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| Cristian Icon > The Virgin > Symbolic and dogmatic meaning of the compositions > Our Lady and Christ the Child > Iconographic types of Our Lady with the Child The iconography of the Virgin of Tenderness (Glykophilousa, "Umilenije") (4) The meaning of this iconographic type is demonstration of the Incarnation of Christ, the sacrificial predestination of the Child and the union in love of the Virgin-Church with Christ its head.
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