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  • SAINT JOSEPH
  • saint Joseph
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  • SAINT JOSEPH
  • SAINT JOSEPH AND CHRIST CHILD
 Studio of Manuel Pereira, convent of San Jose in Avila, 1673
Thanks to St Teresa of Avila and her devotion to St Joseph , statues of the saint proliferated in the 17th century. These are the ancestors of the modern statues we see in US churches today.
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