This is the final piece for a request I was very happy to receive from a family who found this website and enjoyed some of my portraits of beloved saints. This family has a deep devotion to two Saintly figures in very recent Church memory: Saint Gianna Beretta Molla and Blessed Miguel Pro. You can read my own words about these two holy people at the links attached to their names in the previous sentence. One thing I might not have mentioned about Blessed Miguel is that he apparently also liked to sketch! He would sketch disguises that he would subsequently use to elude the authorities while visiting Catholic families in secret. The portrait is taken from a mug shot of the Priest shortly before he was executed by the corrupt government of the time. I have taken the liberty of removing the Martyr from the tie and cardigan he was forced to wear as an outlaw Priest, and have placed him in the Jesuit clerics he would have worn before going underground in his ministry. The second image is a proposed gathering together of the three drawings I have done to illustrate this family's devotion to Saint Gianna and Blessed Miguel. In the latter's words on the day of his death: "VIVA CHRISTO REY!!" ("Long live Christ the King!")
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