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Why the sculptor of the Angel Moroni statue first declined

Angel Moroni is raised atop the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

Angel Moroni is raised atop the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)


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Wilford Woodruff was impressed. The talent was evident in the busts swiftly sculpted by Cyrus Dallin of President Woodruff and his counselors in the First Presidency in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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