Frederick Charles Shrady; Created Sculpture for Vatican Gardens

Frederick Charles Shrady, 82, a sculptor who was the first American to create a work of art for the Vatican Gardens. In 1982, Pope John Paul II commissioned Shrady to do a 12-foot marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima. Another of Shrady’s public sculptures was in the Washington headquarters of the FBI. A third, a green bronze figure of Mother Elizabeth Seton, the first American-born saint, stands at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. On Jan. 20 of cancer in Greenwich, Conn.