Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 251
theOstrian cemetery represents the parable of the Wise Virgins. 222 picroniM. Airr The scene is divided in two by an orans: on the right are thenye Virgins holding lighted torches; on the left they allappear seated at the marriage feast. The same parable is represented again in the tourth-eentun… … Fig. 70. • - Veneranda introduced into paradise by S. Petronilla, fresco in the catacomb ofDomitilla. Fourth century. and extinguished. It is probable that both paintings markedthe tombs of consecrated virgins. The introduction into heaven through the kind offices of asaintly advocate was sometimes…
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