A Black Madonna or Black Virgin is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with dark skin, especially those created in Europe in the medieval
period or earlier. In this specialized sense "Black Madonna" does not
refer to images of the Virgin Mary portrayed as specifically ethnically black, which are popular in Africa and areas with large black populations, such as Brazil and the United States,
but rather refers to all portrayals of the Virgin Mary with dark skin
that were created during this time period; however, some scholars in the
afrocentric and theosophical community believe that the Black Madonnas
are black because they were a copy of the Egyptian Isis and Horus image
that was both black and African. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna)
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