This week's new Marian image for the month of May from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection was made in the Karakashian family ceramics workshop in Jerusalem. The Madonna on this glazed tile conforms to the traditional iconographic prototype of the Virgin Who Shows the Way, where Mary points to the Christ Child on her lap, who holds the scroll of his divine authority. It is hand-painted in the style of 18th century tiles, decorating the walls of the Armenian Cathedral of St. James in the Old Town of Jerusalem, made by Armenian potters from Kutahya, a major ceramics center of the Ottoman Empire. This new image on the Virgin Mary on tile can be found on the Armenian Ceramics page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)