The Poor Clares in Galway have a precious wooden statue that is over 350 years old. They pass the statue of the Christ Child and His Mother on their way to the Choir. Mother Bonaventure Browne mentions this statue in her chronicle, which she wrote in the 1600’s: “The soldiers sett fire to ye Convent, and burned it with all that was therein, only that God preserved miraculously the Tabernacle in which the Most Blessed Sacrament used to be kept in the quire and wherein the said holy Sacrament was, when they prayed before it, with the aforesaid fervor to be delivered from their enemies, and likewise an old Image of our Blessed Lady both made of wood.”    This statue formed part of an exhibition of Irish wood sculptures at the National Museum of Ireland in 1948.