Colors: Blue and White
The Ateneo has adopted blue and white, the colors of Mary, as its official school colors. Marian blue is traditionally ultramarine, a deep ocean blue tincture derived from lapis lazuli, which historically has been used to color the vestments of Mary in paintings. But since Mary is honored as Stella Maris (Star of the Sea) and Queen of Heaven, various shades of blue, such as royal blue and sky blue are acceptable shades of Marian blue as well.
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The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.
The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.
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—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)