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In 2002 the Vatican Post Office issues ten stamps based on the Madonnas located in St. Peter's Basilica. Which stamp has a story of a sacrilegious defacement behind it?

   Our Lady of Women in Labor
   Our Lady of the Slap
   Our Lady of Deesis
   Our Lady of Fever

Your answer was: Our Lady of the Slap.
You are correct!!


Answer: From northern Italy comes this story:

"The ancient statue of our Lady of the thirteenth century is made from a single piece of white marble. On the left cheek, she has a large livid stain, as if she had received a strong slap. An ancient tradition states that in 1200 a certain drinker and scandalous blasphemer, being left without the possibility of satisfying his passion, with a sacrilegious gesture struck the Madonna with a strong slap on the left cheek. Afterwards, the sign remained indelible in the sacred image." (source: https://immaculate.one/mary-of-the-day-aprile-21-our-lady-of-the-slap-vercelli-piedmont-northern-italy)

 
Our Lady of
the Slap
  

Our Lady of
Women in Labor
Our Lady With
People Praying
Our Lady at the
Tomb of Pius XII

Our Lady of
the Fever
Mary Immaculate
Our Lady Help
of Christians

The Virgin of
the Deesis
L'Addolorata
Presentation of Mary
at the Temple
St. Peter's Basilics Madonnas
Scott # 1204-1213 (2002)