The Augustinian Recollects are still finalizing the complete program of commemorative activities, but they have already its official poster. The design was made by an artist and painter, while an architect and university professor, Santiago Bellido Blanco. Bellido, 41 years of age, is an alumnus of Colegio San Agustín of Valladolid (Spain). He has always maintained close ties with the Order, participating as a member of the Alumni Association.
The poster represents the Religiosas Familias (a pontifical document by which the Augustinian Recollects acquire official recognition as an independent Order) just like a son, who, reaching his legal age, leaves his home and pursues his own way. There is no break between the father and son; there is affection, manifested in their mutual gesture of farewell and in the moved facial expression of the Holy bishop. It is a moment of fullness. The father has completed the task of educating the son, and the latter cherishes in his luggage everything that he received at home, a treasure that he ought to share generously. And in fact there is no separation. It is not that the father remains at home, brooding over his memories and nostalgia. Rather he continues in the son, who perpetuates his action and diffuses his doctrine.
In this poster, the Augustinian Recollects appear to be followers of Saint Augustine. The history of the Order is presented like a way that begins from the Saint of Hippo and continues until the present time. The centennial logo in the poster makes explicit the most notable points, and the stages that these points indicate. And implicitly, the key to renewal is expressed, which is no other than the return to Saint Augustine.
This gives shape, if not to the present reality of the Augustinian Recollects, at least to the ideal that the Augustinian Recollects pursue, which gives sense and form to the their whole structure and organization.