Arts brief: Pope receives Lebanese-Armenian artist’s work

Published: Thursday May 28, 2009

Micha Micheline E. Abounassar, the artist, with print 2 of 500 of The Savior, Jesus of Nazareth, before it was shipped from Glendale Calif., to Jerusalem, and onward to the Vatican.

Glendale, Calif. - A work by Micheline Abounassar, better known as Micha, was presented to Pope Benedict XVI on May 12 during his visit to Jerusalem.

The executive director of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops in the Holy Land, Wadie Abunassar, presented The Savior to the Bishop of Rome. The presentation took place during the Luncheon with the Ordinaries of the Holy Land, the Abbots, and the Papal Entourage in the Patriarchate of the Latins in Jerusalem.

The pope blessed Micha's work.

The work is a printed oil painting, number 2 of a limited edition of 500, signed and numbered by the artist. Micha, who lives in Glendale, Calif., is from Nazareth. Her grandmother, Haigo-He Tabarjian, is Armenian.

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