St Mary Preparatory High School - Eagle Yearbook (Orchard Lake, MI)

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he innermost resources of a people are quite naturally expressed by the body of its customs . . . In a society that ignoresits healthiest and most fertile traditions, the body of customs strives to make it maintain a living continuity with the past . . . one resulting from the pro- found feelings of generations, which have found in their customs the expression of their special aspirations, their beliefs, desires and sorrows, their glorious memories of the past and their hopes for the future .... Thanks to the efforts of special groups, valuable customs are being preserved or given new life. We cannot but praise those who, with competence and devotion, help those groups and direct their efforts, as well as those who directly cooperate with them .... . Jjfll ! Th above quotations are excerpts from an address by Pope Pius XII made in Rome J ly I 1953, to delegates who came to the Eternal City from the International Folklore F tv I h Id n Nice, France. K

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