Saint Bernard, (sculpture).

Saint Bernard, (sculpture).

Gherardi, Angelo, sculptor.

Aurisina Grand Fine Stone, fabricator.

Catholic Supply of St. Louis, contractor.

Saint Bernard, (sculpture).

ca. 1992. Dedicated 1992.

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Sculpture: limestone, stainless steel and lead; Base: concrete and stucco.

Sculpture: approx. 76 x 23 x 17 in.; Base: approx. Diam. 150 in.

(On plaque on front of sculpture base:) SAINT BERNARD unsigned

A standing, draped Saint Bernard wearing a long beard and mustache. He holds a staff at his side with his proper right hand. With his proper left hand he holds a book against his hip. The sculpture is mounted upon a cylindrical base flanked by two shorter cylindrical seats. In front of the base is another cylinder with an angled top containing a text plaque. The memorial is set in a circular area edged with curbing.

Religion -- Saint -- St. Bernard

Dress -- Accessory -- Cane

Object -- Written Matter -- Book

Outdoor Sculpture -- Arkansas -- Jonesboro

Administered by Holy Angels Convent, P. O. Drawer 130, Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403

Located St. Bernard Regional Medical Center, East Jackson Street between Church & Carson Streets, Jonesboro, Arkansas

Sculpture was created in Italy by Angelo Gherardi of Aurisina Grand Fine Stone and ordered through Catholic Supply of St. Louis.

Plaque on cylinder in front of sculpture reads: WHEN WAS ST. BERNARD'S FOUNDED?/St. Bernard's Hospital came into being on July 5, 1900 as the result of the/combined efforts of Dr. C. M. Lutterloh, Rev. J. E. Weibel, Mr. J. F. Mason, and/the Olivetan Benedictine Sisters, all of Jonesboro./WHY WAS ST. BERNARD'S FOUNDED?/After the town had gone through the scourge of smallpox and malaria fever/epidemics, the Sisters, though still in debt $4,000 for their convent, decided/that they, regardless of their lack of funds, would open the hospital./WHY IS THE HOSPITAL CALLED ST. BERNARD'S?/The Sisters who founded St. Bernard's belong to the Olivetan Benedictine Con-/gregation, which was founded by St. Bernard Ptolomei, born in 1272./In the year 1343, the plague broke out in Italy, and St. Bernard sent all his/monks to care for the sick and dying throughout the country. About eighty/monks, following the example of their Abbott Bernard, died in the service of/those afflicted with the plague./It is most certainly by following the spirit of charity of their founder that the/Olivetan Benedictine Sisters established a hospital in Jonesboro and named/it after their glorious founder./"Above and before all things, care must be taken of the sick, that they/may truly be served as Christ himself."

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Arkansas survey, 1992.

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