Mazzolini Art Craft Blog
Custom carved wood Coesfeld cross
We worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz on a custom, carved wood cross. This religious wood carving is a Coesfeld cross for Notre Dame Academy in Park Hills, Kentucky. The design is based loosely on the original Coesfeld cross, which was carved in the 14th...
“They helped us imagine what angels look like”: The role artists can play in the Church in dark times
Loyola Marymount University, a Los Angeles-based Catholic university rooted in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions, is hosting an art exhibit on a surprising topic: the Church’s sex abuse scandal. Artist Tricia McKillen, a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, told...
“May the Lord help us to imitate their example”: Pope Francis canonizes seven
On October 14, Pope Francis canonized seven new saints, including Pope Paul VI, who led the Church from 1963 to 1978, and Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980. Brief biographies of them and the other new saints are available...
“Jesus and the Children” marble statue for church in Wickliffe, Ohio
In 2016, a man driving near Our Lady of Mount Carmel church in Wickliffe, Ohio suffered a medical episode that caused him to drive over the curb at high speed and strike the base of a marble statue of Christ and two children. “No one, not even the driver, was injured...
“The humble craftsman of Nazareth”: St. Joseph the Worker bronze statue
St. Joseph, husband of Mary and foster father of Jesus, has been honored with two feast days, March 19 and May 1. The latter was established in 1955 by Pope Pius XII, to coincide with International Workers Day, and to refute the “erroneous principles” that “the Church...
Marble statue of St. Anthony of Padua
St. Anthony of Padua is often depicted holding a child. A 2015 article in America: The Jesuit Review magazine explains why: In religious imagery, Saint Anthony of Padua is especially beloved; apart from the Holy Family, he is the probably the only saint depicted with...
“The Woman Clothed With The Sun”: The Assumption of Mary into Heaven
Unlike the Resurrection of Christ, the Assumption of Mary into Heaven, body and soul, is not recounted in the Scriptures. But the International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton lays out the case for Scriptural support: Like the dogma of Mary's...
Original carved wood crucifix for Holy Family Church in Hilton Head, S.C.
Mazzonlini Artcraft worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz of Italy on this original religious wood carving. It's a carved wood crucifix for Holy Family Catholic Church in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The corpus is 10 feet tall, and the crucifix is 20 feet and...
St. Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be canonized
Catholic Native Americans and First Nations people of Canada recently celebrated the feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Algonquin-Mohawk woman who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. Tekakwitha was born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, in...
Original bronze statue of labor leader Louis Tikas dedicated in Colorado
Colorado union activists, elected officials and Greek Americans recently dedicated an original bronze statue of Louis Tikas, a Greek immigrant and labor leader who was killed in one of the bloodiest incidents in American labor history, the Ludlow Massacre. The statue,...