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Meet the sculptors who created the celebrated Mother Cabrini memorial unveiled in Manhattan this month

by Oct 31, 2020
Meet Giancarlo Biagi and Jill Burkee, the Riverhead-based sculptors who created the Mother Cabrini monument that now stands in Battery Park in a plaza designed by architect Martin Sendlewski. The bronze sculpture depicts the patron saint of immigrants sailing on a tiny paper boat with two young children, their eyes fixed on the horizon, where the Statue of Liberty welcomes them to America.