This contribution to the panel examines Early Modern visual and written culture that envisioned the Christian Godhead in maternal images and traces how such gendered notions of God shaped Early Modern Masculinities. To do so, the paper will view depictions of a breastfeeding Christ or as a mother hen together with descriptions of Early Modern men who evoked the same maternal imagery in characterising their practices as religious care givers. In discussing this material, the paper sheds light on a new aspect of how depictions of the Divine could become models for Early Modern gender roles. It first highlights the Maternal's unique position among gendered qualities that were applied to members of different sex, as one that enriched rather than condemned Masculinities (other than f.i. the Effeminate). Second, by introducing artworks both from Europe and the Iberian colonies, the paper widens the scope of previous research into the topic of God as Mother considerably. As a result, it will show how religious belief shaped Masculinities - of Christ, his Early Modern followers, and in their transcultural negotiations