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The Vatican will dedicate a new statue of the patron saint of Korea, St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, in St. Peter’s Basilica this Saturday. Born in 1821, Saint Tae-gŏn was the first native Korean ...
Estimating the difficulty of restoring the 700-year-old wooden statue of a crucified Christ for St. Augustine Cathedral was a leap of faith for Matilde Rubio and Tim Lewis.
Following Vatican’s approval, the statue of the patron saint of Korea was installed at the Saint Peter’s Basilica on September 16, the anniversary of his beheading by the Korean Joseon Dynasty.
A postcard, circa 1950, depicts Bergen Square in Jersey City, with the Peter Stuyvesant statue in the lower right corner. One does not have to be an admirer of Peter Stuyvesant, the last director ...
Restorationist Botches 16th-Century Spanish Statue of Saint Reports indicate a local priest hired an art teacher to restore the polychromatic wooden statue, with cartoonish results ...
Schmalz’s bronze statue — located near the Showers for the Poor and the Mother of Mercy Clinic in the colonnade of St. Peter’s Square — depicts a man seated on a bench “who appears to be ...
LONDON — A 16th-century wooden statue of St. George, venerated as a Christian martyr who killed a dragon to rescue a Libyan king’s daughter, has been unrestored in Spain to all its slightly ...
Three wooden statues on the Saint John waterfront, honouring people from its past as a fought-over French outpost, have become a safety hazard and will be removed.
In the late 1960s, Kevin Harrington, a 13-year-old parishioner of St. Lawrence's, was praying in front of the statue of St. Therese. "I detected the scent of roses," said Harrington.
The Vatican will dedicate a new statue of the patron saint of Korea, St. Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, at St. Peter’s Basilica this Saturday. Born in 1821, Kim was the first native Korean priest and one ...