linking to the radiant Rebecca at Recuerda Mi Corazon Can’t We Dream? (my paraphrase of part of the article in the May 2013 issue of “Magnificat” by Pierre-Marie Dumont) Guillaume Dubufe was a master in Symbolism at the turn of the 20th century. Symbolism developed as a poetic and spiritual reaction against materialism, positivism and rationalism. These isms were trying to drown out art by demolishing all sense of the sacred. French poets Baudelaire, Verlaine and Mallarme, fathers of Symbolism, predicted that materialism would dissolve all ties that provide reasons to live, that is vertical ties uniting us to God and horizontal ties uniting us among ourselves. Ever since the Middle Ages, art has been a reflection of society’s soul. In present times with the world’s soul being lost, it is thought that art can only survive by battling this society so driven by mater...