Tagged: Altötting

“J. A. Rogers then quotes Godfrey Higgins’ Anacalypsis: ‘In all the Romish countries of Europe, in France, Italy, Germany, etc., the God, Christ, as well as his Mother is described in the old pictures to be black. The infant God in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white, is, himself, perfectly black….’ These icons and statues receive the highest veneration from religious devotees. Hundreds of thousands make the annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Black Madonna at Alt-Otting in West Germany. Not only is this shrine and others like it Black in color but many of the wooden stone images dating as far back as 800 to 1,000 years or more are ‘completely Negro’ in features. Says Rogers: ‘The faces of these images are black and of Negroid type, particularly the Madonnas of Constuchan in Tolers and the Mother of God statue in Alto-Otting in Bavaria near Munich, which was brought from Palestine more than 1,000 years ago by Von Heiligers Lande.'”

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A picture of the Black Madonna in  Altötting, Germany.

Source: William Mosley, What Color Was Jesus, pg. 17. 1987. (citing J. A. Rogers. Sex & Race Vol. 1. pg. 274, 275. 1952).