Georgetown Preparatory School - Cupola Yearbook (North Bethesda, MD)

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The CVUCIlIX f Saint Due e Back IH the early days a band of Slsters of St Paul of Chatres carrued It from France to the Island of Martunlque At Sannt Pnerre they bunlt a convent and rn the convent stood thus cruclfnx There at was venerated shrine Then on May 8 l902 Mount Pelee erupted flre and death and the 32 OOO of Qannt Pierre perished only one man escapnng from the city ln the Sprung of l9l7 when the workers were cleanlng away the runns they came to the sate of the shrrne There where many had so often knel they drscovered IH the mndst of the charred bones of the nuns and their charges a small grotto that fall :ng walls had hermatncally sealed In thus grotto untouched by the flames of that awful mornnng was this wut den Cross wlth nts bronze Figure we now have thus Cruclflx thus shrnne of chnldren long dead tom another school long de stroyed Spared the frre of Martlnnque rt stands a mute remlnder of two great human tragedres Cal vary and Pelee For those of us leavlng Prep It rs fnttrng that we look long and reverently at thus sacred shrlne for we are socn to face a world torn by snmrlar tragedy hate and flre To face such a world we must know one lesson perfectly the lesson of the Crucnfux Maybe that ns why thus Crucuflx was spared to lm press thus lesson upon our hearts The better we know at the better we are prepared to face any tag dy confrdently wuth courage and love the lesson of the Crucnfnx .. 0 . . rr -- At Georgetown prep

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DEDICATIQN We dedlcote thus volume of the Cupolo to the men ot Georgetown Prep who hovc pond the Supreme Socrntuce tor their Courwtrv MAXIMILLIAN J HIRSCH FEARN FIELD ROBERT F KEELER ELKIN P FRANKLIN HENRY B COAKLEY J CARROLL SHEEHAN JAMES L OLIVER JR ANDREWW MAHONEY JR WILLIAM A ROBERTS 43 to these ond to oll our other olumm who even now ore spending themselves thot they mnght molce this world o better ploce IH whlch to live . '26 '33 . '35 . '36 . '37 . '37 EMMETT CORRIGAN '39 . , . '40 . , . '43