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each year , the Groton School Library invites Sixth Form artists to submit a design for consideration in the search for a bookplate to be used in our new book purchases for the coming school year. This year’s winning Library Bookplate design is based on the stained glass window pictured here. The window is located in Chaplain Allison Read’s classroom and is dedicated to the memory of Phillips Brooks — an important 19th century theologian and educator, as well as a Groton School founding trustee. The window is inscribed in Italian and Latin, from Dante, borrowing from the Gospel of Matthew and Virgil’s Aeneid: Ministri e messaggier di vita eterna. Tutti dicean: “Benedictus qui venis!” e fior gittando e di sopra e dintorno, “Manibus, oh, date lilïa plenis” Translated, it reads something like this:
Besides his role as a trustee, Bishop Brooks was a major influence on Groton founder Endicott Peabody. In fact, Rev. Peabody wrote of Brooks’ passing and funeral in his diary, as transcribed below by Library
Thurs. Jan. 26 Groton . . . To Town with F., S.B., G.W.L., W.G.T. & wife; VIth Form to the Bishop’s funeral. Groton delegation kindly looked after. Large turn out of clergy. Bp. Lying in state 8–11. 13,000 passed by. Many stores closed. Vast throng in & outside of church . . . Service impressive — very, very sad to see the vacant pulpit. God help us to fill up the gap with the spirit [which] our dear [bishop] has left behind him.
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. . . The servants and the messengers of God. They all cried, “Benedictus qui venis,” [“Blessed is he who comes,” Matthew 21:9] and scattered all around a floral spray, “Full hands give lilies” [Aeneid 883]
and Archives Associate Barbara Dailey. Mon. Jan. 23 Groton . . . Heard of Bishop Brooks’ sudden death at 6:30 this morning. Greatly shocked. He has been one of the best friends I have ever had. I thank God for His goodness in giving me such an inspiration. May his hopefulness & buoyancy enter into my life & work hereafter. We must do more work now that he is gone. All of Boston profoundly stirred as over a personal loss.
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