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Márton Váró says he has waited for an opportunity like this all his life. He is excited for the unveiling but more so, he is focused on the task at hand: completing the only structure of its kind in the    Read More[...]

AVE MARIA — There’s a virtual stone road from Ave Maria to the Vatican, and its first mile marker rises on the facade of the tiny town’s oratory. There, the likeness of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ in Christian    Read More[...]

Carefully easing a 500-pound block of carved Carrara marble into place atop 14 other panels, stonemasons completed installing the bas-relief sculpture of the Annunciation on the front of the Ave Maria Oratory Friday. A team of 10 workers, including stonemasons,    Read More[...]

Mark Nagan snapped this photo of builders installing the pieces of the Ave Maria Oratory on Friday. He writes: “After a Founders’ luncheon on Marco Island, I traveled to Ave Maria (I was told the last pieces were going in    Read More[...]

The first piece of the annunciation sculpture by Marton Varo was placed on the face of the Oratory late in the work day on Saturday, December 11. This is the first of 15 pieces that are scheduled to be up    Read More[...]

For much of the winter, he was a familiar sight working every day on the Ave Maria University mall, often highly visible because of the plume of white dust rising from the Carrara marble that he was forming into what’s believed    Read More[...]

Sculptor Marton Varo chips away at a $3 million, 35-foot-tall bas relief sculpture of The Annunciation at the Ave Maria University campus in Immokalee, Fla. The sculpture will one day adorn the facade of the 10-storey Ave Maria Oratory. The    Read More[...]

Buy photo Marton Varo chips away at a bas relief sculpture of The Annunciation at the Ave Maria University campus. By MITCH STACY The Associated Press IMMOKALEE – Near the magnificent new church on the Ave Maria University campus, sculptor    Read More[...]