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The term Black Madonna or Black Virgin tends to refer to statues or paintings in Western of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the , where both figures are depicted with dark skin. The Jungian scholar, San Begg published a study of Black Virgins and their possible pagan origins. Examples of the Black Madonna can be found both in and Orthodox countries.

The paintings are usually , which are in origin or style, some of which were produced in 13th or 14th-century Italy. Other examples from the , or , mainly and , are even older. Statues are often made of wood but are occasionally made of stone, painted, and up to tall. They fall into two main groups: free-standing upright figures or seated figures on a throne. About 400–500 Black Madonnas have been recorded in Europe, with the number related to how they are classified. There are at least 180 Vierges Noires in alone. There are hundreds of copies made since the medieval era. Some are displayed in museums, but most are in churches or shrines and are venerated by believers. Some are associated with and attract substantial numbers of .

Black Madonnas come in different forms. Speculations behind the basis of the dark hue of each individual icon or statue vary greatly and some have been controversial. Explanations range from the Madonnas being made from dark wood, Madonnas that have turned darker over time, due to factors such as aging or candle smoke, to a study by scholar into the potential pagan origins of the cult of the black Madonna and child or the intent to reflect the darker-skinned populations indigenous to certain parts of the world.

(2025). 9781630514419, Chiron Publications. .
Another suggestion is that dark-skinned representations of pre-Christian deities were re-envisioned as the Madonna and child.

Studies and research
Research into the Black Madonna phenomenon is limited. Begg links the refrain from the Song of Solomon, “I am black, and I am beautiful” to the Queen of Sheba. Recently, however, interest in this subject has gathered more momentum.

Important early studies of dark-skinned holy images in France were by Camille Flammarion (1888), L'Atmosphère : Météorologie populaire (1888), édition avec gravures fr. Marie Durand-Lefebvre (1937), Emile Saillens (1945), and Jacques Huynen (1972).

The first notable study in English of the origin and meaning of the Black Madonnas appears to have been presented by Leonard Moss at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on December 28, 1952. Moss divided the images into three categories: (1) dark brown or black Madonnas with physiognomy and skin pigmentation matching that of the indigenous population; (2) various art forms that have turned black as a result of certain physical factors such as deterioration of lead-based pigments, accumulated smoke from the use of votive candles, and accumulation of grime over the ages, and (3) miracle-worker Madonnas, the focus of the study, Black Madonnas found in areas of a and, therefore, not a reflection of the current population's skin colour.

In the cathedral at , there were two Black Madonnas: Notre Dame de Pilar, a 1508 dark walnut copy of a 13th-century silver Madonna, standing atop a high pillar, surrounded by candles; and Notre Dame de Sous-Terre, a replica of an original destroyed during the French Revolution. Restoration work on the cathedral resulted in the painting in 2014 of Notre Dame de Pilar, to reflect an earlier 19th-century painted style. The statue is no longer a "Black Madonna" and the restoration was severely criticized for wiping away the past. Filler, Martin "A Scandalous Makeover at Chartres", The New York Review of Books, December 14, 2014 Ramm, Benjamin. "A Controversial Restoration That Wipes Away the Past", The New York Times, September 1, 2017

Some scholars have chosen to explore the significance of the dark-skinned complexion to pilgrims and worshippers rather than focusing on whether this depiction was intentional. By virtue of their unusual presence, the Black Madonnas have sometimes acted to make their shrines revered pilgrimage sites. attributes the importance of the dark-skinned depiction to its connection with authenticity. The reason for this connection is the perceived age of the figures.

List of Black Madonnas
Africa

Asia
Japan
  • , Yamagata Prefecture: the Tenshudō Catholic Church features a Black Madonna statue from France dating to the .

The Philippines

India

Turkey
  • Trabzon: Sümela Monastery

Europe
Austria

Belgium
  • , "Our Lady of Regla"
  • : "De Zwerte Lieve Vrouwe", St. Catherine Church
  • Halle (Flemish Brabant) : Sint-Martinusbasiliek
  • Liège: La Vierge Noire d'Outremeuse,
  • Lier: Onze Lieve Vrouw ter Gratiën
  • Scherpenheuvel-Zichem: Our Lady of Scherpenheuvel
  • : Our Lady of Flanders in Tournai Cathedral
  • : "Black Virgin of the Recollects", Notre-Dame des Récollets Church,
  • : (Notre-Dame de Walcourt)

Croatia

Czech Republic
TROJA CHATEAU chapel- original "Montserrat Madonna" from Old Town Byzantine building (pg.100 of Martin Krummholz ISBN 978-80-7010-131-5)

France
  • , (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame des Graces,
  • : (Notre-Dame des Champs)
  • (): Notre-Dame des Neiges
  • : Our Lady of Beaune
  • Besançon: Our Lady de Gray
  • Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, (Puy-de-Dôme): Saint-André Church, Notre-Dame de Vassivière
  • (): 13th century
  • , (): crypt of the Cathedral of Chartres, Notre-Dame-de-Sous-Terre
  • , (Puy-de-Dôme)
  • : the Black Virgin of Cusset
  • , (Côte-d'Or): Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon
  • Douvres-la-Délivrande, Basilique Notre-Dame de la Délivrande, "Notre-Dame de la Délivrande"
  • , (Nord) : Chapelle des Dunes
  • , (Côtes-d'Armor): Basilica of Notre Dame de Bon Secours.
  • La Chapelle-Geneste, (Haute-Loire: Notre Dame de La Chapelle Geneste
  • (): , statue of 1848
  • ,(Seine-Maritime): statue near the (Abbaye de Graville)
  • : In 1254 when passing through on his return from the Holy Land Saint Louis IX of France gave the cathedral an ebony image of the Blessed Virgin clothed in gold brocade (Notre-Dame du Puy). It was destroyed during the Revolution, but replaced at the Restoration with a copy that continues to be venerated.
  • Liesse-Notre-Dame (): Notre-Dame de Liesse, statue destroyed in 1793, copy of 1857
  • (): Sainte Catherine d'Alexandrie á Limeuil. This XVII century statue was broken and thrown in the Dordogne during the French Wars of Religion (1562 - 1598) but recovered and returned to the church.
  • , (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame-de-Confession, Abbey of St. Victor; Notre-Dame d'Huveaune, Saint-Giniez Church
  • Mauriac, : Notre Dame des Miracles
  • Mende (Lozère) : (Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende)
  • , (): St. Michel Church
  • (Corrèze):
  • : Notre-Dame de Vauclair
  • Mont-Saint-Michel: Notre-Dame du Mont-Tombe
  • ():
  • , (Neuilly-sur-Seine): Notre-Dame de Bonne Délivrance, in the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Thomas of Villanova Mariancalendar.org
  • (Finistère): Eglise de Guéodet, nommée encore Notre-Dame-de-la-Cité
  • , (Puy-de-Dôme): Notre-Dame du Marthuret
  • , (Lot): Our Lady of Rocamadour
  • Saint-Germain-Laval: Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Baffy
  • Sainte Marie (Réunion) :
  • Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer () Avignon: Annual Roma and festival celebrating , the patron saint of the
  • (): statue of the 12th century
  • , (Bouches-du-Rhône): Notre-Dame du Château
  • Thuret, (Puy-de-Dôme)
  • : The basilica Notre-Dame de la Daurade in , France had housed the shrine of a Black Madonna. The original icon was stolen in the fifteenth century, and its first replacement was burned by Revolutionaries in 1799 on the Place du Capitole. The icon presented today is an 1807 copy of the fifteenth century Madonna. Blackened by the hosts of candles, the second Madonna was known from the sixteenth century as Our Lady La Noire Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, Norman Davies
  • Tournemire, Château d'Anjony, Our Lady of Anjony
  • Vaison-la-Romaine (): statue on a hill
  • (): Saint-Blaise Church

Germany
  • Altötting (): Gnadenkapelle (Chapel of the Miraculous Image)
  • Beilstein (Rhineland-Palatinate): Karmeliterkirche St. Joseph
  • (North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • Düsseldorf-Benrath (North Rhine-Westphalia): Pfarrkirche St. Cäcilia
  • Hirschberg an der Bergstraße (Baden-Württemberg): Wallfahrtskirche St. Johannes Baptist
  • Schloss Hohenstein, ()
  • Köln (Nord Rhein Westfalen): St. Maria in der Kupfergasse
  • Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate): ()
  • (Baden-Württemberg): Schlosskirche St. Marien
  • (): Theatine Church; St. Boniface's Abbey
  • (Baden-Württemberg): Einsiedelner Kapelle
  • (): Regensburg Cathedral
  • (Rhineland-Palatinate): Kapelle Schwarze Madonna
  • Spabrücken (Rhineland-Palatinate)
  • Stetten ob Lontal, (Baden-Württemberg)
  • in Boppard-Herschwiesen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
  • Wipperfürth (North Rhine-Westphalia): St. Johannes, Kreuzberg
  • Wuppertal-Beyenburg (North Rhine-Westphalia)

Greece
  • Hidden church of the Black Madonna, ,

Hungary
  • Cathedral Basilica of Eger: Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception

Ireland
  • (): Our Lady of Dublin in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church

Italy

Kosovo
  • Vitina-: Church of the Black Madonna, where is believed to have heard her calling.

Lithuania
  • Aušros vartai: Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
  • Our Lady of Šiluva: Our Lady of the Pine Woods

Luxembourg

Macedonia
  • Kališta, Monastery: Madonna icon in the Nativity of Our Most Holy Mother of God church
  • Ohrid, Church: Madonna with the child

Malta
  • Ħamrun: Our Lady of Atoċja, a medieval painting brought to by a merchant in the year 1630, depicting a statue found in Atocha, a parish in , , and widely known as Il-Madonna tas-Samra. (This can mean 'tanned Madonna', 'brown Madonna', or 'Madonna of '.)

Poland
  • Częstochowa: Our Lady of Czestochowa
    • In the United States, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania houses a reproduction of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa. A second shrine to Our Lady of Częstochowa is located near Eureka, Missouri.
    • In there are two reproductions of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa: One in St. Peter's Church in , and another in the Abbey of the Dormition in .
  • Głogówek: Our Lady of Loretto

Portugal
  • Nazaré (): Sanctuary of Our Lady of Nazaré; see: the legend of Nazaré

Romania

Russia
  • (): Theotokos of St. Theodore also known as Our Lady of St. Theodore (Федоровская Богоматерь), in Theophany Monastery
  • Our Lady of Wladimir, from the 12th century
  • Black Virgin of Taganrog, Taganrog Old Cemetery

Serbia
  • : Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church

Slovenia
  • Koprivna, Črna na Koroškem: St. Anne's Church, Koprivna – the altar of Black Madonna

Spain
  • Andújar (Province of Jaén): Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza (Our Lady of Cabeza), named after the mountain, Cerro de la Cabeza or Cerro de Cabezo.
  • (Province of Cádiz): la Virgen de Regla or Nuestra Señora de Regla (Our Lady of Regla or the Virgin of Regla), considered by some as the custodian of the Rule of Saint Augustine
  • Coria (Province of Cáceres): Virgen de Argeme (Our Lady of Argeme)
  • El Puerto de Santa María (Province of Cádiz): Virgen de los Milagros (The Virgin of the Miracles)
  • Guadalupe (Province of Cáceres): Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe, Extremadura)
  • Jerez de la Frontera (Province of Cádiz): Nuestra Señora de la Merced (Our Lady Of Mercy)
  • (Community of Madrid): Nuestra Señora de Atocha (Our Lady of Atocha)
  • , (): Mare de Déu de Lluc (Our Lady of Lluc), Lluc Monastery
  • Monistrol de Montserrat (): Mare de Déu de Montserrat (Virgin of Montserrat) or "La Moreneta" in the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat
  • (Province of León): Virgen de la Encina (Our Lady of the Holm Oak)
  • (Province of Salamanca): Virgen de la Peña de Francia (The Virgin of France's Rock, named after the local mountain called Peña de Francia)
  • Santiago de Compostela (Galicia): A replica of "La Moreneta"
  • Rianxo (Galicia): Virgen de Guadalupe
  • (): Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Virgin of Candelaria), or "La Morenita"
  • Toledo (Province of Toledo): Virgen Morena (), statue of La Esclavitud de Nuestra Señora del Sagrario in the Cathedral of Toledo (Catedral Primada de Santa María) (The Enslavement of Our Lady of the Tabernacle)
  • (Huesca): Our Lady of Torreciudad

Sweden
  • Attached to a marble pillar in the crypt: Black madonna with child
  • , Skee, Bohuslän former Norwegian province. Black madonna with beheaded child [11]

Switzerland
  • (Canton of Schwyz): Our Lady of the Hermits
    • In the United States, a reproduction of Our Lady of the Hermits was gifted to the St. Meinrad Archabbey located in St. Meinrad, Indiana
  • , Valle Verzasca (): Santa Maria Loretana
  • (Canton of Zürich): Catholic Church Saint Francis of Assisi
  • Metzerlen-Mariastein (Canton of Solothurn):
  • ():
  • (): Chiesa di Santa Maria di Loreto

Ukraine

United Kingdom
  • St. Mary Willesden (Our Lady of Willesden): The original Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden.
  • Our Lady of Częstochowa (Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Nottingham)

North America
Costa Rica
  • Cartago, : Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles (Our Lady of the Angels Basilica)

Cuba

Mexico

Trinidad and Tobago

United States
  • Pacific, Missouri: Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos
  • Doylestown, Pennsylvania: National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
  • Jersey City, New Jersey: Our Lady of Czestochowa
  • New York City, New York: Cathedral of St. John the Divine
  • New York City, New York: Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
  • , Michigan: Shrine of the Black Madonna Church
  • , Illinois: Monastery of the Holy Cross
  • Westport, Connecticut: [14] Church of the Assumption
  • Cheektowaga, New York: [15] Our Lady of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Church
  • North Tonawanda, New York: [16] Our Lady of Czestochowa Church

Canada
  • Windsor, Ontario -Black Madonna chapel located at Italian banquet hall Ciociaro club.

South America
Brazil
  • , São Paulo: Our Lady of Aparecida or Our Lady Appeared (Nossa Senhora Aparecida or Nossa Senhora da Conceição Aparecida) in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida

Chile

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