Madonna and Child Journal - Loreto Embroidery Spiral Notebook Bags We've wanted to offer it

We've wanted to offer it since we first saw it years ago

but it's important to remember that she was a Saint

and we all kneel at the end of Sunday Mass and pray it as a congregation

The watercolor version from 1900 we show was an earlier version or perhaps a study for this masterpiece

I painted this picture on paper in acrylics and colored pencil

Madonna and Child Journal - Loreto Embroidery Spiral Notebook Bags We've wanted to offer itThis exquisite piece, Sanctus Dei Genitrix, is one of the Loreto Embroideries, a series of breathtaking embroideries from the early 1900s. This is perhaps our favorite of the collection, though they are all beautiful. The original drawings, based on the Litany of Loreto, are the work of Ezio Anichini, an Italian artist who did much Catholic art. It is not known who did the stitching. The embroideries were a gift to an elderly nun, who sent them to the