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A woman in red confronts a winged demon, protecting children in a medieval setting.
Tess Lockhart

Feast Day of the Blessed Mother

A Mothers' Day poem that comments on a medieval tradition from northern Europe that depicted Mary as saving suppli-cants from the devil.  To learn more about this tradition of Mary, see Vanessa R. Corcoran, “Queen of Heaven, Empress of Hell,” Contingent Magazine, 25 April 2020. 


To read the poem, click below.

Feast Day of The Blessed Mother (pdf)

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