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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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l incidents from the chequered career ofSt. Jerome, including a Visit from the other three Fathers, andan Interview between him and an infidel in the presence of anumber of spectators. A specially beautiful representation ofthe Death of St. Jerome is that by Filippo Lippi, in theDuomo of Prato, in which the grief of the weeping brethrenabout the bier is brought out with almost painful vividness,whilst above the Blessed Virgin with attendant angels areawaiting to receive the soul of the departing Saint. The LastCommunion of the great teacher has also been the subject ofmany fine paintings, of which that by Domenichino, now inthe Vatican Gallery, where it hangs opposite to the Trans-figuration by Raphael, is considered the best. In it the dyingSaint is being placed by his weeping disciples in the chapel ofhis monastery at Bethlehem, St. Paula kisses his hand, andfour angels look down from above, as the priest in ornate robes,at whom St. Jerome gazes with dim eyes full of yearning rever-
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Alinari photo,^ (D//o/!to, Prato .... THE DEATH OF ST. JEROMEBy Fra Filippo Lippi To face p. 154 ST. AMBROSE 155 ence, approaches with the sacred elements. Very beautifulalso are the painting of the same subject by Agostino Caracci,in which the lion is introduced, licking the feet of his dyingmaster; and the engraving by an unknown hand, dated 1614,representing the Saint in his cell after the last Sacramentshave been administered, pressing the Gospel and crucifix tohis breast, whilst angels are bearing his soul to heaven andthe faithful lion is howling with grief. CHAPTER XVII ST. AMBROSE St. Ambrose, who is justly considered one of the greatest menof his time—for, unlike St. Jerome, he knew how to temper zealwith discretion, and, unlike St. Augustine, he had no bittermemories of past errors to lessen his power for good—was bornabout 340, probably at Treves. He was the youngest of a familyof three children, and his father, a man of high culture, wasPrefect of Gaul. It is related t

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