mercedo wrote today at 12:23 AMBut this statue was Maria with an infant Christ..
Many statues, images or dolls are made in memory of the dead. The image of Cherubim probably shows a baby's sleeping face who was stillborn for some reason. Kokeshi dolls, that imitate the image of a girl's face, are used to eliminate a baby just before it appears from vagina. I want to think those images are an appearance of their hidden repentance.