{"id":8857,"date":"2019-06-04T09:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=8857"},"modified":"2019-06-06T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T16:26:01","slug":"is-the-statue-outside-near-bapst-that-of-st-mary-what-is-the-story-behind-it-its-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/06\/04\/is-the-statue-outside-near-bapst-that-of-st-mary-what-is-the-story-behind-it-its-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the statue outside near Bapst that of St. Mary? What is the story behind it? It&#8217;s beautiful!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AW050419-2.jpg\" alt=\"Is the statue outside near Bapst that of St. Mary? What is the story behind it? It's beautiful!\" class=\"wp-image-8853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AW050419-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AW050419-2-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AW050419-2-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Is the statue outside near Bapst that of St. Mary?  What is the story behind it?  It&#8217;s beautiful!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m having my assistants research this question. In the meantime, can you offer some clarification: Do you mean the statue along the driveway to the South of Bapst, or the one in the niche on the north side of the building (facing Comm Ave.)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update 6\/6\/19: If you mean the one along the driveway, yes, that&#8217;s St. Mary. The significant iconographic detail is her foot on a snake (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/mary-snake\">bit.ly\/mary-snake<\/a>). A shrine in that location seems to have been planned by Senior Sodality in 1948; the earliest existing photo that could be found is in the 1951 Sub Turri (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-sub-turri-1951\">bit.ly\/bc-sub-turri-1951<\/a>), but that seems to be a different statue. It is unclear when that one was replaced with the current one, which does not have a plaque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having my assistants research this question. In the meantime, can you offer some clarification: Do you mean the statue along the driveway to the South of Bapst, or the one in the niche on the north side of the building (facing Comm Ave.)? Update 6\/6\/19: If you mean the one along the driveway, yes, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/06\/04\/is-the-statue-outside-near-bapst-that-of-st-mary-what-is-the-story-behind-it-its-beautiful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is the statue outside near Bapst that of St. Mary? What is the story behind it? It&#8217;s beautiful!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-8857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-blessed-virgin-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8883,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions\/8883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}