1-sided Boy Jesus Seated on a Bench amid Doves Garden Flag

Also available as a two-sided variant for an additional cost. NOTE WELL: This flag has printing only on the front. The back is totally blank. Adding ANYTHING to the backside—a word, an icon, a picture, even a white or solid background color—will trigger a surcharge/an upcharge! + Add a finishing touch to your Prayer Garden with a garden flag from Saints_Aplenty on Zazzle! This flag features the young boy Jesus seated on a stone bench feeding doves. + The scene here is set in an enclosed garden probably at home in Nazareth. From the left, a tree branch or a climbing vine spreads its lush greenery across the top of the image. Smiling faintly, Mary, the Blessed Virgin, wearing a dark red gown and a golden yellowish veil, keeps watch at a distance in the background from the far side of the garden wall. + In the foreground sits Jesus. Jesus is clad in a robe of analogous colors comprised of shades of cyan, violet, and red. The robe is embroidered at the neck and at the ends of its short sleeves with gold thread and tied at the waist with a golden cord. Jesus is feeding the doves bits of bread by hand from the larger piece on his lap. One dove is perched on Jesus’s right hand; a second dove waits his turn on the end of the bench; and, a third flies in to join ‘the flock’. In Christianity, white doves convey many meanings: they symbolize purity, innocence, holiness, and peacefulness as well as Christians themselves. + Image Credit (M 056): Antique image in chromolithography captioned in German “Wo du, mein Jesus, bist, / Maria und die Anschuld ist” [“Where You, my Jesus, are, / Mary and Innocence is”], printed in Germany, original publisher unknown, early 20th century, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. The original image appears on a small format holy card probably meant for children and measures only about 1.77 in. x 3.15 in. (or 4.5 cm. x 8 cm.).