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    for our signal” (Eugenides 195). The remaining Libson girls wanted to in a way imitate the night their younger sister’s failed suicide attempt. The Virgin Mary also provides an allegory between her, the archetype, and the Libson girls. In the Catholic church the Virgin Mary is the mother of of God and

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    According to theologian Maja Weyermann, “the resurrection is the redemption from sin through Christ and therefore the nullification of death.” In his biblical epistles to the Corinthians and the Romans, the apostle Paul considers how the acts of Jesus Christ purge humanity of the previous exploits of Adam, bringing salvation and life to all where there was previously sin and death. The initial parallels that Paul draws between Adam and Jesus Christ became the building blocks by which church fathers

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    altogether reject God’s calling. There are many examples of this in both the Bible and the world today. Samuel was called to serve as prophet, Mary was called to serve as the Mother of God, and my grandfather was called to serve as a deacon in the Catholic Church. God calls everyone to fulfill their vocation, but it takes people different amounts of time to finally respond to that calling. The Lord called Samuel to be the first of Israel’s great prophets at time when much of Israel was in a state

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    of the Immaculate Conception. This particular painting is located in the American Art - Spanish Colonial level in the Dallas Museum of Art and is part of The Cleofas and Celia de la Garza Collection.  In this particular painting, references from Catholic theology are used throughout the entire painting. The painting is a vision of one of Christ’s first disciples, St. John, an apostle of Jesus Christ. The painting revolves around the Virgin Mary, a woman free of sin who is centered in the middle of

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    St. Philomena was born on January 10th, 291 in Greece. St. Philomena’s name in latin is Filialuminis which means daughter of light. St. Philomena’s parents were both royal from a small state in Greece. Her father was forced to have his daughter marry emperor Diocletian. “My virginity, which I have vowed to God, comes before everything, before you, before my country. My kingdom is Heaven.” St. Philomena rejected the emperor because she made a promise to herself that her virginity belonged to God.

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    brought about the normal way, was conceived without original sin or its stain. The essence of original sin consists in the deprivation of sanctifying grace, and its stain is a corrupt nature. The Immaculate Conception, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, is the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary free from original sin by the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ. Mary was never in the state of sin, neither Original Sin, nor personal sin. Origen calls her worthy of God, immaculate of

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    became betrothed to St. Joseph and went to visit her cousin, Elizabeth, who was bearing St. John the Baptist. Acknowledged by Elizabeth as the Mother of God, Mary intoned the Magnificat. When Emperor Augustus declared a census throughout the vast Roman Empire, Mary and St. Joseph went to Bethlehem, his city of lineage, as he belonged to the House of David. There Mary gave birth to Jesus and was visited by the Three Kings. Mary and Joseph presented Jesus in the Temple, where St. Simeon rejoiced

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    Canadian Catholic Church had on French-Canadians from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century. It explores how the failed Upper Canada rebellions led to British parliamentary control over the French via the Act of Union in 1840.  This enabled the Catholic Church to take over several provincial social institutions which came to influence nationalistic ideas and values.  Thus, many French-Canadians believed themselves to be part of a “church-state”. However, Irish Catholic immigration

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    and Engels. Through symbol-laden texts, writers communicated their beliefs concerning the two economic ideologies. In his acclaimed novel _Chronicle of a Death Foretold_, Gabriel García Marquez vindicates Marxist ideals through his portrayal of the Catholic Church as a manipulative hegemon that cripples its people. These townsfolk become drones because of the local bishop's stranglehold on his

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    Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Second Versailles version) Napoleon Crossing the Alps is a painting constructed by Jacques Louis David in the early 1800s. This painting features Napoleon Bonaparte on a horse during his journey through the Alps that he and his army completed in May of 1800. While the painting is based off of an extremely important historical event, Jacques Louis David also used photographic and artistic elements to further depict Napoleon as he crossed the Alps. The artistic elements

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