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The statue was dedicated on
October 21 in front of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. The ceremony took place for Columbus Day with a parade, followed by a procession where Captain Nathan Appleton revealed that the Governor of Massachusetts, the Mayor of the city of Boston, the Italian Consul, and the
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The execution is commonplace. The faults of the statue are lack of fine sentiment, of movement or beauty of form. It would seem as if the artist had conceived
Columbus as a man of piety, but puts the fact that he achieved something affecting the geography of the world before the spectator as boldly
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was first chosen as the location for the statue. However, after an exhibition of the model, its design was heavily criticized by the State Arts
Commission. The Commission rejected the plan to place the statue at Copley Square, leading the monument's organizers to select the
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suggested to erect a replica in a public space in Boston. In
September 1892, the City Council of Boston agreed to dedicate a duplicate of the La Isabela statue for the fourth centennial year of Columbus's arrival in America. The sculpture was commissioned by the
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to mark the site of the first
Catholic Church in the Americas. A copy of the monument was installed in Boston. The Boston version was moved several times, and it is now located in front of the Saint Anthony of Padua Church in
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In the 1920s, the statue was discretely relocated to St. Anthony's Church in Revere to equally balance a statue of St. Anthony standing on the opposite side of the church. Marty
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in the South End, the first church built for Boston's Roman
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praised the Buyens statue for being accomplished despite "the united energies of all those functionaries."
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described as the "bold and vigorous treatment of the
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Design for Buyens's
Christopher Columbus Monument, published in the Sacred Heart Review on July 2, 1892.
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Collector of the Port of Boston had all appointed a committee to erect a statue to Columbus in the
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