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"St. Benedikt. Benevent, XI. Jahrhundert, Rom. Postcard, ca. 6 x 4 in. Vatikan. Bibliothek. ars liturgica Kunstverlag Maria Laach (Germany) Nr. 5780." Reverse: "Put on your best blue (!) cuculla w red (!) shoes for the feast. ...[Dom Jean] Leclercq's presence is a great blessing for us now in the S[chool] o[f] T[heology]. ...Pax et bonum, Helen O.S.F." |
Leaflet cover. Orig: Stuttgart, Württembergishe Landesbibliothek, cod. hist. fol. 415 (detail). Saint Benedict writing the Rule, pen-drawing in a codex from the Benedictine and Imperial Abbey of Our Lady (1089-1803), Zwiefalten, Oberschwaben, Germany. Select image for larger version. |
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"Saint Benedict of Nursia, 480-547."
Bright frescos illuminate the Sacro Speco (holy cave) where young Benedict began his monastic career. Here, too, is what many judge to be the earliest graphic of Saint Francis Assisi, a contemporary of Conxolus, the artist. |
Giovanni del Biondo, Florence (active c. 1356 - 1398) tempera and gold leaf on panel, 33.7 x 37.5 cm. Toronto: AGO, 1953. |
Giovanni del Biondo |
Perugrino; in the Vatican Museum, Rome.
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Saint Benedict, 1495-98 |
Holy card showing Hans Memling: St. Benedict, 1487, oil on panel, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Reverse: "A.D. MCMXXXIV xviii kal.sept. Presbyter ordinatus a Domino
accepi quod primum obis tradidi xiv kal. sept. P. Hildebrandus Beck, monachus
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Stiftskirche Einsiedeln. Hl. Benedikt. Miniatur im Graduale von 1684. Benedict sees the whole world in a beam of light shortly before his death.
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Holy card. 19th c.? The snake in the chalice recalls how a poisoned cup, given to Benedict by recalcitrant monks at Vicovaro, shattered after he blessed it with the sign of the cross. He abandoned that "laura" (semi-anchoretic monastic community) and returned to the solitude of his cave at Subiaco. |
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Holy card: 19th c.? Caption: "O Santce Pater, gratia et
nomine a Deo Benedicte custodi nos, quaesumus, hodie et semper tua sancta
benedictione." |
Holy card: 20th c. Saint Benedict (Beuronese).
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OSB Index |
Saint Benedict
Benedictine Graphics II |
Benedictines and Art: Bibliography
Biography and
another graphic at Catholic-Forum