A new mural in Vincent Room 143 brings life, mission, and meaning to the walls of Holy Cross College. Side by Side (2025), painted by Assistant Professor and Program Director of Visual Arts Angelo Martínez, honors the College’s first-generation students while reflecting the Congregation of Holy Cross’s call to educate the mind and the heart of students.
“I was honored to be able to get to have an opportunity to do this for the College,” said Martínez. “I’m really enjoying making it and I’m excited that it would be hopefully here for many years to come.”
The mural takes its title and inspiration from the Constitution of the Congregation of Holy Cross:
“As disciples of Jesus we stand side by side with all people. Like them we are burdened by the same struggles and beset by the same weaknesses; like them we are made new by the same Lord’s love; like them we hope for a world where justice and love prevail. Thus, wherever through its superiors the congregation sends us we go as educators in the faith to those whose lot we share, supporting men and women of grace and goodwill everywhere in their efforts to form communities of the coming kingdom.”
For Holy Cross students—especially those who are the first in their families to pursue higher education—the mural will stand as a daily reminder that they do not walk alone.
