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| | Gasson's Rotunda (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The dominant feature of the rotunda is, of course, the gigantic marble group representing St. Michael triumphing over Satan, based on the New Testament Book of Revelation, 12:7/ The sculpture, almost as old as Boston College, was commissioned in 1865 by a wealthy Boston merchant, Gardner Brewer, whose stately mansion stood at 29 Beacon Street. |
 | | The statue of St. Aloysius, at the east end of the rotunda outside the assembly hall, represents the young Jesuit in cassock and surplice, a vestment worn by assistants at liturgical functions. |
 | | Across the rotunda, on the wall to the left of the entrance to the Honors Program room, the painting represents Father Jacques Marquette as the first European to set eyes on the upper Mississippi River. |
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