{"id":2511,"date":"2006-04-29T10:42:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T10:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/in-wood.html"},"modified":"2006-04-29T10:42:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T10:42:14","slug":"in-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/in-wood.html","title":{"rendered":"In Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely, lovely carvings from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novica.com\/artistdetail\/index.cfm?faid=3584\">the Montalvo family<\/a> &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pics.novica.com\/pictures\/4\/p69892_2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Their story:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&quot;Every piece is an opportunity to express our profound relationship with the Catholic faith.&quot;<\/em> <\/p>\n<div>Brothers Sime\u00f3n, Javier and Germ\u00e1n Ram\u00edrez Montalvo graduated from the San Juan Bosco School of Arts and Crafts, a school for low income students in the central Andes. Taught by Italian Salesian priests of the Mato Grosso congregation, they learned the secrets of woodcarving. <\/p>\n<p>From the time they were small, they worked in carpentry and in molding ceramics, popular activities in their town. In school these skills were augmented by other abilities, especially woodcarving in high and low relief. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/disputations.blogspot.com\/\">Via Tom of Disputations.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely, lovely carvings from the Montalvo family &#8211; Their story: &quot;Every piece is an opportunity to express our profound relationship with the Catholic faith.&quot; Brothers Sime\u00f3n, Javier and Germ\u00e1n Ram\u00edrez Montalvo graduated from the San Juan Bosco School of Arts and Crafts, a school for low income students in the central Andes. 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