1-sided Young Jesus, Wheat Stalks, and Grape Vines Garden Flag

Welcome guests to your Prayer Garden with a garden flag from Saints_Aplenty on Zazzle! This flag features Jesus standing between wheat stalks and grape vines. + The scene here takes place in a garden enclosed by a stone wall probably at Jesus’s home in Nazareth. A pre-teen Jesus with a cruciform halo is clad in a long, wide-sleeved pink robe tied with a blue sash. He stands on the path in front of the garden’s wooden gate. As a babe and even as a youth, Jesus is often depicted in the art of yesteryear wearing pink. While we associate pink with girls and blue with boys, the reverse was once the custom. As a pastel version of red, pink was once considered a more masculine color than blue. And, red is the color most often associated with the adult Jesus symbolizing His all-encompassing love for mankind, His sacrifice of Himself on the Cross, and His blood shed for our redemption. The robe’s neckline is embellished with red beads or gemstones. + Jesus, arms opened wide, is flanked with stalks of wheat on the left and grape vines on the right. The plants are symbolic of the Eucharist: the makings of the bread and wine that constitute its outward signs. Christ’s pose calls to mind the words instituting the sacrament of Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday: “This is My Body… This is My Blood”. The association is made only that much closer by Jesus actually touching a stalk of wheat and a bunch of grapes. + Image Credit (MH 005): Antique image in chromolithography captioned in German as “O Christ, was könnt ich mehr dir geben / Als Brot and Wein_zum ew’gen Leben!” [“O Christ, what more can I give you / than bread and wine for eternal Life!”] from a late 19th-early 20th century devotional print (Series No. 2151), originally published by Max Hirmer, Munich, Germany, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera.