SAINT FRANCIS - STATUE - WOOD crocifisso muro argento legno With absolute love and spiritual

With absolute love and spiritual devotion

The picture was created with great care given to detail

This statue of Ferruzzi’s “Madonnina” — commonly known as “Madonna of the Streets” — celebrates the sacred status of maternity by representing Madonna with Child Jesus

What emerges is the profile of an Institution in many ways unique on the international cultural scene

used to help pilgrims cross rough rivers

SAINT FRANCIS - STATUE - WOOD crocifisso muro argento legno With absolute love and spiritualThis hand painted wooden St Francis statue depicts the Assisian saint wearing his brown religious tunic belted with a cord. Francis of Assisi is the Patron Saint of ecology and animals, which is why he is represented holding a dove, a Christian symbol of peace and the Holy Spirit.