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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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»1 -f- 1 *> k «^^;» ft T i 1 vBi _ 4 ~.i ^â^*> y W^* ^ ^ /T^ r-^ J THE CI.ORIFlCAllOX Ol THE VIRGIN.Artist unknown. In tliL- hospital at Cues. In a painting called \W- (llorification of the Xirgin an tui-known master of the (Jerman scliO()r))resents us with a general viewof the Christian world-conception of his age. In the heavens appearsthe Trinity. In the center God the Son is represented as the Christ-child in the arms of his mother, while on her right is God the Fatherand on her left the Holy Ghost. Below on earth the male saintsare headed by John the Baptist, while St. Catharine takes the leader-ship of the female saints. ST. CATHARINE OF ALEXANDRIA. 737 In further evidence of the extraordinary popularity of St. Cath-arine in Germany we reproduce two pictures of Master Wilhelm,who may have used the same model for both, showing here oncein profile and then full face. Yet we shall find that all his saintspossess a great family likeness in that they possess extremely small
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MADONNA AND SAINTS.By Master Wilhelm. In the Berlin Museum. hands and unusually large foreheads. Of a similar type, thoughnot quite so pronounced, are the St. Catharines by Stephen Lochnerand by the Master of the Life of Mary, while an unknown artist ofthe Westphalian school endows his St. Catharine with hands ofnormal size. 7i^ Till-: OlliN COUKT, The life of the saint has bcccn made the subject of carefulstudy especially in Eno^land. where Mrs. Jameson* and Dr. Einenkelliave treated the subject uith q^reat ability. Both have come to theconclusion to look u))on jlypatia as the prototype of St. Catharines

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