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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Léonce, post: 203309, member: 3798&quot;]My old old grand mother had a very interesting story about the sculpture. It is from one of the churches that were heavely damaged on the &#039;&#039;Ile d&#039;Orléans,&quot; just beside Québec city during the British invasion. The young king of France just gave the &#039;&#039;Nouvelle France&quot; in the hands of the British Kingdom. The churches were the strongest construction at that time and the British Army used them as accomodations and citadelles. Also, to demoralize the French colons, the churches were the first military targets. The British soldiers were Anglican Protestants and the churches in the &#039;&#039;Nouvelle France&quot; were Catholics.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the story goes, it is possible to find historic official papers as the following example: &#039;&#039;During the invasion of the British army in New France (1756 - 1760), it was ordered to comply with the catholic churches values. Nevertheless, on the Beaupré coast, a church was burned and another occupied at the beginning of the invasion. On the island of Orleans, five churches are damaged. Around Québec it is the chaos, and churches are first aimed by the English.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;&#039;In the months that followed, and when the full invasion became inevitable, the Grand Vicar Briand urged the clergy of the Beaupré coast to retreat further into the woods with the parishioners, carrying the effects of churches and all that was possible to save. Here as elsewhere, they hastened to shelter all the church&#039;s ornaments. Later, all parishes in New France also comply with the same instructions.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;&#039;During these five years of turmoil, where everything is done to save the church&#039;s treasures, a british officer named Knox arrives in Saint-Laurent, June 27, 1759. When he takes a moment to visit the church, he found an entire empty building. All ornaments were transported elsewhere by the parishioners. Everything was hidden in the vaults of the Ursulines, or hidden in northen village barns, or buried far in the wood.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>According to my old old grand mother, this &#039;&#039;last supper&quot; sculpture was what left of the First Station of the Scriptural Way of the Cross of one of the churches on the Island. Her words were that it was a miracle that sculpture has survived that time of chaos and war.</p><p><br /></p><p>My old old grandfather did the Klondike during the rush of gold. Apparently he was a stubborn man and always trying to perfect things. Because the sculpture was not straight on the back side and was not standing flush to the wall, he bring it to the village wood mill and he cut the back straight... was the kind of family restoration. It is possible to see the saw cut.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two sides of the sculpture where the grains are open to the air, you will remark that the color is black, from the smoke and the time. The top and the bottom is relatively the same color than the front.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, thanks a lot for the interest and your knowledge, I really appreciate.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58562[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58563[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58564[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58565[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58566[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58567[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58568[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]58569[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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