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I am surprised no one has made a reference in this thread to this well-known icon and its explanation:
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There are many versions of this icon, but they all have the same elements.
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The Christ child looks over His shoulder at the vision of angels carrying the implements of His crucifixion, and the sandal falling off of His right foot shows us that He has come running to His mother, leaping into her arms, to seek refuge from the hovering menace of the reminders of His passion in the future. He clings to her hand and draws close for protection from His Mother of Perpetual Help. Meanwhile her eyes are fixed on us, to whom she offers this same protection, if we would but seek her aid and protection. We are given this picture of Our Lord in His early childhood to help us understand that He knew all along what He would one day face, and His reaction to this reality, since He was entirely human (and at the same time entirely divine) He could not have had no emotional reaction to this stark reality. He knew what He would one day have to suffer and this knowledge alone could not but evoke a human reaction from Him in a universally human sense. Call this reaction what you will, but do not deny its existence.