Another jewelled bambino

Spotted in San Stefano, Bologna.
To add to the collection assembled here.... I wonder if this one works miracles.

Jewelled madonnas

Now home, I have a chance to assemble photos of jewelled Madonnas ( and a sacred infant). No doubt all are thought to work miracles. The jewels and embellishment don't only add monetary value. Somehow too they embellish the meaning.

• the Madonna in the Russian mission in Jerusalem - here...
  
   

• The jewelled bambino at S. Maria in Aracoeli in Rome - here on my keyring.

And much more gloriously in situ. I love the Santo Bambino: so very grim and determined.

A real miracle-worker - carved, some say, out of wood from the Garden of Gethsemane. Famously described by Charles Dickens in Pictures from Italy, 1846:

"I met this same Bambino in the street a short time afterwards going , in great state, to the house of some sick person. It is taken to all parts of Rome for this purpose, constantly; but, I understand that it is not always as successful as could be wished; for, making its appearance at the bedside of weak and nervous people in extremity, accompanied by a numerous escort, it not unfrequently frightens them to death. It is most popular in cases of childbirth, where it has done such wonders, that if a lady be longer than usual in getting through her difficulties, a messenger is dispatched, with all speed, to solicit the immediate attendance of the Bambino. It is a very valuable property, and much confided in - especially by the religious body to whom it belongs. "

• 3. The Madonna in I Gesuati Church in Venice.