Catholic Word of the Day: EVANGELIST OF MARY, 01-21-10

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EVANGELIST OF MARY

A title of St. Luke, whose Gospel gives us most of the facts we know about the Blessed Virgin. On two occasions, at the visit of the shepherds in Bethlehem (Luke 2:19) and after the finding of Christ in the Temple (Luke 2:51), Luke records that Mary "kept all these words, pondering them in her heart." Even the rationalist Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930) observes that "the accounts must be considered as communications from Mary." Christian tradition holds that among the sources he said he consulted in writing the Gospel (Luke 1:3) was the personal experience of the Virgin Mary.

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I'm betting everyone could guess who this was without reading the first line. LOL!

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Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle/Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability
Thesis	Hypapante	Evangelist of Mary

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Yes, it was pretty obvious.

[AnAmericanMother]

Yep!

"St. Luke Painting the Virgin's Portrait" by Martin de Vos, one of my favorite painters. I bet St. Luke is a self portrait!

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I know it was the style of the time and all, but that just cracks me up.

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And nobody seems to notice that there's a COW on the living room floor!!

Mr. de Vos looks very earnest and very Flemish, and so does his assistant over there in the corner grinding colors.

I love the incongruity and anachronism of it all. And of course the drawing is good (almost hallucinatory) and the color is beautifully handled. The Virgin's face has that fresh delicate color - rose on white - that was the Flemish ideal of beauty.

And is that Joseph way down the hallway in the background, wondering if they aren't done with that sitting yet?

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Earlier Catholic Words of the Day

Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle / Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability
Thesis	Hypapante	Evangelist of Mary