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painted many of these. These were on small devotional panels for the homes of the prosperous rather than churches. Several compositions were copied by different artists, probably done from drawings passed around. Drawing on a passage by
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shown travelling an impressive distance. The milk was variously said to have given him wisdom, shown that the Virgin was his mother (and that of mankind generally), or cured an eye infection. In this form the
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and devotion. Milk was seen as "processed blood", and the milk of the Virgin to some extent paralleled the role of the
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Bernard receiving milk from the breast of the Virgin Mary. The scene is a legend which allegedly took place at
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