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All these were persevering with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. - Acts 1:14
Juan Bautista Maíno
Pentecost (1615-20)
Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
The miraculous image of the Madonna di Montalto in Messina, Sicily.
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. But he does more than render the essence of a particular time and place, for in chronicling Gatsby’s tragic pursuit of his dream, Fitzgerald recreates the universal conflict between illusion and reality.
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Madonna di Tirano
A shrine depicting the apparition of Mary in Tirano, Italy.
According to tradition, Mary appeared to a man called Mario Omodei in the early hours of the morning on 29 September 1504. She promised an end to the plague if a shrine would be built in her honour on the site of her apparition. The man made a vow to Mary to build a shrine and the plague soon ended.
Nuestra Señora del Quinche
The miraculous statue of Our Lady of the Presentation of Quinche, the patroness of Ecuador.
The wooden sculpture was carved in the 16th century, and has been venerated in Quinche since at least 1604. The devotion has always been popular with Ecuador’s Indian population. They affectionately refer to Our Lady of Quinche as ‘la Pequeñita’ (the Little One).