Our Lady of Angels High School - Amaranth Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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HONORED BY ELL Ruler . . . When the Duke of Florence re-entered his territories after the fall of Napoleon, his first care was to repair the Church dedicated to Mary. Warrior . . . Joan of Arc was a true knight of Mary. Before setting out on her military career she prostrated herself before the statue of our Lady at Vancoulers. When Joan was made head of the French army she had three banners made: one, bearing the words lljesus, Mary; one, depicting Mary at the foot of the Cross; and still an- other, to be carried by her, representing the Annunciation of our Lady. Before every engagement she would order her soldiers together under the banner of Mary to sing her praise and invoke her help. Aviator. . . Colonel Lindbergh carried a Blessed Virgin medal with him on his famous non- stop flight across the Atlantic to Paris. Musician. . . Several famous musicians were discussing the best method of refreshing the mind when it is weary with mental labor. After such contributions as: uQuit work and go into company? There is nothing so effective as a glass of good wine,n Joseph Haydn, the famOus Austrian composer, did not hesitate to say: I take my rosary, which I always carry about with me; after a few decades I am sure to feel re- freshed in body and mind? Artist. . . Raphael, the greatest of the great painters of the Madonna, on his deathbed ex- pressed his desire to be buried in the Church of Santa Maria and Martyres with a marble statue of Our Lady on his tomb. Author. . . Canon Sheehan would frequently arrange that the completion of a book written by him should coincide with some feast of Our Lady. He would say: I want this to be a feast day gift for her? S cientists . . . Pasteur and Roentgen, two master scientists, may well be remembered as: the Frenchman with his rosary beads before the Blessed Sacrament, the German with his at the feet of Our Ladyls statue. Roentgen recited the Rosary each day and fasted every Saturday in honor of Mary, at Whose feet he found the solution to all his problems and diiflculties. Students. . . The life size Biancoduro Marble statue of the Mother of Grace, which adorns Our Lady of Angels High School campus, is a gift of the 1938 student body-a tribute of love to Mary, uPatroness of Schools and Dispenser of all Graces. RUTH MARY BUTZ Asst 5 gem-

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mam IS LOVED and Nation. . . Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is an heirloom of the Irish race. Ireland was the first nation to proclaim the doctrine of the Immaculate Conceptmn. U nited States . . Since 1866 Mary Immaculate is the Patroness of the Catholic Church in the United States; since 1889 she is the Patroness of Catholic Schools. Fathers of the Church. . . It is interesting, as well as instructive, to know that the titles and expressions by which we honor the Mother of God in the Litany of Loreto are almost all found in the writings of the Fathers of the first six centuries. Angels. . . The Franciscan Doctor of the Church, St. Bonaventure, says, uI do verily believe that there is never an angel in heaven that is able to salute Mary as she deserves? Saint. . . St. Bernard athrms that the Lord has placed in the hands of Mary all the graces that he wishes to dispense to us, that we may know that whatever of good we receive, we receive it all from her hands. Franciscans. . . uHoly Mary, pray for us sinners, Amen? was added to the uHail Mary in 1508. The Franciscans were accustomed to say, Now and at the hour of our death? A few years later, in 1515, Pius V showed his approbation of the additions by allowing the uHail Mary,l as we now have it to be inserted in the Roman Breviary. Pope. . . A replica of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes is one of the outstanding objects of interest in the Vatican Gardens at Rome. Discoverer. . . It is worthy of note that Columbus, ship, the chief vessel in which America was discovered, was named the uSanta Mariafl and that the first sounds to break the silence of ages on the trackless waste of water that washed our shores were the grand old Latin hymns sung by the Catholic mariners in honor of Mary: uSalve Reginf and Ave Maris Stella.u Should these not then be called Americafs first hymns? Statesman. . . 05Connell was upraided for reciting his beads in the corridor of the English House of Commons while his colleagues were engaged in hot debate in the interest of their faith and native land. I am helping more than you think? was his quiet rejoinder. M ,3 4 Ft..-

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