A Congregation of Glories

by Janet Tassel (October 2011)

Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints
by Robert Kiely
Yale University Press, 344 pp.

Saint Bernardino of Siena by Jacopo Bellini

And through the body, the word made flesh:

Which leads to the fact that

Saint Sabastian by Carlo Saraceni

The Miraculous Communion of St. Catherine of Siena by Domenico Beccafumi
 

Catherine, in some legends, receives the Stigmata, the wounds of the crucified Jesus. If indeed she was so chosen, she hearkens back to perhaps the most cherished of all saints, Francis of Assisi, the beloved poverello, who in 1222 received the Stigmata. Or did he?

Ecstasy of Saint Francis by Caravaggio

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