"Mary Magdalene Announces the Resurrection"

The original image is © by Mary Charles McGough, O.S.B.

An experienced artist in other media she has done woodcut prints, watercolor, and ceramic sculpture — her iconography is in the Byzantine style.

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Biographical Information:

Mary Charles McGough, O.S.B. (Order of Saint Benedict.), is a Benedictine from the Monastery of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota.

She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Notre Dame University, and received training as an iconographer from the St. John Damascus Sacred Art Academy in Ligonier, PA.

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