Jesuit College

Armenia was the first Christian nation. Naturally, they have religious art. In the ninth century the carving of steles with decorated crosses arose. These khatchkars were often memorials for the dead. Many were destroyed during the Turkish genocide of the Armenian nation. They are still being carved. The local Armenian parish, Gregory of Narek and their priest recently gave this one carved in 2021 to John Carroll University. The pedestal is from this year, and it looks to be ready for an inscription.

 

The school began as Ignatius College on Cleveland's near west side, with a high school. During Hoover's Depression the college moved to outside Cleveland to a near eastern suburb. It was renamed before the move, after the first Catholic bishop in English America. A cousin Carroll was the only Catholic signatory to the Declaration of Independence. A Carroll brother signed the Constitution.

There are Jesuit colleges around America. There are four named Loyola, none are now St. Ignatius. Lobo-y-olla is Spanish for “wolf and pot”. This was the origin of the surname. Supra is a heraldic stone on a campus building.

Lawrence Griffis. Ignatius' Spiritual Conversion. 1962?. 

Ignatius had been a soldier, here he presents his shield, and dagger before the Black Madonna of Montserrat. The shield has the wolves, and pot. Across from the campus is Gesu church, it also has the shield, on an outside wall.

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St. Martin was a Slovak parish in Cleveland. In 1960 it was one of the churches that made way for the interstate highway system. A new St. Martin's was built in Maple Heights. It had a large rose window with St. Cecilia in the center, surrounded by seven angels. [window 1906 Munich] The window is now part of St. Francis Chapel on campus.

This angel plays a triangle. I was reminded of Smetana's Moldau featured a triangle, lovely music.

William McVey. Angel Handing Man the Book of Knowledge. 1961. 

This hammered aluminum sculpture is fixed upon the library, which is being remodeled.

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