Paul Claudel, by Michael Donley Frame For_ 7/8 Inch Diameter Candles This hand-painted Guardian Angel statue

This hand-painted Guardian Angel statue is crafted with expert precision from resin cast material

The choice of forty poems is significant and reflects an ancient practice still observed in some European and Middle Eastern societies of taking extra-special care of a bereaved person in the forty days following a death - our word quarantine come from this

in black leatherette

Beautiful Blue Leather bound

finished with dried moss and bark

Paul Claudel, by Michael Donley Frame For_ 7/8 Inch Diameter Candles This hand-painted Guardian Angel statuePaul Claudel. Poet of the Sacred Cosmos and Prophet of a Christian Ecology. Although Paul Claudel (1869 1956) was a great poet, not simply a great Catholic poet, he has suffered from neglect in the English speaking world. Recently, there has been growing interest in the relationship between Theology and Ecology; the connection between Theology and Literature is also being more fully explored. These themes come together in the work of the French poet