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AUSTIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL The word AUSTIN goes back to medieval England At that time and place AUSTIN was an abbreviation for AUGUSTINE It refers to the great Saint Augustine Bishop and Doctor of the Church and one of the greatest scholars and educators of all times In the mid thirteenth century the Augustnnlan Fathers settled at Oxford Unlver sity in England They became known as the AUSTIN FRIARS and established a very distinguished and enviable record In the world of education So true was this that in 1326 there was a statue at Oxford University to the effect that lor the prosperity and utility of scholars studying in the Faculty of Arts every Bachelor must dispute once and respond once each year at Austin Friars The glorious tradition of the Austin Friars came to an abrupt end with the con fiscation and dissolution of the Monasterles during the religious persecution of the Church by Henry VIII in the first half of the loth century The Legend of the School Seal The center portion of the seal represents the various figures of Saint Augustine The heart burning and pierced with an arrow is symbolic of his great love for God The crozier cross and mntre denote his Episcopal office The cuncture is part of the Augustinian tunic The book is symbolic of the writings of Saint Augustine a book has been connected with the office of teaching The inscription Tolle Legel Tolle Lege' calls to mind the time Saint Augustine was praying for guidance and heard the voice of an Angel repeating these momen tous words Take and read' Take and Reaol It was then that he read verses thirteen and fourteen of the thirteenth chapter of Saint Pauls letters to the Romans Let us walk honestly as in the day not tn rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and impurities not in contention and envy But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ Moglstro In the year 389 A D Saint Augustine composed his unusual treatise De Magis tro fConcernlng the Teachert This is a dialogue between himself and his son Adeodatus who though only fifteen years old was a youth of extraordinary powers In the work the father and son address themselves to the question of the extent to which one can learn from a teacher The mann thought of the treatise is that man refers all that he understands to the inner truth which is implanted ln his mind The Teacher therefore only exhorts the learner to make that consulta tion We do not learn through the words which sound outwardly but through the Truth which teaches within us and Christ the Truth teaches within Thus the name of our yearbook is MAGISTRO and through its pages we shall endeavour to portray our theme the relationship of Teacher and Student In all phases of school activity 2 . Il ll ' ' 11 H . . 11 11 I ' I ' ' - II Il ' I . , . and is particularly apropos in the seal of the school since, in Christian symbolism, ,, .,, Z ,, I . 1 . . - I , . I ,, . . I . . . . . ' I , , , - 1 1 ' I
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