Virgin and child

During the early 1980s my mother knew two hermits who lived in a caravan in the vicinity of a hermitage near Wolverton Manor on the Isle of Wight. They passed on this drawing to my mother. It shows an image of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus that spontaneously appeared and remained for two months on the ceiling of the hermitage. In religious parlance, this is an acheiropoieton, a simulacrum “made without hands”.

Richard Muirhead By email