Re/Schoenstatt Movement:

Here is a little background on the image, Mary Thrice Admirable, which the Schoenstatt movement adopted.  My grandmother (I believe her family was from somewhere in Bavaria) gave a copy of this image with elaborate frame to Ursuline Academy in Louisville, Ky.  A sister who had been a friend of the family and who did the hard scrubbing and house work for the sisters who taught, watched over the image.  Later this sister developed tuberculosis of the bone and I remember my mother taking her to doctors when I was small.  When they were about to close the school and turn the beautiful large chapel into a restaurant called "The Cloister" with waiters dressed as monks, etc. this then old sister told my mother to come and take this beautiful picture home.  I inherited it but never knew its title until I saw it once on the UD Marian site.  It is the one on the lower right side of this link:
And here is a little more background on Fr. Kentenich:
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