Word: protectress
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...associates the mysterious black Madonnas that popped up all over Europe in the Middle Ages and Mexico's "Little Dark One," the Virgin of Guadalupe, with Mary's affinity for the humble. She can muster historical support for the Mary described by spiritual adventurer China Galland--"a protectress who doesn't allow her children to be hunted, tortured, murdered and devoured"--and neo-Jungian Clarissa Pinkola Estes' assertion that "Mary would be a teenage-girl-gang leader" today. If this seems a bit all embracing (since the hunters, torturers and murderers no doubt have their own Marys), that...