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    		• Branstetter, Lawrence,
     
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    		• Bruce Marble,
     
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    		• Religion -- Saint
     
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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Ethnic -- French
     
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    		• Figure group
     
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    		• Ethnic -- Indian
     
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    		• Religion -- Prayer
     
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    		• Object -- Other
     
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    		• Landscape -- Celestial
     
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    		• Emblem -- Cross
     
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    		• Religion -- New Testament
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas
     
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    		• Stele
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    St. Philippine Duchesne Shrine, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Branstetter, Lawrence, sculptor.
    Bruce Marble, fabricator.
    Title: 
    St. Philippine Duchesne Shrine, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    Saint Philippine Duchesne Shrine, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1988-1994.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Shrine: sandblasted granite, painted; Stations of the Cross: sandblasted granite, painted; Altar and Cross: aluminum.
    Dimensions: 
    Shrine: approx. 9 ft. x 12 ft. x 8 in.; Altar and Cross: approx. H. 40 ft.
    Inscription: 
    unsigned
    Description: 
    The site contains a number of sculptures and markers created as part of a project to memorialize the lives and work of the early Indians, nuns and priests who developed the Christian community in Linn County. Included is a shrine to St. Philippine Duchesne. The shrine is an upright granite stele which contains a sandblasted and painted image of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne dressed in nun's habit, kneeling in prayer. Two Indians stand behind her. One wears a long headdress and holds a leaf in his proper right hand; the other wears a headband with feather and clasps his hands together in prayer. Behind them is a chalice and cross, and a sun on the horizon. An acorn with leaf stem lays on the ground in front of the nun. Additional sandblasted granite markers at the park depict the Stations of the Cross, and a half-length portrait of an Indian maiden, holding a cross.
    Other works at the site include at the entrance, a fort-style gate of the frontier days of the 1800s; a stele containing a map recording the "Trail of Death" marched by Indians in 1838; and an aluminum cross and altar marking the site of the mission's original church. Nearby in an open field seven crosses list names of over 600 baptized Indian Catholics buried there.
    Subject: 
    Religion -- Saint -- St. Rose
    History -- United States -- Kansas
    Ethnic -- French
    Figure group
    Ethnic -- Indian -- Potawatomi
    Religion -- Prayer
    Object -- Other -- Chalice
    Landscape -- Celestial -- Sun
    Emblem -- Cross
    Religion -- New Testament -- Crucifixion
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas
    Stele
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, 2220 Central Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas 66102
    Located St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County, Kansas
    Remarks: 
    St. Mary's Mission was originally established in the early 1800s by Jesuit priests and several thousand Potawattomie Indians who were forcibly removed from their homes by the U.S. Government in the "Trail of Death" march from Indiana to Kansas in 1938. Rose Philippine Duchesne was a French nun, who in her early 70s came to the mission with other nuns from St. Charles, Missouri to educate the Indian children. Duchesne was known by the Indians as Quah-Kah-Ka-Num-Ad (Woman who prays always) and was canonized as a saint by Pope John Paul II in 1968. IAS files contain "St. Philippine Duchesne Shrine," brochure, n.d.
    Nearby plaque reads: DAILY OFFERING/THIS GRANITE DEPICTION OF ST. PHILIPPINE AND/TWO AMERICAN INDIANS IS AN ENLARGED COPY/OF A 3" x 5" SKETCH DONE BY AN UNKNOWN NUN/OF ST. CHARLES, MO. LAWRENCE BRANSTETTER/OF BRUCE MARBLE IN FORT SCOTT COPIED AND/ENLARGED THE DESIGN USING A SANDBLAST/TECHNIQUE ON GRANITE/ THE COLORING USED/HAS A LIFE EXPECTANCY OF 40 YEARS OUTDOORS./THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS WERE ALSO DONE/BY MR. BRANSTETTER USING THE SAME TECHNIQUE.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas survey, 1995.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS KS000618
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