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3 unusual facts about Angelico Chavez


Angelico Chavez

He was his own model for the figure of Pontius Pilate, and also used locals and three of his sisters as figure models.

Born the first of ten children to Fabián Chávez and María Nicolasa Roybal de Chávez in Wagon Mound, New Mexico, Chavez was baptized with the name Manuel Ezequiel.

The Madonna of Port Lligat

A poem and book based on The Virgin of Port Lligat by Fray Angelico Chavez, was selected as one of the best books of 1959 by the Catholic Library Association.



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