This week's new cross from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection is the work of Ivan Mestrovic, a Croatian-born Artist internationally renowed in the period between the two World Wars for his monumental sculptures on historical and biblical themes, who spent the last years of his life in artistic exile in the U.S. at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. His work shows influences as diverse as the art of Byzantium, the early modern Vienna Secessionists, and French Impressionist Sculptor Auguste Rodin. This cast-metal cross is a small-scale copy of a crucifix he carved in wood in 1916 for a restored convent chapel on his estate at Kastelet-Crikvine near Split, Croatia--now the Ivan Mestrovic Museum. This latest Lenten-themed art offering can be found in the image gallery of the Crosses and Crucifixes page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)