. Italian backgrounds. rness for the view, one cannot butinfer, must have guided the steps of those early ceno-bites who peopled the romantic landscape with won-der-working images. When did a miracle take placeon a barren plain or in a circumscribed hollow ? Themanifestations of divine favour invariably soughtthe heights, and those who dedicated themselves tothe commemoration of such holy incidents did so insurroundings poetic enough to justify their faith inthe supernatural. The church, with its dignified front and sculpturedportal, adjoins the hospice, and shows little of interestwithin but
. Italian backgrounds. rness for the view, one cannot butinfer, must have guided the steps of those early ceno-bites who peopled the romantic landscape with won-der-working images. When did a miracle take placeon a barren plain or in a circumscribed hollow ? Themanifestations of divine favour invariably soughtthe heights, and those who dedicated themselves tothe commemoration of such holy incidents did so insurroundings poetic enough to justify their faith inthe supernatural. The church, with its dignified front and sculpturedportal, adjoins the hospice, and shows little of interestwithin but the stone grotto containing the veneratedimage of Saint John, discovered in the third centuryby Saint Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelli. This grotto isprotected by an iron grating, and its dark recess twin-kles with silver hearts and other votive offerings. Theplace is still a favourite pilgrimage, but there seemsto be some doubt as to which Saint John has chosen itas the scene of his posthumous thaumaturgy; for, ac- [ ^6 ]. ll ^ %? I , ^ ?aBi V > —i \^s.\ it lf~ f ^ WisaJS (\ / f* ,-? - ? ^ /!i ^ » 1^ i
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