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The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe – Fr. Aidan Nichols on...
The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe Gerard Manley Hopkins Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes...
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Mary, Free From All Vice And Resplendent With Every Virtue
The Virgin in Prayer, 1640-50 Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato This mature work is a version of a popular design known in at least two other paintings by Sassoferrato. This particular design...
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Blessed John Paul II on the Immaculate Conception of Mary
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome) Mary’s perfect holiness asserts “that Mary, free from original sin, was also preserved from...
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The Golden Virgin – Paul Fussell
Albert, France had been held by the Allies since September 1914 and had been an organizational focal point throughout the British Somme offensive of 1916. In a matter of weeks of the British departure...
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Love and Sorrow – Fulton J. Sheen, Ph.D., D.D.
Henry Ossawa Tanner painted La Sainte-Marie in the same year as L’Annunciation, (1898) but here the Blessed Virgin has an expression of consternation and sorrow. One has to look closely to realize it...
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