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December 23rd, 2009

“There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the incarnation.”

— Madeleine L'Engle (writer, 1918-2007)

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• Bill McGarvey

  The Painting is “The Annunciation,” 1898, by Henry Ossawa Tanner. Many of Tanner’s paintings were of religious subjects. In this masterful painting of the Annunciation, he represented the Angel Gabriel as a column of light.

  It is part of the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s collection.

• Sarrathehutt

  Love this. What is the name of that painting today?