Call me shallow and too much enamored of a pretty face
but where it is not positively known, I like to pretend that certain images really do represent what certain saints looked like. For example, there is a specific statue of Joan of Arc in Versailles, and Alexis Boutet De Monvel’s childrens book on joan in which her depiction resembles closely the Joan statue in Versailles, which I greatly prefer as my image of Joan.
Whatever the negative aspect, it seems greatly to help me to empathise with them and grow to love them, and through them, the church itself.
So, anyway, When Mother Angelica and the Nuns pray the rosary on EWTN, at the end the camera always fades to this statue of Mary, a close up of her face.
I am quite taken with it because that is exactly what I fancifully imagined Mary would look like- if I got to decide what she looked like - before I ever saw it !
So, does anyone know where exactly that statue is?
( I do know that a picture of it is part of the cover art on the audio cd. )
I’ve got a picture of St Joseph and the Infant Jesus on my wall that I’ve loved ever since the second I saw it. It took a little while to figure out why.
St Joseph bears more than a passing resemblance to my own father and the infant, believe it or not, somewhat resembles my older sister when she was a young golden-curled cherub
We are having some trouble selling our property, so last week my mother - who is Baptist - buried St. Joseph next to the for sale sighn. Maybe I’ll make her Catholic yet? But I doubt it.
Anyway, I have been thinking about him a lot lately, and for reasons you mentioned in an earlier post, having to play celibate mate to Gods family arrangements, the fuss and bother of having to flee to Egypt, etc… A typical invisible, long-suffering, little guy - and all the more remarkable and admirable for it.
I’d have to see the vid again to make sure, but it’s probably the statue at the front left of the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament here in Cullman County.
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and the infant, believe it or not, somewhat resembles my older sister when she was a young golden-curled cherub 
