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MAY 16-22, 2015 | DENVER CATHOLIC
Around the Archdiocese
The Servite fathers at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Catholic Church in north Denver will see their founders
a little more clearly this month. Art conservators with
the Western Center of Conservation and Fine Arts
completed a restoration project on "Seven Founders
of the Servite Order Receiving the Habit from the
Queen of Heaven," a painting by famed French artist
Pierre Rochard that dates back to the early 1900s.
Camilla Van Vooren, left, and Hays Shoop, above
right, cleaned and renovated the depiction of Mary
with the Servite order's Seven Holy Founders. The
men were cloth merchants from Florence, Italy, who
left everything in 1233 to live a life of poverty and
penance under the name Friar Servants of Mary. They
were canonized in 1888. To watch a video on the
restoration and learn more visit: www.DenverCatholic.
com/7HolyFounders
PHOTOS BY ANDREW WRIGHT/DENVER CATHOLIC
ARTFULLY RESTORED
