What's a Madonna?

Over lunch today I was talking with my Nana about an 80th birthday party she went to last night for a widowed neighbour of my grandparents. He happens to be Roman Catholic and very involved in the parish here. My grandparents belong to the Reformed Church. (Just a little essential background to this little anecdote).

Anyways, she said that they had played an ice-breaker at the dinner where they were given a piece of paper with a list of various descriptions on it and you had to find one person who fit each description. My Nana said that she had a really hard time with the game because she didn't understand all the descriptions. "For instance," she told me "I had no idea what a Madonna was. Do you know what a Madonna is? I was supposed to find someone wearing a Madonna." I just smiled and explained to her that it was an image of Mary and that she would have probably found many of the elderly Catholic ladies there wearing a little medal with a Madonna on it. "Oh," she said.

I guess with her failing vision she hasn't noticed the miraculous medal I wear. ;-)