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THE CARMELITE NUJSTS OE MANS. 319
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cution was but not every always thing evenl bore y the correct stamp and of intelli piet gent y , whether ; it was in a first the
essay composition ; of the subjects or in the harmony of the forms and detailsWas not the soul of religious art visible there ? Thus , on
. all sides , regret was expressed that talent which had so happily revealed itself should be again hiddenlike a light under a bushel .
, bequeathed The pious corporations to us so many of the chefs thirteenth _d'ceuvres century of painting were cited and , who statuary have .
One of the evangelists , St . Luke himself , exercised the calling of an artist . St . Lazarea monk and priest of Constantinople in the
ninth century , fell under , persecution , and had the right hand cut off for having painted sacred pictures ; after which , being
miracuthe lousl profan y cured ation , he of betook the heretics himself . to In his the brush sam enedetto again e manner , in order it Bartoloiaeo was to , brush efface _,
in handthat the blessed Angelico , Fra B , Fra , and so , otherssanctified themselves in the solitude of their cellsFinall many in , the fifteenth centurythe blessed Jacques
X / Allemand . , y a , Dominican monk , was not , less distinguished for his iety than for his talent among the painters on glass of his day .
manuscri And p , moreover tswho , the onl skilful differed artists from who the executed glass in painters miniature inasmuch upon p , y
as they surpassed them—and of whom , in fact , many followed either calling alternately—were for the most part monkssuch Lientold ,
, Conrad , Sylvestre , Jacques Florentine , Cybo , Lorenzo , Denis Faucher , Chabiot & c . And what is especially remarkable is , that many
learning religious , women as the y abbess ielded in Herrade nothing the to nun the Guda men , either & c . as Most to zeal of the or
; , , Carmelites of France are engaged in making bread for the altar , or in some similar occupation . Those of Mans havemoreover , for
, many years , painted banners for the churches . Is Painting lass less sacredless edifyingless compatible with the
long gravit upon since y g of the become cloister unbelieving ? , On the and other profane side , , it had was it said must that be painting allowed , ,
with some honorable exceptions , lost even , the , feeling inspired hy faith and works of faith . She materialises everything ; she sullies
everything , even religious subjects , with her hurtful breath . Thus it is that she peoples our churches with male and female saints who
are only a melancholy reproduction of the commonest and most worldlfiguresso completely daughters of earth that no ray of
celesti y al beauty , is reflected upon them to purify and ennoble . For us to represent sacred things it is necessary to be holy . Prayer does
not reveal herself to the artist who prays not , nor purity to him whose life is less than pure . This isas all agreea deplorable
state of things , to which the best minds , are impatient , to put an end , and chiefly the Church ; she , who , considering the pursuit of
art as a sort of sacerdotal calling , is unwilling to see it confided to but worthhandsshewhoin her eighth ( Ecumenical
1 Cou any ncil , forbids , under y pain ;— of excommuni , , cation , that those whom
The Carmelite Nujsts Oe Mans. 319
THE CARMELITE _NUJSTS OE MANS . 319
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/31/
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