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she had cast from her midst should be employed to paint the sacred images for the use of churches . "
• _% ¦ _H- iS- * _iS-£ t Moreover , the Bishop , since dead , who then governed the diocese
of Mans , weighing all these reasons , was still more willing to allow the Carmelites to undertake this occupation systematically , because
their labor would naturally be given in the service of various churches on terms of far less expense to many foundations unable
to spend much money in adorning the house of God . Not only then did Monsignor Bonvier permit ses cheres Jilles de Saint Therese to
consecrate to painting on glass such leisure as was left to them each day by the austere duties of their rule , but furthermore , in order
togive additional weight to his permission , and authentic witness to the confidence he felt in their talent , he entertained a serious project of a
general restoration of the beautiful windows of his cathedral , which he proposed to confide to them as soon as the plan could be fairly
arranged and the necessary funds realized . " Full of faith in the providential mission which they had thus
Yeeeived from circumstances and from the mouth of their venerated _yastor , the Carmelites of Mans resumed their work with fresh
_courage ; and in order to respond to the numerous requests addressed to them from all quarters , they were obliged greatly to enlarge its
proportions . Not only they attached to their establishment the workmen necessary for the material departments ; not only did
they secure the assistance of numerous artistes of approved merit ; but they moreover established correspondence with painters of
high reputation , whose counsels and benevolent direction are not less useful than honorable . We may be allowed to cite here the
celebrated Overbeck , who has so well understood the bearings of religious art , and whose name carries such authority in ail Catholic
Europe . Not only does Overbeck take the liveliest interest in the rising establishment of the Carmelites of Mans , from whom he
expects results exquisitely conducive to the glory of God , and the increase of His kingdom , but he has himself promised to co-operate
in its development and prosperity . At present he is causing a certain number of cartoons to be executed for him , under his own
superintendence , ( two of which are already completed , ) by one of his most distinguished pupils , or rather by one of his most intimate
friends , M . Franz de Rohden , whose fme talent , so flexible and so eminently religious , will soon , we hope , be justly appreciated among
us . Until now this branch of painting has not been cultivated in Italy , but true genius easily accommodates itself , and the hand of
the master is to be recognised in whatever it touches . "The liturgical , hagiographical , and historical programme is
always determined by ecclesiastics well versed in such matters , and whose competency is uncontested . As to the general direction of the
establishment as regards esthetics and _archaeology , it is confided to
savants who have made a particular study of ancient glass , and
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/32/
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