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| Mother Thrice Admirable |
Pope Francis will be in Cagliari, the Schoenstatt Family of Rome in Belmonte.
The original oil painting, done by the Swiss artist Luigi Crosio during the last
decade of the 19th century, was entitled "Refugium Peccatoyum" [Abode of
Sinners]. The artist was born in Alba in the year 1835 and died in Turin in
1915. There is a strong possibility that his daughter Anna posed as a model for
it. The Sisters of Mary are currently in possession of the original.
From a modern perspective, the sacred picture underwent a series of
record sales. In Zürich, on October 10, 1898, the Künzli brothers, printers by
trade, bought the rights to the picture and Commercialized it under various
versions, among them, a color lithograph. After 1914, students who were
preparing for the missions at Schoenstatt sought out, along with their spiritual
director, a picture of Mary for the old little shrine of Saint Michael's. It was
at that time that a professor belonging to the institute bought one of the
lithographs at an antique shop and gave it as a present in the year 1915 to the
newly constituted Marian Congregation. It was only upon arriving at Schoenstatt
that the picture was bestowed with the title of "Mater ter Admirabilis", Mother
Thrice Admirable. During the 16th century, the Holy Virgin had already been
venerated under this title at Ingolstadt where Father Jacob Rem, a Jesuit
priest, had founded the first Marian Congregation at the University of Bavaria.
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