Portrait of Saint Agatha of Sicily, martyr and virgin, with Bible, palm frond and halo, within decorative border of foliage. Vignettes of Saint Romuald, Camaldolese founder, Saint Joan of Valois, Joan of France, Saint Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste, and martyr Saint Ignatius of Antioch. 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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