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Madre Maria Isabel da Santíssima Trindade

Mother Maria Isabel of the Holy Trinity

Maria Isabel Picão Caldeira
Santa Eulália, Elvas, 1889 - Elvas 1962
Founder of a religious order, a process of canonization has been started
(Biography).

artist unknown
2014

Elvas / Madre Maria Isabel da Santíssima Trindade

Description

Marble monument consisting of a large standing white triangle, and a leaning pink triangle (torch, from which corten steel flames protrude), with the text "Uma vida, um Testemunho" (One Life, One Testimony) and a bronze portrait medaillon. Both faces of the monument are identical.

Elvas - Madre Maria Isabel da Santíssima Trindade

Inscription(s)

Homenagem a Madre Maria Isabel da SS.ma Trinidade
Fundadora da Congregação das
Irmãs Concepcionistas ao Serviço dos Pobres
no 125° aniversário do seu nascimento
1-2-1889 * 1-2-2014

Homage to Mother Maria Isabel of the Holy Trinity
Founder of the Congregation for
Conceptionist Sisters at the Service of the Poor
on the 125th anniversary of her birth
1-2-1889 * 1-2-2014

Artist

Unknown artist. Do you know who the sculptor is? please let us know.

Sources & Information

Radio Elvas, 14 June 2014, Madre Maria Isabel da Santíssima Trindade homenageada em Elvas.

Location (N 38°53'10" - W 7°9'9") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ptat068; Photograph: 4 September 2017
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