The sculpture is from the Church of the Visitation at Ein Karem. The courtyard wall is covered with the words of The Magnificat (Luke 1:46-56) in 42 different languages.
The pictures were taken during my sabbatical in 2008.
Doug Chaplin has posted an interesting comment about Joseph in Luke’s infancy narrative.
I was there on pilgrimage last October. I think the statue of Mary and Elizabeth is particularly moving, with Mary's pregancny just suggested and Elizabeth's at a more obvious stage. In my imagination Elizabeth was a very significant person for Mary, perhaps more of a mother to Mary when she most needed a mother's understanding?
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