item: #1 of 10
          id: 12047
      author: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
       title: Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts
        date: None
       words: 122516
      flesch: 68
     summary: Those pictures which represent the Virgin Mary kneeling before the celestial throne, while the PADRE ETERNO or the MESSIAH extends his hand or his sceptre towards her, are generally misunderstood. It was about 1500, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, that the increasing veneration for the Virgin Mary gave to her parents, more especially to St. Anna, increased celebrity as patron saints; and they became, thenceforward, more frequent characters in the sacred groups.
    keywords: accessories; altar; angels; anna; annunciation; apostles; arms; art; attitude; background; beauty; book; catherine; century; chapel; character; child; christ; church; composition; conception; coronation; cross; crown; death; del; della; devotional; divine; earth; examples; expression; faith; family; feeling; feet; figures; fine; florence; footnote; form; gal; gallery; glory; greek; group; hand; head; heaven; high; history; holding; holy; idea; infant; instance; jesus; joachim; john; joseph; kneeling; kneels; lady; left; legend; life; looks; lord; madonna; maria; mater; mother; painters; peter; picture; place; raphael; representations; right; round; saints; saviour; scene; school; sentiment; series; son; standing; stands; subject; temple; throne; thy; time; treatment; virgin; virgin mary; virgin mother; white; woman; work
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        item: #2 of 10
          id: 12624
      author: Barry, J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd)
       title: Our Lady Saint Mary
        date: None
       words: 121758
      flesch: 69
     summary: But the life that is lived as sacrifice, as a thing perfectly offered to God, is a life growing up in God day by day. Lord God all-powerful!
    keywords: action; attitude; blessed; body; child; christian; church; day; death; divine; doubt; end; experience; fact; father; god; great; heaven; holy; human; jesus; kingdom; life; lord; lord god; love; man; mary; meaning; means; men; mind; mother; nature; need; new; place; power; religion; s. mary; saints; self; sin; son; spiritual; teaching; thee; things; think; thought; thy; time; truth; way; work; world
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        item: #3 of 10
          id: 14072
      author: Tyler, James Endell
       title: Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary
        date: None
       words: 123329
      flesch: 65
     summary: When the conscience-struck Israelites felt that they had exposed themselves to the wrath of Almighty God, whose sovereign power, put forth at the prayer of Samuel, they then witnessed, distrusting the efficacy of their own supplication, and confiding in the intercession of that man of God, they implored him to intercede for them; and Samuel emphatically responded to their appeal, with an assurance of his earnestly undertaking to plead their cause with heaven: And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God, that we die not. In tracing the history of the worship of saints and angels, we proceed (gradually, indeed, though by no {65} means at all periods, and through every stage, with equal rapidity,) from the earliest custom established and practised in the Church,--of addressing prayers to Almighty God alone for the sake of the merits of his blessed Son, the only Mediator and Intercessor between God and man,--to the lamentable innovation both of praying to God for the sake of the merits, and through the mediation of departed mortals, and of invoking those mortals themselves as the actual dispensers of the spiritual blessings which the suppliant seeks from above.
    keywords: almighty; angels; apostles; author; bellarmin; body; book; brethren; case; catholic; christ; christian; church; council; day; death; divine; doctrine; earth; evidence; example; faith; faithful; father; fellow; flesh; following; footnote; general; glory; god; good; grace; greek; heart; heaven; heavenly; holy; holy virgin; honour; hope; inquiry; intercession; invocation; jesus; jesus christ; john; judgment; justin; letter; life; lord; lord god; love; man; martyr; mary; men; mercy; merits; mind; mother; nature; nos; offer; origen; paris; passage; people; place; point; power; practice; praise; prayer; present; principle; question; regard; roman; rome; saints; saviour; second; sentiments; service; son; soul; spirit; subject; testament; testimony; thee; things; thomas; thou; thy; time; truth; virgin; virgin mary; vol; word; works; worship; writers
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        item: #4 of 10
          id: 17373
      author: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
       title: The Madonna in Art
        date: None
       words: 20386
      flesch: 71
     summary: Thus, century after century, the artist has poured out his soul in this all-prevailing theme of mother love until we have an accumulation of Madonna pictures so great that no one would dare to estimate their number. Even the vast number of Madonna pictures becomes manageable when studied by some method of classification.
    keywords: art; babe; beauty; child; composition; face; figures; florence; gallery; great; illustration; love; madonna; madonna art; madonna pictures; mother; new; picture; raphael; san; school; style; subject; virgin; work
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        item: #5 of 10
          id: 27275
      author: Murphy, Ethel Allen
       title: The Angel of Thought and Other Poems Impressions from Old Masters
        date: None
       words: 1479
      flesch: 75
     summary: 15 _Annunciation--Sonnet II_ 17 (_From the picture by Botticelli._) The Angel of the Jasmine Wreath_ 27 (_From Botticelli's painting, in the Borghese Gallery, of the Madonna and Child with Angels._)
    keywords: angel; botticelli; madonna; thy
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        item: #6 of 10
          id: 33596
      author: None
       title: Mary, Help of Christians, and the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year; To Which is Added an Appendix on the Reasonableness of Catholic Ceremonies and Practices
        date: None
       words: 95459
      flesch: 75
     summary: [Illustration: The Crowning of the Blessed Virgin in Heaven.] Before Retiring (_Prayer of St. Alphonsus._) MY LORD and God Jesus Christ! St. John in the Book of Revelations tells us that before the throne of God angels stand with golden censers, multitudes from all nations follow and adore the Lamb, while virgins sing the new song which they alone can utter.
    keywords: alphonsus; amen; body; christ; church; cross; day; day mary; death; divine; earth; faith; father; god; good; grace; great; heart; heaven; holy; honor; intercession; jesus; jesus christ; life; lord; lord jesus; love; man; mary; mercy; mother; novena; o god; o jesus; o lord; power; practice; prayer; saints; sin; sins; son; soul; thee; thou; thy; time; virgin; virgin mary; world
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        item: #7 of 10
          id: 33671
      author: Hammer, Bonaventure
       title: Mary, the Help of Christians Novenas in Preparation for the Principal Feasts of the Blessed Virgin
        date: None
       words: 22814
      flesch: 73
     summary: O MOST benign Mother Mary! FIRST DAY Predestination of the Blessed Virgin Mary PREPARATORY PRAYER IN THY conception, O Virgin Mary, thou wast immaculate; pray for us to the Father, whose Son Jesus, conceived in thy womb by the Holy Ghost, thou didst bring forth. Indulgence.
    keywords: church; day mary; god; grace; hail mary; heart; heaven; holy; mary; mother; novena; prayer; sin; son; thee; thou; thy; virgin mary
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        item: #8 of 10
          id: 38965
      author: St. Paul, Mother
       title: Mater Christi: Meditations on Our Lady
        date: None
       words: 43226
      flesch: 85
     summary: One day, if we try to receive our cup of sorrow as Mary did, that is, take it _for_ JESUS and _with_ JESUS, we too shall receive the cup of joy, and we shall be able to say with St Paul as we put the two side by side: The sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory. He knew her well, and he expressed his knowledge in the first _Hail Mary_ that was ever said.
    keywords: child; children; day; god; grace; heart; heaven; holy; jesus; joseph; joy; life; lord; love; mary; mother; point; prelude; sacrifice; son; soul; thee; things; thy; time; word; work
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        item: #9 of 10
          id: 41077
      author: De Vere, Aubrey
       title: May Carols
        date: None
       words: 14371
      flesch: 89
     summary: Still as a corse with field-flowers strewn Thou liest; on God thine eyes are bent: And the fire-breathing stars alone Look in upon thy cloudy tent. From Thy bright realm of Sense and Nature, Which flowers enwreathe and stars begem, Shape Thou Thy Church; the crowned Creature; The Bride; the New Jerusalem!
    keywords: church; day; earth; eyes; footnote; forth; god; heart; heaven; life; light; love; man; mary; mater; mother; nature; o'er; sea; son; soul; spirit; star; sun; thee; thine; thou; world
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        item: #10 of 10
          id: 48887
      author: Francis, de Sales, Saint
       title: The Month of Mary, According to the Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Thirty-One Considerations With Examples, Prayers, Etc.
        date: None
       words: 59253
      flesch: 71
     summary: _Prayer to ask for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost._--August Spouse of the Holy Ghost, Most Holy Virgin Mary, the inexhaustible source of grace, deign to obtain for me from your Divine Spouse the gift of Wisdom, which may detach me from the goods of the world, and make me love those of heaven; the gift of Understanding, which may teach me my duties; the gift of Counsel, which may enlighten me in the way of salvation; the gift of Fortitude, which may sustain my weakness; the gift of Knowledge, which may teach me the eternal truths; the gift of Piety, which may render the service of God sweet to me; and the gift of Fear, which may inspire me with a holy respect and tender love towards the God of infinite mercy. The days upon which the Blessed Virgin Mary shows herself bountiful of her favours, are the feasts celebrated in her honour; and if we desire to profit by them, we must sanctify them fervently.
    keywords: angels; charity; church; day; death; desire; divine; earth; example; flowers; francis; glory; god; good; grace; heart; heaven; holy; holy virgin; honour; humility; jesus; lady; life; lord; love; mary; mercy; mother; o mary; prayer; sales; saviour; son; soul; thy; time; virgin; virgin mary; virtue; words; world
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