Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel - Aloysian Yearbook (Aloysian, NY)

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fill F0lll'll1lI'Y ll. 1858, in a little town in southern France, the Mother of God stepped down from lleaven. smiled at a child named Bernadette Soulnirous. only two or three years younger than most of the girls in our class. and entrusted to her the miracle that is Lourdes. A hundred years have passed. Sixty-six girls are graduating froln an Academy dedicated to Uur Lady, and in the fullness of our love are dedicating to her the story of the most important year of our lives. We sincerely feel that our class has her very special protection. We graduated from grammar school in the Marian Year, the Centenary of the Proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception. We are finishing our course during the Centennial of her Apparition at Lourdes where she told her favored protegee that she was indeed L'Immaculee Conception. In our Alma Mater we invoke her as Lovely lady dressed in blue. Now. Mary is truly very feminine for she never appears in the same robe. ln the miraculous picture of Uur Lady of Good Counsel the colors she wears are rich and deep. At Guadaloupc again we find her in colorful dress. But at Lourdes she came just as our song describes her, dressed simply in blue and white and gold. our school colors! Bernadette says, She appears to be a young girl of sixteen or seventeen. She is dressed in a white robe, girdled at the waist with a blue ribbon, which flows down all along her dress. She wears upon her head a veil which is also whiteg this veil gives just a glimpse of her hair, and then falls down at the hack below her waist. Her feet are bare, but covered by the folds of her robe, except at a point where a golden rose shines upon each of them. She holds on her right arm a rosary of white beads with a chain of gold shining like the two roses at her feet. The artist who was chosen to make the statue at the Shrine tried to follow Bernadctte's description in every detail, but when she saw it, shc said, lt's very beautiful, but it is not my Lady. v Qs -I

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f TjTT'f if-far, 'amz ' A' V, A X ., Ju . Dedicated to . . . ' if Exe We have not been favored as Saint Bernadette was, but we have been blessed in other ways. Bernadette saw Our Lady eighteen times between February 11 and July 16, but she would not be seeing her forevermore in Heaven, as she is now, had she not imitated her. W'e have been taught at the Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel not only to be ladylike, but to be Lady-like. We have been reminded constantly of the debt we owe to our beloved parents who have made so many sacrifices that we might receive the priceless benefits of Catholic education. We have been trained in self-knowledge and self-discipline so that in every event of our lives we might sec God's will, recognize His dominion over us, and say Fiat as Mary did. This, too, is the greatest miracle of Lourdes. Thousands upon thousands from all countries of the world have sought Our Blessed Mother's aid at the healing water of her Shrine. Not all have been answered according to their own wills, but millions have gone from Lourdes strengthened in soul, glorifying God, and saying Fiat to His adorable will. Dearest Mother, though we may not visit your Shrine in this the Centenary of your visit to earth, you are forevermore enshrined in our hearts. Deign to accept this tribute of love and praise, our 1958 ALOY- SIANJ hear our voices joining the triumphant chorus across the waters, Ave, Ave, Ave, Mariaf' Receive us as your children and protect us through life, so that like Bernadette we too may see you one day, O Beau- tiful Lady!