page_title: Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement
section_title: Mother Thrice Admirable
hierarchical_section_title: Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement / Mother Thrice Admirable
context_page_description: The Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt is a Roman Catholic Marian movement founded in Germany in 1914 by Father Joseph Kentenich, who saw the movement as a means of spiritual renewal for the Catholic Church. The movement is named Schoenstatt after a small village close to the town of Vallendar near Koblenz in Germany.
  The group focuses on self-education and spiritual formation. According to its website, "We seek to grow as free, dedicated, and active witnesses of Christ in modern life by uniting our faith with our everyday lives. We look to Mary to educate us in this task and to guide us in becoming better followers of Christ."
context_section_description: The picture of Mother Thrice Admirable (Mater ter Admirabilis in Latin) was donated by a teacher in 1915. It was painted in 1898 by Luigi Crosio for the Swiss printing house Kunzli Brothers, which produced prints of the image under the title "Refuge of Sinners".
  The students renamed the picture "Mother Thrice Admirable", a title used by Father Jakob Rem, SJ, at the Colloquium Marianum in Ingolstadt, in 1604. It has been associated with specific pieces of Roman Catholic Marian art. The spiritual focus of the Marian colloquium of 1604 at Ingolstadt was a copy of the icon of Our Lady Salus Populi Romani, and Father Rem desired to know which of the invocations from the Litany of Loreto would please her most. He reported that, after meditation, the title "Mother Thrice Admirable" was revealed to him.
  The 1898 Refugium Peccatorum Madonna by the Italian artist Luigi Crosio was purchased by the Schoenstatt Sisters in Switzerland in 1964 and has since been called the Mother Thrice Admirable Madonna, a key symbol of the Schoenstatt movement.
caption: Mother Thrice Admirable Madonna by Luigi Crosio, 1898
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