Relationship Between St. Paul VI and Venerable Matt Talbot

 

Today is a first feast day of St. Paul VI. He was canonized in 2018.

 

On 3 October 1975, Pope Paul VI proclaimed the treatise on the heroic virtues of Matt Talbot, giving the Dublin worker and recovered alcoholic the title of "Venerable."

 

Statue and Photograph of Venerable Matt Talbot

James Power's statue of Venerable Matt Talbot in Dublin near Talbot Memorial Bridge, with the only known photograph of Matt inserted.

May 2019 Images of Venerable Matt Talbot by Terry Nelson

 

Last month we posted Terry Nelson’s latest image of Matt Talbot at

http://venerablematttalbotresourcecenter.blogspot.com/2019/04/terry-nelsons-painting-of-young-matt.html

 

Yesterday (May 11, 2019), Terry posted two different lighting of this Matt Talbot image, which he titled "One more attempt: Matt Talbot" at

https://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/2019/05/one-more-attempt-matt-talbot.html

 

Matt Talbot

T. Nelson

acrylic on 5x7 panel.

Brighter-light shot:

Matt Talbot

T. Nelson

acrylic on 5"x7" panel.

The top image is a bit colder but closer to the original as it looks in natural light.  The 2nd image is shot using artificial lighting.  I am not a photographer, to be sure.  I wanted make an attempt to do a painting more closely resembling the only known photograph of Venerable Matt Talbot.

Painting of Venerable Matt Talbot

This painting by Diane Rtemi was received and posted 4/25/19 by Gregory at https://www.facebook.com/VenerableMattTalbot/photos/a.305602539561773/2109824655806210/?type=3&theater
It will go to the Parish of Saint Hedwig of Silesia in Stara Biala in Poland.