Ramsey County Historical Society issued the following announcement.
Antin Pavlos, a painter and sculptor from Ukraine, came to St. Paul as a post-war refugee in 1949. He found a job working at St. Paul Statuary, creating sculptures and even a set of Stations of the Cross relief plaques that now reside at St. Pascal Baylon Catholic Church on Conway Street. Within a year of his arrival, he helped establish a small congregation of what would become Saints Volodymyr and Olga Ukrainian Orthodox Parish. He died suddenly in 1954 but not before he’d sculpted a self-portrait, which was used to create a memorial monument. It stands in Forest Lawn cemetery near other headstones honoring the many Ukrainian immigrants who made St. Paul their new home.
For more on Antin Pavlos, see the article in Ramsey County History magazine by Janice Quick: https://publishing.rchs.com/.../ramsey-county-history.../
Image: Close-up of the bronze portrait of Antin Pavlos at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Maplewood, MN. Image courtesy of Janice Quick, Ramsey County History magazine.
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