Mother Mary Thomas acknowledges that when she worked with Siqueiros in Mexico, her art presented social themes ... But the lower half is all pencil lines waiting for her brush work.

Her mother died when Mary was 13 and she was sent to boarding ... As a nurse, she would often do pencil drawings of her patients, which were excellent, even though she had no formal training ...

My mom is the best pencil sharpener I ever saw. Each point was a work of art. And like fingerprints, no two were exactly alike. My early toddler drawings prompted the phrase my dear mother often ...

today’s feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, was promulgated by Pope Paul VI at the end of the Council and put on the official church calendar by Pope Francis for this time after Pentecost.

He told the Register that Mother Mary has been a “constant” in his ... adding that he aspires ‘to modernize sacred art and transform traditional Catholic paintings into works of beauty ...