Flowers are associated with Our Lady for many good reasons. One of nature’s most familiar manifestations of life and beauty, flowers are used in every culture in decoration and as gifts, a sign of love for any occasion. They have also sparked cultural imagination, collecting a wide variety of symbolic meanings; one can easily look up lists of flowers and the virtues, ideas, etc. they have been used to signify. The most familiar examples include lilies for purity and red roses for love.
