Thursday, March 18
Bishop Baraga Miracle!
Bishop Frederic Ireneus Baraga--some of our readers were introduced to this local Slovenian-born Midwestern holy man when I posted an illustration I had done of him for a recently-ordained priest. I reproduce it below. Some of you (the Yoopers in the audience especially) know him well already, and I received a number of very kind notes from his fans among my readership. You all will be delighted to hear that a possible miracle attributed to his intercession has surfaced, and is under investigation by the diocese of Marquette, the bishop's home turf. As I believe he has not gotten to even the status of Venerable yet, this is very exciting, and, if the miracle proves to pass muster, it could mean my part of the world will get its very own Blessed in the near future. More here!
delightful! I'm 1/4 "yooper" myself ;)
ReplyDeletedo tell, though, what is the meaning of the rabbit on the roof?
Actually, it's a private allusion to the priest for who it was commissioned, rather than a symbol of the bishop, whose own attribute seems to swiftly be becoming a pair of old-fashioned snowshoes and a copy of the Bible in Ojibway. I think you can find more about the symbolism of the piece on my original post on the subject.
ReplyDeleteWe could start an oral tradition that it's a snowshoe rabbit.... :)
ReplyDeleteYou are much better at drawing women than men.
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