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Foreword Red barr upon a field of gold, White nor: upon a field of red Courage, the red, And .rervire and zeal- Purily, the white, The from for Jarfifire, So.faflJioned Merfy'.r Shield. Four bars for service and love, courage and zeal, white cross for purity and sacrifice-the Mercy shield the graduate wears on her finger is a device, dating back to the days of the Crusades and suggesting today the same qualities and characteristics as it did to the Knights of Old. Mother Catharine McAuley's admiration for the knightly order of Our Lady of Mercy, founded in 1218 by St. Peter Nolasco for the ransom of captives, inspired her to adapt the order to women and to select for her Sisters of Mercy the insignia of the four red bars and the Crusaders' cross of white. The young woman in the world today has urgent need ofthe virtues of courage and zeal, serv- ice and love, purity and sacrifice. With the Mercy shield on her finger, she is constantly reminded of its significance of loyalty-loyalty to herself, embodying in herself the principles of her Catholic heritageg loyalty to her fellowmen, loving her neighbor and serving him, heedful of the Great Com- mandmentg loyalty to her country and to her God, fulfilling her civic and religious duties, mindful of her early training during the years which served as preparation for her investiture with the graduate's Mercy Shield. So that the world-or the little corner of it in which we move-may know our emblem and un- derstand our love for it and our pride in its significance, we have selected our class ring as the motif and theme of our yearbook. Thus the MERCIAN of 1948 shows our readers the graduates studying and working, praying and playing, in activities hallowed by the wearing of the Mercy Shield.
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Hlwm Writer' High on a hill top, Stately in grace, Grand as a picture From tip-top to base, Stands our Alma Mater gay, Oh, how we love our S.M.A. Faithful with love We always will try To keep up thy standards, Until we die. They're our own and yours t If we remember They'll take us through. We'll never forget you, Nor lose our claim To Proudly salute, Our St. Mary's name. OO
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Mo1'HER MARY FIDELIS, R. S. M, Provincial of the Sisters of Mercy St. Louis Province f
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