Identifier: legendsofmonasti1867jame (find matches)
Title: Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. Forming the second series of Sacred and legendary art
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860
Subjects: Saints Monasticism and religious orders Christian art and symbolism
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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St. Benedict. (From an engraving by Wierx.) with a hood; where he figures as patriarch of the ReformedBenedictines of Clairvaux, Citeaux, Camaldoli, or Vallombrosa,he wears the white habit. He is sometimes beardless, or withlittle beard; but more frequently he has a long white beard.
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S.SCHOL/\STlCHA Sj^vSTJNA B_^ S-MA^RO ^^PLKCIDO ; . //, . /„ nedtc£&ru ,//■ ST. BENEDICT. As abbot of Monte Cassino, he has sometimes the pastoral staff and mitre. He frequentlycarries an open book, onwhich are written the firstwords of his famous Rule,c Ausculta, Fili, VeiihaMagistri. Like other saints who haveresisted the attacks of thede-mon, he carries the asperge,or rod used to sprinkle holywater, here emblematical ofthe purity or holiness bywhich he conquered. Thethornbush is an attributewhich commemorates themeans through which heconquered. A pitcher ofwine in his hand, or a pitcheror a broken cup standingon his book, expresses theThe raven and a loaf of bread,

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