THE BLACK MADONNA OF TINDARI
The Black Madonna of Tindari in Sicily took gentle
vengeance on a woman who came on a pilgrimage, her
baby in her arms.
On climbing the shrine’s wind swept cliff, the woman
exclaimed
“I traveled so far to see somebody blacker than me!”
In an instant, her child disappeared
transported to a spot of dry sand below
in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea
the woman screamed, a boat was sent to rescue her child
she realized that
The Black Madonna of Tindari taught
that racism is a sin.
– Maria Famá