St Johns University - Yearbook (Queens, NY)

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5 C 1 4 1 ia HIS HOLINESS, PIUS XII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles Supreme Pontift of the Universal Church. Patriarch ot the West, Primate of Italy Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of Vatican City C , -mlfjnifflp S ,.ii P ,, ,QM ,,,,, f L xi li,

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E was the lamp, burning and shining, - so wrote teen centuries ago in the moral darkness engend- ered by the paganism of the world into which the Baptist was sent to make straight the way of the Lord. The moral darkness of our day may not be clothed in the crude trappings of the Baptist era, but it causes the same spiritual paraly- sis. Thousands of our contemporaries have been the unconscious victims of a educational system which may be likened to a museum plunged into total darkness. The priceless treasures. contained theirin are useless because there is no light whereby they might Y l St. John the Evangelist ot St. John the Baptist nine- V7 l..J . be seen and studied. Here at St. John's our hearts go out in gratitude to our parents, our teachers, our associates, and to all who have been in any way responsible for our happy lot,-for we have been the fortunate beneficiaries of an educational system in which the treasures ot antiquity, the history of human affairs and the progress of modern though and science have been interpreted in the Light ot the Divine.

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our Holiness: With sincerest sentiments of deep filial reverence we, the students of St. John's College, humbly present this modest token of our earnest fel-icitations on the occasion of Your Golden Sacerdotal Jubilee. Most Rev. William M, Slattery, C.M., Superior General of the Vincentian Fathers, in audience with the Holy Father.