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(Stadt Herten) Kr. Recklinghausen Nordrhein-Westfalen Marktplatz |
SchutzmantelmadonnaVirgin of Mercy |
Hilde Schürk-Frisch
1978 |
 
Sculpture of a Schutzmantelmadonna - St. Mary protecting a group of children under her cloak. Hilde Schürk-Frisch placed not only children, but the whole of creation with dog, rooster, pig and the plant world under protection of the cloak.
On the back of the cloak is inscribed: "unter deinen schutz und schirm flienen wir" (beneath thy compassion, we take refuge), the first line of the 3rd century Christian hymn and prayer Sub tuum praesidium.
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