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Background on Mary's Gardens Mary’s Gardens was founded in 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to research the hundreds of flowers named in medieval times as symbols of the life, mysteries and privileges of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus—as recorded by botanists, folklorists and lexicographers; and to assist in the planting of “Mary Gardens” of “Flowers of Our Lady” today. After the passing of John S. Stokes, Jr., his estate arranged for the migration of the original Mary’s Gardens website to the Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio.  ...

– John S.Stokes Jr. Queen of the Missions, March 1955. Paradoxically, the very literature and book learning which destroyed the oral religious traditions of the Christian countrysides during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries took it upon themselves to record the disappearing externals of those same traditions in the nineteenth. It is thus secular lexicographers, not religious tradition, that we are to thank for the preservation of many of the centuries-old popular "Mary" names of plants which have come down to us today. For this reason many religious people unfamiliar with...

John Paul II Cultural Center Mary Garden Display A Mary Garden display is featured in the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, in Washington, DC, opened Thursday, March 22 - with photo and information, provided on request, about Mary's Gardens Partner, Bonnie Roberson, who managed Mary's Gardens from 1968 until her death, R.I.P., in 1983 Overview Description of Exhibits for visitors: "A series of graphics panels use images and text to illuminate the work of artists in many different fields of endeavor. All of the stories in some way demonstrate the association between creativity and the artist'...

STARTING at Winsford and in Delamere Street, we find a house on the Whitby’s Lane junction; it has a very faded hotel sign on the gable end. This was The Red Lion, and it was opened in 1820, where Thomas Whitby was the licensee for 17 years. In 1871 Robert Whitby became both the owner and the licensee and remained there until 1882. It was sold to Greenall’s in 1890, and there followed 24 licensees through the years until 1914 when Jabez Jones was the last one before the building became three private houses. Heading back to Barnton, we pass through Whitegate Village and the large i...

THE latest annual competition to be judged by Northallerton Camera Club took on a slightly different twist in this Covid-stricken year. Each year the members are invited to produce an AV (Audio Visual) presentation and a very nice silver trophy goes to the winner, as voted for by their peers. The maximum duration of each show was increased from four minutes to seven this year, as the entry is low enough to accommodate this – the entry for 2021 was nine presentations – a good hour's worth. The voting slips had been emailed to all members and, on the night, about 30 tuned in to Zoom, ...