Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . n Quirico,St. Francis was encountered by three maidens, in poor raiment,and exactly resembling each other in age and appearance, whosaluted him with the words, Welcome, Lady Poverty, andsuddenly disappeared. The brethren not irrationally concludedthat this apparition imported some mystery pertaining to , and that by the three poor maidens were signifiedChastity, ObedieDce, and Poverty, the beauty and sum ofevangelical perfection: all of which shone with equal and co
Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . n Quirico,St. Francis was encountered by three maidens, in poor raiment,and exactly resembling each other in age and appearance, whosaluted him with the words, Welcome, Lady Poverty, andsuddenly disappeared. The brethren not irrationally concludedthat this apparition imported some mystery pertaining to , and that by the three poor maidens were signifiedChastity, ObedieDce, and Poverty, the beauty and sum ofevangelical perfection: all of which shone with equal and con-summate lustre in the man of God, though he made his chiefglory the privilege of poverty. This legend is very literally rendered in a small picture inthe possession of Count Demidoff, from which I give a , St. Francis meets the three virgins in the plain; andabove, they are seen floating away, distinguished by theirattributes. The treatment of this subject in the lower church of Assisi isaltogether different. The whole allegory is elaborately worked nvre,No. 1042. LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS. •\. II > ft-^
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