St. Jerome, Patron of Librarians, Book Lovers, retail Scholars: Handmade Statue

Product Name: St. Jerome, Patron of Librarians, Book Lovers, retail Scholars: Handmade Statue
The statue of St. Jerome is meant to be given to book lovers, scholars, translators, or bookstore owners, to be placed on a shelf, on a desk, in a library, in a bookstore. I design, carve, and cast the pieces myself: they're wholly original. I cast them in modified gypsum (a very strong building material) with bronze powder. After the pieces cure, we glaze and seal them. The pieces come boxed, can stand or hang (the back has a hook and is flat and unglazed), and can go outside. Each piece comes with a history card stating: Born in what is now Croatia, Jerome (ca. 345-420) became a monk around the age of 25. After a dream in which he was told he was not Christian enough, he moved to the Syrian desert to become a hermit. The desert hermits were a group of men, and a few women, who lived focused on retail extreme physical austerity but spiritual abundance: the sayings of these men are among the most pithy statements of the essence of Christianity. Jerome went to the desert like others, with th.