Label TextThe Nuestra Senora de los Dolores, which shows a sorrowful Mary mourning her Son's death, is one of the most important images in Christendom. She generally appears with her head covered in a black cloth, hands clasped, and with tears streaming down her face. She is usually painted with at least one dagger at her breast, an allusion to Luke 2:35, where Simeon prophesises that a sword will pierce her heart as a display of grief. This reverse painting on glass includes seven daggers, symbolizing the seven sorrows that afflicted Mary during her son's life. The first of these sorrows was Christ's circumcision and the last was his crucifixion.