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Pieta'

A representation of the Virgin Mary embracing the dead body of her Son. Filial or parental love was called piety by the Romans. (See Pious.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Pietists
Piers Plowman
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