Ora and Labora

By TYLER DELGADO ’15

In honor of Saint Ignatius High School’s 125th anniversary, we thought we’d find something in the school that most of the student body had seen, but never knew why it was there or what the purpose of it was.

If you have a class on the third floor of Loyola Hall, then you’ve probably seen the two small statues sitting in front of the front window reading “Labora” and “Ora.” Like most engravings you’ll find on campus, the words etched into the two statues are in Latin. Labora is translated from Latin as”