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Big Isle artist who made block prints of St. Damien and St. Marianne dies

09/19/2018 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Big Island artist Dietrich Varez, whose block print images of Molokai’s St. Damien de Veuster and St. Marianne Cope were incorporated into popular aloha wear, died Aug. 14, at the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home on Hawaii Island. He was 79. Though not a Catholic, Varez considered Hawaii’s two […]

Filed Under: Local News, Obituary Tagged With: Dietrich Varez, St. Damien, St. Marianne

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