(Slideshow) St. Joseph: Bold, beautiful and Baroque

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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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