PREORDER: Saints Zelie and Therese Fine Art Print
NOTE: The ORIGINAL of this piece has been SOLD, but preorders for fine art prints are currently open.
This charcoal sketch of Saint Zelie Martin with her daughter Saint Therese of Lisieux is one of 10 sketches completed in my 2024 October Saint Sketch Challenge. All earnings from these sketches/prints from now through November 9th will go to Cross Catholic Outreach for hurricane relief from recent hurricanes, Helene and Milton.
Note: All preordered prints will be shipped out the first week of December.
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DETAILS:
* 5×7” fine art print on archival matte paper
*Frame/unframed option
*Frame has option to stand or hang
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ABOUT THIS SAINT/PIECE:
Saint Therese of Lisieux was just 4 years old when her mother, Zelie passed away from breast cancer. I often think about how formative those first 4 years of little Therese’s life must have been with her mother. We see in Saint Therese’s writings the grief she held in her heart at her mother’s passing. And simultaneously, we see in Saint Zelie’s writings the deep love she had for her children. Playing the day away with her kiddos so-much-so that she had to stay up half the night to make up for the work she failed to do during the day (Zelie had a lace-making business).
That’s the kind of mom I want to be to my own 4 year old daughter. Vocation first. Motherhood before art.
Saint Therese’s parents, Louis and Zelie Martin were the first married couple to be canonized as saints in the Catholic Church. And look what became of that holy union! Their daughter, formerly a child who could throw quite the tantrum….became a simple little nun with a big heart. She is now one of the FOUR female doctors of the church…we have her parents to thank for that.
What a testimony this is that the way we live our lives as parents MATTERS, the way we live out our faith with our kids MATTERS. Maybe we as parents mess up. Maybe our kids fall away from the faith. Maybe, maybe, maybe (I don’t know, I’m still knee deep in the trenches, my friends).
But what I do HOPE is this: we teach our kids about Our Lord not because we know they will stay close to Him. We teach our kids about the Lord, so they know Who to turn back to and where to find Him when they start seeking Him again.
NOTE: The ORIGINAL of this piece has been SOLD, but preorders for fine art prints are currently open.
This charcoal sketch of Saint Zelie Martin with her daughter Saint Therese of Lisieux is one of 10 sketches completed in my 2024 October Saint Sketch Challenge. All earnings from these sketches/prints from now through November 9th will go to Cross Catholic Outreach for hurricane relief from recent hurricanes, Helene and Milton.
Note: All preordered prints will be shipped out the first week of December.
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DETAILS:
* 5×7” fine art print on archival matte paper
*Frame/unframed option
*Frame has option to stand or hang
……………………………………………….
ABOUT THIS SAINT/PIECE:
Saint Therese of Lisieux was just 4 years old when her mother, Zelie passed away from breast cancer. I often think about how formative those first 4 years of little Therese’s life must have been with her mother. We see in Saint Therese’s writings the grief she held in her heart at her mother’s passing. And simultaneously, we see in Saint Zelie’s writings the deep love she had for her children. Playing the day away with her kiddos so-much-so that she had to stay up half the night to make up for the work she failed to do during the day (Zelie had a lace-making business).
That’s the kind of mom I want to be to my own 4 year old daughter. Vocation first. Motherhood before art.
Saint Therese’s parents, Louis and Zelie Martin were the first married couple to be canonized as saints in the Catholic Church. And look what became of that holy union! Their daughter, formerly a child who could throw quite the tantrum….became a simple little nun with a big heart. She is now one of the FOUR female doctors of the church…we have her parents to thank for that.
What a testimony this is that the way we live our lives as parents MATTERS, the way we live out our faith with our kids MATTERS. Maybe we as parents mess up. Maybe our kids fall away from the faith. Maybe, maybe, maybe (I don’t know, I’m still knee deep in the trenches, my friends).
But what I do HOPE is this: we teach our kids about Our Lord not because we know they will stay close to Him. We teach our kids about the Lord, so they know Who to turn back to and where to find Him when they start seeking Him again.
NOTE: The ORIGINAL of this piece has been SOLD, but preorders for fine art prints are currently open.
This charcoal sketch of Saint Zelie Martin with her daughter Saint Therese of Lisieux is one of 10 sketches completed in my 2024 October Saint Sketch Challenge. All earnings from these sketches/prints from now through November 9th will go to Cross Catholic Outreach for hurricane relief from recent hurricanes, Helene and Milton.
Note: All preordered prints will be shipped out the first week of December.
………………………………………………
DETAILS:
* 5×7” fine art print on archival matte paper
*Frame/unframed option
*Frame has option to stand or hang
……………………………………………….
ABOUT THIS SAINT/PIECE:
Saint Therese of Lisieux was just 4 years old when her mother, Zelie passed away from breast cancer. I often think about how formative those first 4 years of little Therese’s life must have been with her mother. We see in Saint Therese’s writings the grief she held in her heart at her mother’s passing. And simultaneously, we see in Saint Zelie’s writings the deep love she had for her children. Playing the day away with her kiddos so-much-so that she had to stay up half the night to make up for the work she failed to do during the day (Zelie had a lace-making business).
That’s the kind of mom I want to be to my own 4 year old daughter. Vocation first. Motherhood before art.
Saint Therese’s parents, Louis and Zelie Martin were the first married couple to be canonized as saints in the Catholic Church. And look what became of that holy union! Their daughter, formerly a child who could throw quite the tantrum….became a simple little nun with a big heart. She is now one of the FOUR female doctors of the church…we have her parents to thank for that.
What a testimony this is that the way we live our lives as parents MATTERS, the way we live out our faith with our kids MATTERS. Maybe we as parents mess up. Maybe our kids fall away from the faith. Maybe, maybe, maybe (I don’t know, I’m still knee deep in the trenches, my friends).
But what I do HOPE is this: we teach our kids about Our Lord not because we know they will stay close to Him. We teach our kids about the Lord, so they know Who to turn back to and where to find Him when they start seeking Him again.