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.  F