New Restoration! Mother Thrice Admirable, Queen and Victress of Schoenstat – MTA – by Luigi Crosio – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality

Update April 2025: We have made a vivid restoration of the Mother Thrice Admirable picture. All the versions that we have seen, at least, always looked soft to us. The original picture used in Schoenstatt was a lithograph, and we suspect the subsequent versions in circulation were copies of a lithograph. We have made a clean, sharp restoration, trying to make it more like what we think the original looked like, an 1898 painting by Luigi Crosio called “Refugium Peccatorum” (Refuge of Sinners).

Around the time of the First World War, Father Joseph Kentenich (1885-1968), a German priest, founded a young men’s group devoted to Mary called Schoenstatt. The boys wanted a picture of Mary, so a priest at the seminary with Fr. Kentenich got one at a shop and gave it to him. It became the central devotional image of Schoenstatt, a world-wide and growing movement of people devoted to love of Jesus through Mary. It involves everyone, not just boys. This has been our mantle picture for 20 years. 

Fr. Kentenich himself knew very well the way of trust in Mary. He had been abandoned as a child in front of a shrine of Mary by his own mother, a poor woman, who told him, “Mary will be your mother now.” This shocking, desperate situation led to his long and fruitful life devoted to Christ with complete trust in Mary. Fr. Kentenich helped many people draw closer to God, and his cause is up for canonization. 

(source: Sister Marie Day, a Schoenstatt sister of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota)

- acid-free paper
- Archival pigments, rated to last for generations.
- Cardboard backer
- Above story of the art
- Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal clear bag.

** IMPORTANT ** There is about an inch-and-a-third of white space around the picture, so the image is smaller than the paper.

Thanks for your interest!

Thanks!
Sue & John

"In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art." ~ St. Pope John Paul II

Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson - Classic Catholic Art.

*** IMPORTANT *** THE IMAGE IS SMALLER THAN THE PAPER! There is a blank border around the image. Approximately 0.5" wide for 5x7, 1.3" for 8.5x11, 1.6" for 11x14, and 1.75" for 13x17 and 16x20. For the two poster sizes, 18x24 and 24x36, we use 0.5" borders. We do this because the ratio of the rectangle of the art almost never matches the rectangle of the paper, and if it did happen to match one size, it would not match the others. Most fine art printers do this because otherwise they’d have to crop the art or warp it to make it fit the paper. The border looks good. It gives the picture a faux matted appearance.
There is almost always a little more border either on the left-right sides, or the top-bottom, depending on whether the ratio of the art is wider or taller than the paper.

We make Archival Quality fine art prints:
– Acid-free paper
– Archival pigments
– Cardboard backer for sizes 11x14 and less.
– Above story of the art
– Enclosed in a tight-fitting, crystal-clear bag.
– Rated to last 200+ years without fading if kept dry and out of the direct sun.

Thanks for your interest!

+JMJ+
Sue & John
Lincoln, Nebraska

“In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art.”
~ St. Pope John Paul II

Original image is out-of-copyright. Descriptive text and any image alterations (hence the whole new image) © by Sue Kouma Johnson – Classic Catholic Art.