Portrait of Saint John of Matha, founder of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, with halo, in Crusader robes, holding shackles of freed Christians. Vignettes of Saint Valentine, priest in the Roman Empire, Saint Severin, Abbot of Saint-Maurice (Agaune), Saint Benedict of Aniane, and Saint Scholastica. Chromolithograph from Legende Celeste, nouvelle histoire de la Vie des Saints, Celestial Legend, Lives of the Saints, Paul Mellier, Paris, 1845. Chromolithograph by Jules Desportes, professor of lithography at the Institut Royal des Sourds-Muets.

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