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Offline Matthew

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Br Marcel - Dr White 50th Birthday Card
« on: February 18, 2025, 08:25:56 PM »
This is a classic -- even better if you know some of the priests pictured. I have a couple other cards I'll be uploading to a different thread.
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/br-marcel-cards-artwork/

Even if you don't know anybody -- at least look at the 4th picture. It really hits hard now.

This also hits home for me personally, since "getting a 50th birthday card" will be me in less than 2 years.

Re: Br Marcel - Dr White 50th Birthday Card
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2025, 05:29:00 AM »
These are amazing!  Thank you for sharing!  :cowboy:


Offline Matthew

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Re: Br Marcel - Dr White 50th Birthday Card
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2025, 10:34:46 AM »
There are so many details Br. Marcel put in, that only seminarians would get.

For example, in the 3rd image, Fr. Goettler is pushing books from the left -- classes he taught at the Seminary -- and Fr. Gaudray is pushing a couple books from the right -- the classes HE taught. And incidentally, those drawings look EXACTLY like those 2 priests.

Offline Ladislaus

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Re: Br Marcel - Dr White 50th Birthday Card
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2025, 12:01:14 PM »
There are so many details Br. Marcel put in, that only seminarians would get.

For example, in the 3rd image, Fr. Goettler is pushing books from the left -- classes he taught at the Seminary -- and Fr. Gaudray is pushing a couple books from the right -- the classes HE taught. And incidentally, those drawings look EXACTLY like those 2 priests.

Yeah, this is great stuff.  Thanks for posting these.  Brother Marcel had amazing artistic ability, as you mentioned, well beyond this art form ... where I think he could produce frame-quality religious art and church-quality statuary.

In the Fr. Goettler one there's a little extra joke there, if my eyes don't deceive me ... with "Apologetics A" and "Apologetics B".  Father G used to deliver his class lecture in the form of outline, where he's say.  "Big A, 1, Little A ... Big A, 1, Little B" etc.  One of the most memorable things I recall from the class was when he introduced us to the notion of "primitive revelation", probably the second-most impactful thing I learned (in general) after Bishop Williamson's explanation of the trend toward subjectivity since the "Renaissance".  It was a paradigm-altering realization, where with the evolution mindset we've always just assumed and presumed constant "progress of man", which when worked backwards suggests that the ancient peoples were idiots who communicated in grunts and groans barely beyond the level of apes.  I realized then that it was actually the other way around.  Perhaps, then, then next most impactful subject in general after those two was the Logic class ... though I had already taken very decent logic classes at Loyola University (one of the few classes that was good, since it's hard to butcher logic, fallacies, etc.)

Offline Twice dyed

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Re: Br Marcel - Dr White 50th Birthday Card
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2025, 12:18:53 PM »
Engaging cartoons/ cards.Love them. Who remembers the name of that homeless man that +W looked after.  In the 50 th card, bottom left, with a huge helmet/ tiara?? He was a bit in Ridgefield, then Winona. I forget his name...to say that he was "a character", would be an understatement. 

How about Mrs.John**n, who wore pants, and bossed all the seminarians, in 1988? Poor +W., he would preach everywhere against women wearing pants, but in Winona, SHE, not H.E., mostly wore the pants!!!