Dining Room Murals

Painted by Sister Janet Elizabeth of the Community of St. Mary Completed in 1933

St. John the Baptist standing beside the cross, St. Mark and the lion (lower left), St. Barnabas (lower right) and St. John & St. James the Lesser (upper left).

"Virgin's Bower" The Virgin with hands uplifted  and surrounded with white clematis.  St. Matthew sitting at right in exaltation.

The Christ Child. St. Katharine kneels before the Christ Child with the crown.

Purification Procession

St. Margaret with her dragon and The Madonna over the fireplace.

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Taking an old English calendar of the Fourteenth century containing the various Saint's days of the church year, as a motif, Sister Janet Elizabeth painted the various disciples and many of the favorite saints. Flowers appropriate to the seasons in which the Saints' days are represented, are effectively combined, and here and there through the designs are scrolls bearing legends of feast days. So there would not be any monotony in the features of the subjects, Sister Janet reproduced likenesses of a number of churchmen, relatives, friends and students of the school. The Daily Times.....July 1933

Returning to St. Katharine's School as a nun........ "We crossed the Mississippi, swollen and turgid with autumn rains.  I have always thrilled to the actual sight of places that have been but lines on a map, and looked at it with the first interest I had displayed in the journey.  Out of Moline, across Rock Island and the smokey chimneys of its arsenal and the sedgy banks that split the river into channels, and across into the*hilltown that was to be for me Jerusalem the Golden. There were towers standing out along the skyline in the pale afterglow, and two of them were the towers of St. Katharine's."                                                                                                       *Davenport, Iowa A Coat of Many Colours......by J. R. Kennedy (Sister Janet Elizabeth)

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Sister Janet Elizabeth C.S.M. 1925