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| Icons & Sculptures |
| Holy Face Icon |
| San Damiano Crucifix Cross of St. Francis of Assisi |
| Dove Sculpture |
The Pieta Sometimes call the “13 th Station”, the Pieta is most commonly known as an artistic representation of the dead Christ in His mother's arms. The St. Joseph , Husband of Mary, Pieta is made of bronze and weighs approximately 1,800 pounds. It is an exact (including size) replica of the famous work of art by Michelangelo now in St. Peter's Basilica. The Roman virtue of love and reverence for parents/children was called pietas (piety). Michelangelo, says Irving Stone in The Agony and the Ecstasy, always supervised the cutting of his own blocks of marble from the quarries at Carrara . He carved the Pieta out of a single block of Carrara marble, and he did this in part because he believed that the sculpture he envisioned lay trapped inside the stone, and his task as sculptor was to remove the excess stone to reveal the Pieta or the David that lay within.
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