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This statue was bright metallic blue which was a pretty color, but the white on her gown and veil had a lot of chipping and a large piece was broken off the base. Her hand also needed fixing.

This statue was really weathered and was not made of outdoor material. The face of Mary was so beautiful though, that I repainted it to preserve it a little longer.

This statue was given to me by the church office to mend and they did not want it back. A whole section of the rosary was broken off. I used tiny beads as a guide for making the new ones out of plaster. It was a prize for attendance at CWL meetings and Emma Abell won it.

In September 2023 I repainted the large slate sign so it could be coated with a clear rubber sealant.

Refurbished in Feb. 2024

This Statue belongs to Mary Beauchamp (nee Mann). She received it from her aunt’s estate whose name was also Mary Mann. She was so thrilled when her cousins let her have the statue. It is approx. two and a half feet tall and came from a closed church in Saskatchewan. St. John’s RC country church was 1/2 hour south of Bruno (or 7 miles East of Meacham) near Humboldt Saskatchewan. As I was working on it I was talking to another friend Juanita Hawkins, in Saskatchewan whose family I knew was from Humboldt area. What a wonderful connection to find out her grandparents Dominic and Anna Koob had donated the piece of land where the church was built off his quarter section. Juanita’s aunt Mary Koob and Mary Mann were very close friends for many years. The Koob cousins were thrilled to learn about the story of this statue being restored. The last picture is the statue in it’s current place of reverence in Mary’s bedroom.

Our Lady of Lourdes Feast Day is Feb. 11. The Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14 year old French peasant girl, Saint Bernadette Soubirous, in 1858.

This beautiful little statue of the Holy Family is owned by Al and Carol Fuchs. Mended Jan. 2024

This statue belongs to my son. It was broken in his travels and I mended it for him.

The story of Our Lady of Snows:

Aug 4-5 in the year 358 a childless couple in Rome prayed to Mary asking what to do with their great wealth. That night in a dream the Blessed Virgin told them she wanted a church built and she would show them where the church was to be built by covering the area with snow.

WAY OF THE CROSS

Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, we want to love you with our whole heart, our whole mind and soul. We want to be with you and to follow you. We join you on your way to Golgotha. It is the way of the Cross, the way of suffering and death; but it is also the road to resurrection and life. We carry our burden to your cross and believe in our own rinsing to the life that you have promised.

At the beginning of the station:

We adore you, O Christ, and we praise you.

Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

Meditate on each station.

Before and After pictures of the Stations of the Cross. These were damaged in a fire in Sacred Heart Church, Red Deer, Alberta in 1990. They were stored in crates in Red Deer museum for over 30 years until I was asked if I could refurbish them in 2023. I believe the museum had attempted to possibly clean station 2. Others were less smoky depending on where they were in the church. A lot had broken tops and bottom corners. Only one piece of the top edge was missing on Station 7 and had to be remade. Noses, hands and pieces were chipped off from stacking them in the back alley to quickly get them out of the burning church. I spent the most amount of time on gently cleaning, but sometimes pieces would chip off as I cleaned them as well. I spent on average 6-8 hours per plaque and kept track of over 90 hours throughout the spring and summer of 2023.