Our Lady Of The Eucharist And The Precious Blood

In 1996 a lady (Her name is Diane Chase) who has visits of the Virgin Mary saw one of my murals and asked to see me. She said I was chosen to paint the Virgin Mary as seen in her vision. I told her I did not do portraits and had never painted a person and wouldn't know where to start. She told me I had no choice that the Virgin Mary  had chosen me and God would guide my hand. She told me the canvas had to be done in a special way. It had to be 7 foot by 8 foot and in pieces so that it could travel, but no cut could go through the Virgin Mary.
Some special coincidences:
The painting was finished in July, the 7th month.
It took 7 days to finish (a mural half that size took me 3 month to finish).
The canvas consists of 7 pieces.
It traveled to the Vatican in Rome for the Pope's blessing in the 7th month and I was born in the 7th month.
The name of the painting is:
Our Lady of the Eucharist and the Precious Blood.
The mission of the painting is to travel throughout the United States to bring people back to praying the Rosary.

    Pictures of the whole process
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Me making the canvas

Diane giving more instructions

The blocking is done

Nancy Phelps and me at work

Diane  watching us paint

Diane came to visit

The finished painting

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