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"Everyday Miracles" Art Exhibit Coming to Gumberg this Summer

Image credit: NLM. For more photos visit
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/exvotos/gallery.html

This summer, we are pleased to announce we will be hosting the unique traveling exhibit from The National Library of Medicine (NLM): Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos. This exhibit presents examples of the ex-votos tradition of devotional art created in times of illness and despair. These remarkable paintings are responses of gratitude to the heavens for miraculous healings. NLM also notes that ex-votos offer a “rare opportunity to view health, healing, and illness through the hearts and minds of the ordinary person.”

The display will be available on the 5th floor of Gumberg Library from June 23-August 2, 2014 during the library’s normal operating hours. As an introduction to the exhibit and the ex-votos tradition, we will host a Lunch and Learn event on June 30, 2014, 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m on the 5th floor of Gumberg. Refreshments will be provided. An additional educational event will follow later in the summer. Check back here for further information.

The exhibit's intriguing intersection of medicine, art, and faith reflects the diverse range of disciplines and the interdisciplinary nature of Duquesne University. The exhibit is of interest to the Catholic community at large, in addition to students, faculty and staff in the health sciences, theology, and art history as well as in English, history, modern languages, philosophy, and communication.

More information about ex-votos can be found on the National Library of Medicine’s Everyday Miracles webpage.

For more information about the exhibit and educational events at Gumberg Library, or if you have questions, please visit the Gumberg Library Everyday Miracles webpage.

EndNote: "The Most Powerful Tool for Managing Your Research" is coming!

Beginning June 2014, EndNote will be made available to the Duquesne University community through a campus site license. EndNote, which works across Windows and Mac operating systems, provides the ability to find, store, and organize citations, as well as generate and format citations within documents. For more information on this robust tool, visit Gumberg's EndNote guide. As we will no longer subscribe to RefWorks after June 30, 2014, the EndNote guide includes information on how to transfer any saved data from RefWorks to EndNote.

Instructions for obtaining a copy of EndNote are in development and will be shared as soon as possible. Updates will be posted here, to the EndNote guide on the library’s website, as well as our Facebook and Twitter pages.

The Day of Four Popes: Two Popes, Two Saints (Research Guide)

Image credit: Time.com
http://time.com/78320/francis-presides-over-historic-double-canonization/

On Divine Mercy Sunday this year, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square to witness Pope Francis’ canonization of two of the most influential popes of modern times, John XXIII and John Paul II. Retired Pope Benedict XVI was in attendance. This now historic day has been called the "Day of Four Popes," because it was the first time in the history of the Church that two popes were made saints in the same day, with two living popes taking part in the mass and ceremony.

Pope John XXIII was the main architect of the Second Vatican Council and the wide-ranging changes in all aspects of the Church that it brought about. Pope John Paul II was the most-traveled pope in history as he sought to bring the Gospel to the far-corners of the world. The first Polish pope, he also played an important role in the fall of the Soviet Union.

Pope Francis ended his homily on Sunday eloquently declaring, “May both of [the new saints] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.”

In honor of this historic, unprecedented event, Gumberg librarian Ted Bergfelt has created a research guide designed to help Duquesne University students, faculty, and staff learn more about the two new saints. The guide includes links to Pope Francis’ homily, a video of the canonization, biographies of the new saints, and information on connections to Pittsburgh and the Duquesne community.