Broom and board.

Eric at Square Zero, a formerly-Roman and now-Byzantine Catholic, points out the peculiarly Western Catholic charms of a couple of statues of Mary and Joseph.

Here is a touching little domestic scene of the Holy Family—and it struck me that this is the sort of thing one would never expect to see in an icon. Not that there aren’t elements of domestic tenderness in icons—one thinks of the sandle dangling from the foot of infant Jesus in the icon Panagia “Formidable Protection” (or Our Lady of Perpetual Help)—but they are rendered in a subtlely symbolic way, nothing so mundane as a broom. It is hard to imagine a broom in the iconic hands of the Theotokos.

I like the picture of the sandal in the icon, which Eric provides.

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