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GEORGE CURRIN, JEWELER
OXFORD, N. C.
During this season off quiet joy and reverence
We'd like to add our heartfelt wishes for
continued good health and happiness.
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THE BLACK
MADONNAS
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tured, the Black Virgin is ev
•rrwhere the object of «adal
devotions, and her altars are al
ways bright with flowers, light-
MERRY 5
CHRISTMAS
To
All Our Many
Frienda & Customers!
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GRANVILLE
FEED STORE
Groceries - Feeds • Floors
OXFORD, N. a '
ed candles, oCforings from grate
ful petitioners. Who is iht-and
why is
These black J *Mdea statues
date from the Romahesqu* pe
riod; the earliest oner «e hove
seem to ba 11th oontury works.
Many of them are me, sly cop
ies of older images. Their origin
is a hotly debated Question,
seemingly the most reasonable
opinion places their meet im
mediate ancestry in central
Frans*, to the cult itatuaa of
mother and ehjlftl turned out to
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JOY AT
CHRISTMAS
to you and your family
Granville
Savings & Lean
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OXFORD, N. C
May the Season Be Truly
Joyous for All Our
Frienda!
SHOES-CLOTHING
BERGEN’S
Oxford, N. C
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Time to wish you the
very merriest of holi
days!^
PENNY
FURNITURE CO.
Oxford N. C. 1
Season's
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Greetings!
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Peace on Earth
Good Will
May the message ed
the angels AH our
LEGGETTS ,
Oxford
vest numbers hr the pottery
“fhetortee” of pre-Christmas Ro
man Gaul.
These statues honored the be
loved Gallo-Rdman goddesses
colled the metres (the Raman
matron*#)—the goddesses of the
earth and of all growing, living
things. Beeh metre presided over
her special locality, protecting
its fields snd animals, watching
over the growth of the crops,
listening to the petitions of ex
pectant mothers.
As the guardians of living
things the metres were natural
ly the moat popular deities of
an agricultural people such as
the Gauls. Their worship was so
deeply rooted In the hearts of
the people that apt even the
powerful new Christian God
could eradicate it
Centroveray has waxed Wrong
over the explanation at the black
color of thoio itituw. Mony hl>*
tartan* have tried to see to it
a deliberate reference to the
words of Solomon’s “Canticle of
Canticles*: *1 am aa dark—hut
lovely. O daughters of Jerusa
lem-** the tenta of Cedar, aa
the curtains of Salma. Do not
•tar* at aw because I am swar
ad me." (1:8-0.
Others believe that the black
color is limply aa accident: the
color of the wood gradually dar
kened duo to exposure to atmos
pheric condition. On the other
hand, too urn at Mack wood may
have been the artist’s choice,
subconscious or otherwise, for
too color Mack has always boon
associated with to* tooth and
hsr twin fades of Ufa and death.
It symbolises night, the mathar
at all creation; It stand* for life
and fecundity as well sa for and
note, death and destruction.
Ihs Mack goddam of too
toMt descend into the dark king
dom of death and bring forth ,
those slumbering there into the
light of day ; or they come up
moo a year tram their homes
to subterranean realms to sig
nal too rebirth of life upon tne
north after the death-like night
Os winter.
DIRECT DESCENDANT
Thus the beloved Bladk Vir -
gin has a long and glorious fam
ily lineage. She symbolise* all
that men have worshipped and
k»ia dear tram tha vary begin
ning of their history as think
ing, human beings: eternally
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OXFORD. N. C.
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FAITHFUL!
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GOOD FRIENDS
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renascent life and Woman who
bestows it, the spiritual Mother
who is the mediatrix of Ufe
riving supernatural graces, the
mysterious forces tint cause liv
ing things to burst forth from
the north each spring; only to
die snd return to hsr womb to
the fail
She is the direst descendant
■■ nd heiress of all the Earth-
Mother goddasts that man have
ever worshipped—but she stands
as far above them as her Eon
outshines too gods of tbs Greek
pantheon.
In this Woman and hsr Ben.
man finally found what he had
been confusedly searching for In
ail time* and in all places since
his first appearance in the Uni
verse: the one God. and the one
Woman who, at once Mother of
God and Mother of men. helps
to join the two within the
boundless, unending flow of love
that is lift itself. -
Education makes a people easy
to lead, but difficult to drive; easy
to govern, but Impossible to en
slave.
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As another year paaes by, ww wiah you
and your fam#as an obundaneo off jay,
health, and happiness with our tinure
appreciation far your peat kindnotaos^
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Henderson, N. C
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Omstmastidt to you
and yours
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Earth, GOOD .
WILL to Men.
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set Christmss wishes
to one and all of oar
Mends snd enetomere.
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Furniture Co.
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Henderson, N. C.
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