Statue of St. Peter Returns to Lincoln Center
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2014 9月25日，高15英尺、長28英尺的聖彼得漁夫雕像重返林肯中心校園。此時的林肯中心已與2009年它離開時截然不同。當時，馬歇爾美術館的搬運人員將它從校園運走，進行存放和修復。
弗雷德里克·施拉迪鑄造的這座青銅雕像原本矗立的花園早已不復存在，取而代之的是閃閃發光的22層福特漢姆法學院大樓和麥基翁宿舍樓。
這並非聖彼得雕像的首次遷址。這座雕像於1970年由時任董事會主席威廉·T·布雷迪贈予。
聖彼得雕像最初安放在一個倒影池中，後來被填平。雕像的最終歸宿也並非隨意之舉。設施開發助理項目主管湯姆·沃爾什指出，這座雕像現在位於支撐羅伯特·摩西廣場的單層「平台」的柱子上，緊鄰下方福特漢姆大學的建築和藝術工作室。
廣場上類似的支撐柱支撐著樹木，每棵樹的重量可達6000磅。相較之下，聖彼得的雕像只有區區2400磅。
福特漢姆大學林肯中心學院院長羅伯特·M·格萊姆斯神父表示，儘管雕像最初的所在地早已不復存在，但雕像背後的故事——彼得在耶穌的命令下不情願地將網撒入海中——至今仍然具有現實意義。
「如果人們仔細觀察彼得的表情，就會發現我們所有人都會經歷的那種感受：挫敗感，那種『這件事行不通』的感覺。但同時，也存在著希望，他們會說：『是的，我要再試一次，』」他說。
“我認為這適用於所有人，尤其適用於大學生。”
When the 15-foot-high, 28-foot-long statue of Peter the Fisherman returned to the Lincoln Center campus on Sept. 25, it was a very different place from the one it left behind in 2009, when movers from Marshall Fine Arts hauled it off campus for storage and restoration.
The garden in which the Frederick Shrady cast-bronze statue had stood was long gone, replaced by the gleaming 22-story Fordham Law School and McKeon Hall residence.
This wasn’t actually the first change of scenery for St. Peter, who was given in 1970 as a gift from William T. Brady, former chair of the Board of Trustees.
St. Peter was originally installed in a reflecting pool that was later filled in. The choice of where to return the statue was likewise far from arbitrary. Tom Walsh, assistant project director for Facilities Development, noted that the statue now sits atop a support column for the one-story “podium” that supports the Robert Moses Plaza, in close proximity to Fordham’s architecture and art studios below.
Similar support columns throughout the plaza hold up trees, each of which can weigh as much as 6,000 pounds. St. Peter, by comparison, is a paltry 2,400 pounds.
Robert M. Grimes, S.J., dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, said that even though the statue’s original setting is long gone, the story behind the statue—in which Peter reluctantly casts his net into the sea at the behest of Jesus—is still relevant.
“If people actually look at Peter’s face, they’ll see something that we all go through: that sense of frustration, that sense that this isn’t going to work. And at the same time, there’s that sense of hope and saying, ‘Yes, I’m going to try this one more time,’” he said.
“I think that’s applicable at all times to all people, but especially to college students.”
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- 耶穌借船講道：耶穌上了西門彼得的船，請他把船稍微撐開離岸，並在船上向岸邊的群眾講道。
- 水深之處下網：講道結束後，耶穌吩咐彼得：「把船開到水深的地方下網打魚。」
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