St Joseph High School - Annunciata Yearbook (Williamsport, PA)

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Who 1933 i-.1-. dlnnunciata GJEHED IDDWWIEBJIR GDIIF GQIIUIHIIEJ MIADGDNNA No wonder painters rave and men go wild, O'er Raphael? Madonna and the Child, For what can tell a tale of perfect bliss, If not the blending trust and love in this. ZIIEDVEN in the early ages of the Church, Religion furnished a fertile Held for Art- interpretation. No theme found greater favor than the Madonna, with its touch- ing appeal and its power to move the human heart. Our Lady's special artist is Raphael. No artist has painted the Blessed Virgin with more affection. It would seem that Raphael had consecrated his genius to the Mother of God, and of the manifold forms in which he has depicted her blessed image, there is not one before which we do not feel constrained to kneel. It is estimated that he left one hundred and twenty images of Our Blessed Lady. They express in a wonderful variation the loveliness, tenderness and purity of the Virgin Mother, and the beauty, grace and serene innocence of the Divine Child. Therein lies their power. How could this artist-servant of Mary create such realistic representations of our Heavenly Queen? It was because of his idealism, because of his beautiful faith and because of his love for chastity. These characteristics he clearly reflected in the spiritual splendor of his artistic interpretation. Again--it was the power of the Madonna. MARY ALLISON JGDHNI RWIISIIKJIIINSW GIJIMIIBUGIEQ TCD THE JIMIIAIIDGDNJINIIA After careful examination, neither as adversary not as friend, of the influences of Catholicism, I am persuaded that the worship of the Madonna has been one of its noblest and most vital graces, and has never been otherwise than productive of holiness of life and purity of character . . . There has, probably, not been an innocent home throughout Europe during the period of Christianity in which the imagined presence of the Madonna has not given sanctity to the duties, and comfort to the trials, of the lives of womeng and every brightest and loftiest achievement of the art and strength of manhood has been the fulfillment of the poor Israelite Maiden's: 'He that is mighty hath magnified me'. Nine

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'Gho 1933 itl, Jlnnuncuata BERNADINE GUILLAUME NATALIE MARN014 AND JOHN NIERLE ELEANOR MCNAMEE PHILIP CALLAGHAN JAMES O,CONNELL JOHN BRENNAN JOHN AUDET MATTHEW FOGARTY Guin SIAM - Editor HELEN DUFFY Assistant Editors - - Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Circulation Manager Assistant Circulation Manager Sports Editor Advertising Manager Assistant Advertising Manager Eight

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