THE BLACK MADONNA AND CHILD..In Indian art KRISHNA literally mean" black."( in early Christian art Jesus is almost invariably represented as a black man) Sir Godfrey Higgins made a thorough investigation of the pictures and images of black infants and Madonnas in the cathedrals of Europe, "in all the Romish countries of Europe, says he, in France,Italy,Germany, the God child as well as his mother are described in their old pictures and statues to be black.The infant God in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white, is himself perfectly black. If the reader doubt my words, he may go to the cathedral at Moulins, the chapel of the Virgin at Loretto,the church of the Annunciata,the church of ST.Lazaro,or the church on ST. Stephen at Genoa, to ST. Francisco at Pisa, the church at Brixen,in the Trol, and to Padua, to the church of ST. Theodore, at Munich, to the church and cathedral at Augsburg, to Rome, and the Borghese chapel Maria Maggiore, to the Pantheon , chapel of ST. Peter. There is scarcely an old church in Italy where some remains of the Worship of the Black virgin and child. Very often the black figures have given way to white ones,and in these cases the black ,as being held sacred, were put into retired places in the churches, but were not destroyed, and are yet to be found there.. When the circumstances has been named to the Romish priest, they have endeavored to disguise the fact, by pretending that the child and his mother became black by the smoke of the candles; how come the candles did not blacken the white of eyes,teeth,and the shirt or the redden lips? There real blackness is not to be questioned for a moment; the presence of a black virgin and child among the white Germans,Swiss,French and Italians!!!!