The World Youth Day Cross and Icon has reached every diocese in Australia.
Religious Icons hold a special place in Christian heritage. This window, in a Hunter valley institution, is modelled, I read, after a mosaic in the Church of Saint Pudentiana in Rome. European imagery and heraldic themes were adoped by the founders of the church in this land.
This depiction of Our Lady of Mercy was assigned by the Pope to the Mercy nuns a century ago.