Title: Address to Mother Columba
Date: 1907
Medium: Ink, coloured inks, gold paint and coloured paints on cardboard
Dimensions:
74.8 x 54.5 cm
Credit Line: Presented, Dun Laoghaire, The Dominican Sisters, 1992
Object Number: NGI.2011.3
Inscriptionupper centre to lower right (in ink, coloured ink, gold paint and illuminating): ADDRESS/ TO/ OUR Dearest/ Mother M Columba./ From the Community/ St Mary's Dominican Convent Kingstown. / 14th April.[sic] 1907. / Dearest Mother. / On the happy occasion of your Golden Jubilee of / Profession we desire to offer you our heartfelt congratulations. / To few is it given to celebrate their Golden Jubilee; and our first / impulse is to thank God fervently for having spared you so long to us, and to pray that, in His Goodness / and mercy, He may leave you with us for many years, to counsel and encourage us in our difficulties / and trials, to edify us by your example, and to share with us the joys and the sorrows of our dear Convent home. / The history of your religious life, dearest Mother, has been to a large extent, / the history of our dear Convent. From the time when, fifty years ago, you consecrated your life to the special / service of God, the vicissitudes of St Mary's have been your own, its successes, its joys and its sorrows yours. / Two generations have gone forth from under your care, to carry to most parts of / the world, their happy, holy recollections of St Mary's and to spead, by the example of their lives, the beautiful / values carried away with them from St Mary's. We are sure that many of these, far away from their home and / country, join with us today in the offering to you, dearest Mother, of our hearts love on this happy occasion. / That God may bless and protect you and long spare you to us in the enjoyment / of good health and spirits is the fervent prayer of / your loving Sisters.' VERSO: blank.
