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Home Town or Home Community:
Yorkton, SK
Our Story:
This Marian shrine is located inside St. Mary's Church in Yorkton. It consists of a very large icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help situated behind the main altar. The icon was painted by Ihor Suhacev of Toronto and installed in 1964. It is framed in an ornamentation of the leaves and fruit of the grapevine. Immediately surrounding the icon on all sides are huge radiating rays, painted in gold to represent paradise.
The original icon, which was smaller, was painted on wood. It is a certified copy of an ...more Story
Related Links:
Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation
Western Development Museum
Contact:
Our Lady of the Prairies Foundation
Box 22076
Saskatoon SK S7H 5P1
Canada
info@ourladyfoundation.org
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