Hans Christian Anderson is from Denmark, he
was born in Odense, which is on the center
island.
And he wrote "Little Mermaid", "The Ugly Duckling",
"The Snow Queen".
So a lot of the stories we use and have he
was the writer of them.
Also Carl Bloch, which the church uses a ton
of, he is Danish, and contemporary with Joseph
Smith, that time frame.
Also Bertel Thorvaldsen who sculpted the Christus
stature which is in Temple Square.
The original is in Copenhagen.
He was a Dane.
So he sculpted the stature of Christ, and
also he did the 12 Apostles, and they are
all holding symbols, something that is real
interesting is that when President Kimball
went to Copenhagen, they went to the Church
of Our Lady, which is were the statues are,
and there is a cool story of when he went.
So Peter is holding the keys, and Pres Kimball
pointed at that and he was talking to one
of the apostles there with him and said "I
want everyone in Denmark to know, that I hold
these keys, that the keys of the priesthood
he is holding, I hold them on this earth,
and that we are the Apostles of Christ."
And he talked to the janitor, who was showing
them, and he pointed to the brethren who were
with him and said "I am a prophet, and these
are apostles.
THese are the dead apostles, but we are the
living apostles on the earth."
Which is kind of cool, and I guess the janitor
started crying because the spirit was so strong,
and that's kind of a cool history from Denmark.
The church uses a lot of Carl Blochs paintings,
and the church paid to restore them, and so
that's one reason why BYU is doing a thing
at the museum of art, and they took the original
paintings from the castle where they have
been since Carl Bloch as painted them, and
they let us do it because of their relationship
with the church because the church paid to
have them restored, because we use them so
much.
