Charity

Cathedral of St. Anastasia, Zadar, Croatia

This is a detail from the Altar of the Souls in Purgatory in the cathedral. The traditional iconography identifies the personified Charity by an infant at her breast. Usually there are one or two other infants cuddling up to her.

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Photographed at the cathedral by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.