Hail Mary loosely based on Arcadelt's three part madrigal "Nous voyons que les hommes". Even though Protestant Christianity generally avoids any special veneration of Mary, access to the beautiful and culturally significant tradition of Marian music is facilitated by substitution texts. These texts are intended to replace the words of the standard "Ave Maria", preserving word boundaries and syllable stresses, so that music written for the former text can be sung with the latter. A famous setting for the Orthodox version of the prayer in Church Slavonic (Bogoroditsye Djevo) was composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in his "All-Night Vigil". Hail Mary The Hail
St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church (Jackson, Michigan) the Latin is "My House is a House of Prayer" taken from Isaiah 56:7. Statues of Mary, Joseph, St. Anne with Mary, Divine Mercy, St. Therese, St. Roch, Pius X, the communion rail, and back altar are all made of Italian Carrara marble. The altars and communion rails were a donation by George Washington Hill, the president of the American Tobacco Company. The red and green colors of the mosaic work on the main altar correspond to the original colors on a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes. All of the stained glass windows, stations of the cross, and mosaic "Our