ANNUAL REPORT
An Artist’s Gift Paintings of the Saints Inspire in New Chapel Article by Natalie Askin ’22
VI’s new campus came with many beautiful donations that brought meaning, love, and community to our new home. One prominent donation is the collection of paintings of saints in the chapel by artist Betsy Farr. At the beginning of the year, Father Schultz, Chaplain, told students that an artist had painted six paintings for Mary Mother of the Church Chapel out of the kindness of her
Pope St. Paul VI: Most photos Farr found of the pope were black and white and he looked gruff and angry, so she changed it to reveal his beauty and kindness. In the painting, she included many elements such as “Humanae Vitae” in his hand, his emblem of the papacy, and the quote, “Mary remains ever the path that leads to Christ.” Farr included this quote because Paul VI had proclaimed Mary as the Mother of the Church.
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heart, with four more to come. However, many students did not know a lot about the artist or the paintings themselves. Margaret Farr goes by Betsy (from her middle name Elizabeth), except on her artwork and documents. Farr is from Georgia, where she met her husband while studying Studio Art. She later switched her major to Art History to
St. Francis de Sales and St. Jane de Chantal, PVI’s patron saints: In addition to powerful quotes, Farr added elements on both sides of the painting: the book Introduction to the Devout Life that de Sales wrote, and a heart to represent de Chantal's devotion to the sacred heart.
