They use the funds raised to serve hot meals six days a week, stock the St. Some she would keep for future gifts.Īs in prior years, she was asked by Mary’s Mercy Center in San Bernardino to donate an original icon or print for their annual fundraiser dinner. Francis icon, which she brought for the Holy Father to bless. While at the audience, she held up several copies she had made of the St. “That day Pope Francis talked about feeding the poor,” Imbruglia remembered of the audience. Upon returning home, Imbruglia received a letter from the Vatican’s Secretariat of State office thanking her on behalf of the Pope for the icon. After that was passed along, the guard went off with the icon. In Rome, when at the general audience, Imbruglia explained to a security officer, “We have an icon for the Pope.” He wanted to see the icon and then took it to a Swiss Guard, who requested a “letter” - which she came to learn meant her address. Francis, and “we’re going to give it to the Pope.” Imbruglia felt the Holy Spirit urging her to write it. ![]() ![]() Pope Francis had just been elected, and a friend told her she should write an icon of St. Francis a week before she was to go on a pilgrimage, stopping in Rome. ![]() For example, she began writing an icon of St. “When I get this little nudge from the Holy Spirit, I know to act upon it,” Imbruglia explained of her art. The stranger told her, “Then add Ad maiorem Dei gloriam (For the greater glory of God).”Įver since, she hides “AMDG” in each icon. Looking heavenward, she answered, “For him.” One time, a curious gentleman watching her work on the Stations of the Cross asked her why she was doing this work. To her knowledge she does one thing different from other iconographers. She also takes drawings before the Blessed Sacrament to pray and ask for guidance. Imbruglia says the icon-writing process keeps her humble, knowing it is the Holy Spirit at work through her artistic hand. Panels within the icon highlight the story: the Angel of Fatima holding a banner proclaiming “Prayer, Reparation, Sacrifice” the “Miracle of the Sun” with the Holy Family the First Saturday Devotion with the Child Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary the Third Secret Servant of God Lucia dos Santos’ later “Vision of the Trinity” the consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary the shepherd children vision of hell and the underlining banner proclaiming, “My Immaculate Heart Will Triumph!” “I started praying the novena of Our Lady, Undoer of Knots,” she said. “But otherwise I was stuck.” Then Father Apostoli, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal, affirmed the important elements of the story of Fatima to be included in the icon. “I began there, and then I also had an idea about the children, and hell, so I continued with that,” she recalled. Writing the icon, she was certain how she wanted Our Lady to look. “After I conferred with him, I had a pile of notes,” said Imbruglia. They also put her in touch with Fatima authority Franciscan Father Andrew Apostoli, author of Fatima for Today: The Urgent Marian Message of Hope. Imbruglia called upon Deacon Bob Ellis, national coordinator of the World Apostolate of Fatima, and Mike Wick, executive director of the Institute on Religious Life, to bolster her knowledge of Fatima. She added, “I wanted to tell the story of Fatima for someone like me who didn’t know the story.” While looking at three icons already in progress in her studio in Rancho Cucamonga, California, she thought, “This is 97, then 98 and 99, and the one on Fatima is going to be my 100th icon - for the 100th anniversary. ![]() John Cantius Church in Chicago - Imbruglia received Providential affirmation about this icon. A sacred iconographer () whose icons have found homes in houses to churches and convents - including St. Highlighting the story of Our Lady of Fatima, this icon on birch panel is dazzling in color and size - 24 by 36 inches, shining with 24k gold and precious gems. Vivian Imbruglia’s icon commemorating the 100th anniversary of the apparitions and messages of Our Lady of Fatima made a cross-country trip to the National Blue Army Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Asbury, New Jersey, to be on permanent display.
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