Daniel del Castillo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Images of the Virgin Mary vandalized. And just days later, a new image of the Virgin is beginning to take shape in Medjugorje.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrea Brivio is an Italian artist who finds beauty and faith at the heart of his work. Now, in Medjugorje, he has completed his first large-scale mural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ANDREA BRIVIO<\/strong> I did it at this house of prayer called The Face of Mary in Medjugorje. I was already familiar with this house of prayer; I had spent quite a bit of time there, including one summer when I was 18. For me, it was a powerful moment of rebirth; I felt truly united with Mary, I felt as if I were right in Mary\u2019s womb.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brivio already knew this place of prayer. At 18, he had lived there through an experience he describes as a moment of rebirth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now he has returned to take on a new challenge: he had never painted a mural this large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ANDREA BRIVIO<\/strong> They asked me, \u201cPlease, it would be beautiful if you painted both Mary and John at the foot of the cross,\u201d and so I gave it a try. It was my very first time. I had never painted a mural, much less one this large.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n And the timing of the project gave the work an even deeper meaning. Andrea Brivio arrived in Medjugorje around the same time several images of the Virgin Mary were vandalized. Seeing them covered in paint affected him deeply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ANDREA BRIVIO<\/strong> It was a real shock to see the statues of Mary defaced with spray paint; it really hurt me. But look how God ultimately turns everything to good. He transforms evil into good.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n And I am truly grateful to Mary for wanting me to come and paint, to restore the honor of her image at such a shocking moment. So, I really saw it as two forces facing each other. But as always, good comes back in glory.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For Brivio, art can become a message of hope. In Medjugorje, his first large religious mural was born from precisely that idea: responding to damage with an image of beauty and faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Daniel del Castillo Gonz\u00e1lez Images of the Virgin Mary vandalized. And just days later, a new image of the Virgin is beginning to take shape in Medjugorje. Andrea Brivio is an Italian artist who finds beauty and faith at the heart of his work. Now, in Medjugorje, he has completed his first large-scale mural. ANDREA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":95897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PVhq2Dpoghc","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bandreabrivioeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bandreabrivioint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95888,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95884\/revisions\/95888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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