THE LIKENESS OF THE ANGEL MORONI TO THE STATUE ABOVE THE TEMPLE

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Saraid74

Wenatchee, WA

According to Cyrus Dallin's own journals (family genealogy) it was the Angel Moroni who appeared to him and asked him to do the sculpture after he refused the church leadership. So the Angel Moroni sculpture he did was perfectly accurate to the real person.

http://www.deseretnews.com/top/2075/7/Why-does-the-statue-hold-a-trumpet-20-little-known-facts-about-the-Mormon-Angel-Moroni-statue-.html

Click on each of the 23 panels to learn more.  This ought to satisfy my wife's "angel Moroni fetish".