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History of early Christian art (1893)

Cutts, Edward Lewes, 1824-1901 · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 348

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xford Library of the Fathers, translation, p. 229, note. 324 HISTORY OF EARLY CHRISTIAN ART. John, by the bishops direction, collected sixty-fivefrom the principal Roman shrines; and the vesselswhich contained them, or some of them, still exist inthe treasury of the Cathedral of Monza, together… … Ampullse, at Monza. is a small jewelled cross with two persons kneelingat it; and instead of Christ hanging upon the crossis a head of Christ in glory. But the other usualaccessories of the scene are there—the two thieves inthe attitude of crucifixion, but with the crossesomitted ; Mary and John ;…

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