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Relief of Saint Mary with Jesus under a crown, Begijnhof, Amsterdam, The Netherlands #136446437
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Pictured is relief of Saint Mary with infant Jesus on a house in the Begijnhof, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Begijnhof was a beguinage, an architectural complex which was created to house beguines. Beguines were religious women who lived in a lay community and practiced a life of abstinence and devotion to their faith, without taking vows or withdrawing from the world.