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THE CARMELITE NUISTS OF MANS. 323
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pendant tout le temps _qu'il employait a peindre les figures de Jesus et de Marie ; et chaquefois qiC il lui fall ait retracer la Crucifixion , ses joues
etaient baignees de larmes . 4 " And thus Vasari himself , classic and materialist as he was , says ,
The saints which he has painted are more like saints than those of any other artist ! It is well that the angelic brother has imitators , for worldliness of formsposesand clothing * in sacred art ( and where is
this woiidliness not , visible , ?) is not only according" , to us a revolting discrepancy—it is a real profanation , which all worshippers led
** by piety into our churches must deplore . ' " Let us raise our eyes to these windows in the church of
Ruillesur-Loir . A new "world dawns before our investigation—a -world of pious thoughtsof holy inspirationof salutary teaching-. From
, , the numerous opening's in the walls stream floods of prismatic light , and reflect themselves , or shiver _iipon the columns , the walls , and
the pavement . . . . This light also has obeyed the prophetic call , Benedicite Lux Domino , and hastens to lay the tribute of its
splendor at the feet of the Supreme Majesty which fills the place . " But we must not linger on an idle pleasure of the eyesor a
, sterile admiration of natural phenomena . From the midst of these sheaves of many-colored light start figures , richly draped
and crowned with rubies , with topazes , and all manner of precious stones , but shining most of all with innocence and holiness ;
entire scenes of the Christian life , infinitely varied ; the sacred symbols of the mysteries and the truths of religion , although
these truths and these mysteries are with difficulty reduced to representation ; and these symbols , these scenes , these venerated
personages combine to form an admirable drama , which , begins at the cradle and ends at Calvaryor rather which begins at the world ' s
, earliest days , with the promise of a Saviour realized in the incarnation of the Messiah , and continued perpetually in the ministry
of the Church . It is the drama of the entire Christian life , with its mysteriesgracestrialscombatstriumphsand its eternal
rewards . Whoever , you , may , be , if the , holiness of , the place has not from the first disposed your soul to prayer , look around . From so
many pages eloquent with piety , some good impression will strike arid melt the ice of your heart , and will teach you praise and
repentance . You will not alone remain mute in the midst of such a concert of celestial song .
" Let us , then , open this beautiful book , written in characters of many-colored fire ; and without lingering too long on what it inay
possess that is charming to the eyes , let us cull from it with holy ardor whatever it contains of instructive and edifying to the soul .
For painting , like every other art , when not turned aside from its natural goal , ought to lead us to God ; and it lies with us to
profit by this divine commission . " Firstlywhen you have crossed the principal thresholdseven
lancets of equal , size meet your eyes from , above the High . , Altar ,
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The Carmelite Nuists Of Mans. 323
THE CARMELITE _NUISTS OF MANS . 323
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/35/
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