The Black Madonna

The Black Madonna played a big part in this book. She was the picture that August put on all the honey jars so I decided to look up what it is.
A Black Madonna is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with dark skin, especially those created in Europe in the medieval period or earlier. In this sense "Black Madonna" does not apply to images of the Virgin Mary portrayed as explicitly black African, which are popular in Africa and areas with large black populations, such as Brazil and the United States. So that is what a Black Madonna is. (the picture above is a Black Madonna)