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MADONNA of Peace: 'Notre-Dame de la Paix, priez pour nous! ' The Blessed Virgin holds the Baby Jesus in her arms and looks in the sky at the cross with the Sacred Heart of Jesus; in the background a farmer and his oxen engaged in plowing, underlining the desire for times in which men can devote themselves to normal civil activities, and are not forced to serve the army. On the back some parts of the prayer of Pope Benedict XV against the horrors of the war, in which he implores to the 'peaceful King' and to the 'Holy Virgin' to protect and intercede for the end of the world war. Chromolithographic imagery, C. Paillier Edit., Lyon,1915
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MADONNA of Peace: 'Notre-Dame de la Paix, priez pour nous!' The Blessed Virgin holds the Baby Jesus in her arms and looks in the sky at the cross with the Sacred Heart of Jesus; in the background a farmer and his oxen engaged in plowing, underlining the desire for times in which men can devote themselves to normal civil activities, and are not forced to serve the army. On the back some parts of the prayer of Pope Benedict XV against the horrors of the war, in which he implores to the 'peaceful King' and to the 'Holy Virgin' to protect and intercede for the end of the world war. Chromolithographic imagery, C. Paillier Edit., Lyon, 1915