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Caroline Chisholm (1808 – 1877)

6/3/2023

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Painted 2–4 March 2023.
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Rather than fail admirably at trying to condense the epic life of Mrs Chisholm into a few measly paragraphs, I will direct you instead to the Friends of Caroline Chisholm website for a greater insight to her and her works than I could ever attempt to do justice within the confines of this blog.

Link to the Mrs Chisholm website.
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St Peter Chanel, S.M.

1/3/2023

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Painted 23–24, 26 Feb 2023.
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St Peter Chanel is the Protomartyr of Oceania, and Patron of Wallis and Futuna.
He was a French Marist father and religious superior of seven fellow Marist missionaries sent out to the region, having left France on the 24th of December 1836.

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St Pius X + Our Lady of Confidence

1/3/2023

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Painted 21–22 Feb 2023.
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St Pius X was the 259th Pope and successor to St Peter. He was a vehement opponent of what he called "Modernism" inside the theological circles of the Roman Catholic Church.

Something that the church is still fighting with today, what may be bluntly explained as: trying to convert the church to appease the (fickle) world, rather than converting the world to appease (and please) God the Father.

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Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

1/3/2023

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Artwork created 17–19 Feb 2023.
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The Servite Founders were seven rich men (possibly cloth merchants) of Florence, Italy, who all experienced the same vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the feast of the Assumption in 1233 and gave them this message:

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Vocations Director — DIVE! DIVE!

1/3/2023

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Artwork created 15 Feb 2023.
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What I dearly hope not to be doing for the duration of my World Youth Day pilgrimage. And, sadly, I don't think that I'll be alone in those sentiments.
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Prisoner for the Faith

3/2/2023

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Venerable François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận
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Former Coadjutor Archbishop of Sài Gòn (now Hồ Chí Minh City), imprisoned for his faith and family connections by the communist government of Vietnam for 13 years after the fall of Sài Gòn. He was released in 1988 but kept under house arrest. He became exiled in 1991 when he was allowed to visit Rome but never to return to Vietnam. He died in Rome in 2002, aged 74. On the fifth anniversary of his death his cause for sainthood was begun. He was named Venerable by Pope Francis on 4 May 2017, the first step on the long road to being made a Saint by the Catholic Church.
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This painting was the fruit of listening to the introduction and homily by the Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, for the Solemn Pontifical Funeral Mass of George Cardinal Pell (1941–2023) on 2 Feb 2023.

Vincent Cavanagh ~ 3 February 2023
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A 12–Month Social Media Exodus

24/1/2023

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I don’t know if I would dare put this under the inglorious epithet of “New Year’s Resolutions”, this decision was not taken at New Year’s Eve, but it is about the new year of 2023, and I would argue that it is a resolution. Let me elaborate.

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2023 Calendars! Now Available

9/11/2022

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Yippee! It's done.
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That's right folks! After a month's worth of inking and going cross-eyed at various reference photographs, my 2023 Calendar: WYD Lisbon Fundraising edition is now available to buy. Contact can be made via Email or Facebook Messenger.

​Pricings for the calendar are as follows:

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October 2022 Update

18/10/2022

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WYD Lisbon 2023 and a Calendar.
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So, I'm hoping to go to World Youth Day in Lisbon next year (2023) and at the present moment it is almost assuredly going to be a miracle of the Holy Spirit that my local diocese makes it happen/gets us there (long story not worth boring others about).

The pilgrimage route being taken by said diocese is effectively (for this artist at least) a "Grand Tour" through Italy, starting in Venice, then visiting places such as Bologna, Florence and Assisi to name a few, and staying in Rome for 3 nights, before flying to Portugal for the actual beginning of WYD week in Lisbon, at the start of August, 2023.

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Stumbers, Vocations & Fish Barrels

23/8/2022

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Yes, I’m finally back on the blog again. For however long that may be.

And the subject that brought not just me but also Bishop Stumbers and the Dean back? Vocations.

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