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The Boy Who Found Gold (2016) on Netflix

NR20161h 48mDocumentary

William Hart McNichols paints Christian icons that hang unsigned in churches and colleges. As a priest in New York he served AIDS patients and pressed for LGBT rights in the Catholic church.

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Time magazine has called William Hart McNichols one of the world's best-known makers of Christian iconic images. Ordained a Catholic priest, he served from 1983 to 1990 as chaplain at St. Vincent's, an AIDS hospice in New York, where he became an early champion of LGBT rights in the church and worked with founding members of DIGNITY/USA. In 1990 he left the city for the desert of New Mexico and began a six-year apprenticeship in the ancient art of painting icons. He has received commissions for twenty-five years and has never signed a single icon; his works hang unnamed in churches and colleges worldwide, including the Vatican Museum. Born into a powerful Colorado political family, he has crossed paths with presidents and popes, peace activists and martyrs, and he paints subjects of many faiths.

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