Our Lady of Consolation — Devotional Titles — Marian Devotion Downloadable 8k Digital Illustration

"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."
Luke 2:51

During the 4th century, Saint Monica was heartbroken to witness her son Augustine reject his faith for a life of hedonism. Her years of persistent weeping over his wandering were answered by an apparition of Mary, who handed Monica her own leather belt as a girdle of support. In this devotion, Mary is viewed as a mother who shares in the hardships of her children, offering peace in times of sorrow, illness, or loneliness. Rendered in amate ficus bark paper with sun-dried adobe clay, amate paper-making tradition the Otomi people of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica.