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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 4399577, member: 17332&quot;]This cameo has been in my collection for years. It took me a while to figure out the subject.&nbsp; The cameo is after a painting in the south nave of the St. Stephen&#039;s Basilica in Budapest, Hungary. Painted by Gyula Benczúr, it is called, &quot;St. Stephen offering the Crown to Mary&quot;. It is a symbolic scene where King Stephen, left without a successor after the death of his son, offers his country and crown to the Virgin Mary. Legend holds that Mary appeared to Stephen in a dream, promising to protect the young Hungarian Christian state. Stephen was the first King of Hungary and a convert to Christianity.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]371842[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]371843[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]371845[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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