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.