Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . imwith the spare yet benign lineamentswe should have given to him infancy, and in the simple dress of apriest or canon. I do not knowthat he has any particular characteristic sketch is froma contemporary picture by GentilBellini; and is singular, because hehas the nimbus, and is attended (inthe original) by angels bearing thecrosier and mitre, although notcanonised. Pictures of this amiable prelate 41 St. Lorenzo G-iustiniani. abound in the churches of Venicean
Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine artsForming the second series of Sacred and legendary art . imwith the spare yet benign lineamentswe should have given to him infancy, and in the simple dress of apriest or canon. I do not knowthat he has any particular characteristic sketch is froma contemporary picture by GentilBellini; and is singular, because hehas the nimbus, and is attended (inthe original) by angels bearing thecrosier and mitre, although notcanonised. Pictures of this amiable prelate 41 St. Lorenzo G-iustiniani. abound in the churches of Veniceand Palermo. The best I have seen was painted about thetime that Clement VII. had declared him a Beato, and repre- Pwdenone,sents him standing in a niche on an elevated step ; three canonsof his Order are looking up to him; St. John the Baptist,St. Augustine, and St. Francis, stand in front. There is also a fine picture by II Prete Genovese, in which Venice,*] c, T -, -. ..,..,..,. , Tolentini. ban Lorenzo, during a famine, is distributing in charity theprecious effects, plate, and vestments belonging to his Mariadell* Orta. 208 LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS. , gT> Rosalia of Palermo, of whose festival we have such a Sept. 4. 7 gorgeous description in Brydones * Sicily, would be claimedby the Augustines as belonging to their order of hermits; forwhich reason I place her here. She was a Sicilian virgin, of noble birth, who, in her six-teenth year, rejected all offers of marriage, and withdrewsecretly to a cavern near the summit of Monte Pellegrino—that rocky picturesque mountain which closes in the. bay ofPalermo on the west; and there she devoted herself to a life ofsolitary sanctity, and there she died unknown to all. But, whenshe had ascended into bliss, she became an intercessor beforethe eternal Throne for her beautiful native city, which she twicesaved from the ravages of the plague. Happily, after a longinterval, her sacred remains were disc
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