Child Jesus as Good Shepherd

This image is part of what is called The Good Shepherd Rockery which typically shows Child Jesus sitting atop a tiered landscape with sheep flocking to drink from a fountain in the middle and Mary Magdalene shown meditating the scriptures inside a cave in the bottom. While the fountain symbolises the biblical message of life giving water i.e. Jesus Christ, Mary Magdalene is used to illuminate the role of a believer practising devotion and repentance. �Developed into an elaborate and complex iconographic form, this image probably to illuminate the biblical concept of the Good Shepherd for the newly converts by the missionaries.