Fray Garcia De San Francisco - El Paso, Texas
Fray Garcia de San Francisco - El Paso, Texas
Fray Garcia De San Francisco - El Paso, Texas
Fray Garcia De San Francisco - El Paso, Texas - Artist places clay rosary beads next to the crucifix. The Crucifix's design is from a 16th century small Franciscan gold cross salvaged from a Caribbean shipwreck. MONUMENTAL FACTS: ·The 14-foot high bronze is more than twice a person's height and eight times the volume. • Hollow bronze (like a chocolate Easter bunny), with quarter-inch- thick bronze walls and steel reinforcement, and weighs 1 1/2 tons. • The monument was enlarged in a year from the 31-inch high model to the 14-foot high enlargement and took 5 months to cast in bronze. • The statue's molten bronze, when poured, was hotter than lava - 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. • The mission grapes are about the size of goose eggs. • Garcia's rosary has 80 beads, each about the size of a golf ball. • Fray Garda's nose is 5-inches long. • Franciscan sandals are size 25EEEE.
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