Faith and Light emblem

Meb was a painter, he had an intellectual disability. He composed his work of art on the occasion of the first pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1971 after someone read him the Charter of the first Faith and Light pilgrimage.

Meb created a simple painting. A boat in which he put a number of figures. He painted twelve of them. Jesus must be sleeping somewhere in the bottom of the boat. Then there was the sun and the clouds. Meb was certainly very inspired. He could not count.

His idea: we are in a boat and we are travelling together. Sometimes the sea is rough, sometimes it’s dead calm, sometimes you need to row, and sometimes the wind blows in the sails... Meb had understood all that.

Here is the caption that goes with the drawing :

The clouds parted and Your light, oh Lord, shone down upon us.