In the days leading up to the Season of Lenten, I will be presenting new images from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection depicting a Gospel narrative that comes as a postlude to the Nativity stories--the Flight into Egypt. Once a staple of sacred art, this harrowing tale of the Holy Family's escape from the Slaughter of the Innocents by King Herod has fallen out of favor as Western culture has taken a more sentimental, prettified, and commercialized approach to Christmas. The current debate over refugees and immigrants gives new resonance to the story. The works to be presented over the next three weeks are all book plates or small-format prints of the Flight into Egypt by Czech artists. My opening selection is a woodcut by Michael Florian, the son of the noted Roman Catholic publisher, Josef Florian, who collaborated with Artist-Poet Bohuslav Reynek, represented in the collection. In this 1978 Christmas card, Florian has transposed the perilous journey of the Holy Family from Palestine to a bleak winter wood in Central Europe. Joseph and the donkey with its precious burden leave deep tracks in the snow. The Savior of the World appears as a tiny white circle against Mary's dark robe. This new woodcut joins another Florian image of the Madonna in the gallery of the East European Ex-Libris page in the Schools of Sacred Art section (John Kohan)