A Sword Will Pierce
Your Own Soul Too
The Life of Mary and
the Passion of Christ
in the Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer
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Christ Taking Leave of His Mother,
c. 1505
Mary feels the sword’s first piercing
as her son Jesus blesses in divine determination
in departing to suffer and die.
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: Albrecht Dürer :: Life of Mary :: Small Passion :
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