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Artist Giovanni Strazza Year year unknown Type Carrara Marble
Dimensions 48 cm (19 in) Location Presentation Convent, St.
John's  The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in
Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza, depicting the bust of
a veiled Blessed Virgin Mary. The exact date of the statue's
completion is unknown.  The statue was transported to
Newfoundland in 1856, as recorded on December 4 in the diary of
Bishop John Thomas Mullock:   The Veiled Virgin was then kept at
the Episcopal Palace next to the Roman Catholic Cathedral in St.
John's until 1862, when Bishop Mullock presented it to Mother
Mary Magdalene O'Shaughnessy, the Superior of Presentation
Convent. The bust has since remained under the care of
Presentation Sisters, in Cathedral Square, St. John's.  Italian
nationalism was on the rise in the mid-19th century. Strazza's
Veiled Virgin is a prime example of t