Il culto delle Madonne nere

Some famous sanctuaries were born and developed around an image of the black Madonna. A sort of mystery has veiled, since the Middle Ages, the identity of these Virgins, supernal and at the same time chameleon-like. As soon as a believer finds himself in front of them, he perceives the deeply secret root of their figure and inevitably comes across enigmas to decipher. Am I a face never truly understood or a mask (mystery in full light for the initiated)? How to penetrate beyond the web of writings and chromatic diversity? These pages develop a counterpoint of hypotheses, not dedicated to specialists, but rather to be understood as a chat between clueless and curious friends, without hermeneutical pretensions. They are the parameters for a search into the true "black heart" of popular religiosity; they bring to light unexpected paths that turn towards the first Great Mothers; they constitute the "introibo" to a topic to be approached with precaution.