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Title: Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: D'Anvers, N., d. 1933
Subjects: Saints Saints Christian art and symbolism Painting
Publisher: London : G. Bell & sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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caped. Keepers of pigs and pork-butchers invoke St. Antony, for areason explained below; winnowers of wheat call upon hisname, probably because he and the other hermits of Egyptwere in the habit of weaving mats and baskets of straw; andgrocers, notably those of the city of London, formerly knownas Pepperers, chose the hermit as their patron, it has beensuggested because many of their commodities came from theEast. The most constant attributes of St. Paul the Hermit in artare a raven and a loaf of bread. He is as a rule representedas very old and emaciated, with long white hair and a whitebeard, reaching nearly to his knees. His only clothing is atunic or waistcloth of woven palm-leaves, and whether heappears alone beneath his tree in the desert, or with othersaints in devotional pictures, he always seems to be completelylost to his surroundings in earnest meditation. In the Turin Gallery is a very characteristic painting byRibera of St. Paul, seated on a rock, with a skull beside him.
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AUnart photo) \San Bernardino^ Bergamo THE MADONNA AND CHILD, WITH ST. ANTONY AND OTHER SAINTSBy Lorenzo Lotto To face p. 8 ST. ANTONY THE GREAT 9 and a raven hovering above his head, whilst in the distanceSt. Antony is seen approaching; and in the Louvre, Paris, isanother representation of him from the same great hand. InS. Agostino, Rome, is an Altar-piece by Guercino in which St.Paul the Hermit is on one side of St. Augustine, and St. Johnthe Baptist on the other; Giotto in his fine Coronation of theVirgin in S. Croce, Florence, has given the great recluse aplace of honour beside St. Peter, and in the same subject byGirolamo da Santa Croce in S. Giuliano, Venice, he is groupedwith Saints Florian and Giuliano. The attributes given to St. Antony are numerous and excep-tionally quaint. Chief amongst them is the pig or hog, withor without a bell round its neck, whose constant presencehas been variously explained, some seeing in it the emblem ofthe vices of sensuality and gluttony over

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