Illustration of Matthew 5:44, the admonition to pray for one's persecutors

Celine Fook

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Title: Illustration of Matthew 5:44, the admonition to pray for one's persecutors
Description: Illustration of Matthew 5:44, the admonition to pray for one's persecutors
Bibliographic Citation: https://olps.sg/praying-our-enemies-2098
Creator: Celine Fook
Type: image
Language: English
Rights: No Known restrictions
Source: https://olps.sg/praying-our-enemies-2098
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--image-0296
IIIF Manifest: https://sjsu-library.github.io/unionist/img/derivatives/iiif/unionist--image-0296/manifest.json
Category: Image
Related Transcription: unionist--text-0060
Location of Related Text in Issue: 1833-08-08 p04.46
Caption: This is a widely-circulated visual meme, usually captioned "Calm Down" but here repurposed by The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (Singapore) to instead demonstrate the internal tension created by the Biblical admonition to pray for those who persecute you. As the writings of the students at the Canterbury Female Academy demonstrate, they were following this practice of praying for their enemies, but that doesn't mean it was easy to do!