What Catholics represent the color blue in the images of Mary?
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- Catholics: If you wear a scapular (eg for the Blue Army) I am under the protection of Mary?
- And do Orthodox Christians and Catholics Bow Before the images of Jesus, Mary and other saints?
- Catholics regularly bow down to idols / icons / images of Jesus / Mary / apostles, kissing the feet Ofstatues/praying4them?
- Catholics, what are your thoughts on this Independence Day post about Mary?
- Did you know that the Roman Catholic images of Mary and the serpent under her feet is on the former?
Gold represents the radiance of the sky red life. Blue is the color of life, white is the uncreated essence of God, is only used for resurrection and transfiguration of Christ. If you look at the icons of Jesus and Mary: Jesus has a blue coat red garment (God became man) and Mary has a blue underwear with a red over clothing (so that humans could reach be like God), this is the way the doctrine of deification is taught by the iconography.
It does not really mean anything - it's just a traditional way of representing Mary. Blue might have seemed a good choice because it is the color of the sky, reminiscent of the heavens. Also in ancient mosaics of blue and blue paint is made with floor to lapis lazuli. Lapis lazuli is a rare stone that actually comes from Afghanistan. It was beautiful and expensive and difficult to places like Greece and Italy. So in these days not only used blue paint or blue mosaic pieces for anything - you would use to describe the very special things - like Mary.
The One Bleak?
Blue I think they might have for royalty?