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I enjoyed your article about icons (Religion, Jan. 4). One of the most well-known icons to the followers of the Catholic faith is that of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, Poland, which depicts Mary and the Infant Jesus.
This famous Polish icon is said to have been painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a plank that originally served as a table for Jesus, his mother Mary and his foster father, Joseph, in their home in Nazareth. Besides being venerated from the purely religious perspective, the Black Madonna has symbolically played a very important role to the Polish nation since the 14th Century.
RICHARD J. WIDERYNSKI, Long Beach
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