Refugium Peccatorum Madonna
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Luigi Crosio
Luigi Crosio was an Italian painter who lived and worked in Turin, Italy. He died in Turin and is recorded as having been born in Alba, but the town of Aqua a few miles north of Alba claims Crosio was born there....
. It was painted in 1898.
Crosio originally painted the Madonna for the Kuenzil Brothers in Switzerland. In 1964 the Swiss province of the Schoenstatt Sisters
Schoenstatt Movement
The Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt is a Roman Catholic Marian Movement founded in Germany in 1914 by Father Joseph Kentenich. Fr. Kentenich saw the movement as being a means of spiritual renewal in the Catholic Church...
purchased the original painting. It was then also called the Mother Thrice Admirable Madonna.
Sources
- Research on Luigi Crosio http://www.schoenstatt.de/news2005/10/5t1068en-it--mta-crosio.php
- University of Dayton http://campus.udayton.edu/mary//resources/motherthriceadmirable.htm