The Quarterly Newsletter of Walnut Grove - LENT 2025
- Walnut Grove Cultural Center
- Mar 2
- 1 min read
Updated: Mar 2
Mary, Mother of Fairest Love: Creating the Fairest Love Statue The magnificent statue of Mary, Mother of Fairest Love, sculpted by Cody Joseph Swanson, will soon be traveling to the United States. It will be temporarily housed at St. Mary of the Angels Church in Chicago, until its permanent home in California is ready. As we await the arrival to our country of this stunning image of Our Lady, it can be illuminating to consider all the effort that went into crafting the statue.
Cody, who lives and works in Florence, Italy, with his wife and five children, has extensive experience producing award-winning sculpture for churches and private collections in the US and Europe, including likenesses of both St. Josemaría and Blessed Alvaro del Portillo.
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