Fuga Mundi

Medium: oil,canvas

Altar of the Seven Sorrows. Church of Saint Nicholas, Kalkar in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

The Vision of Saint Benedict - Fra Juan Andrés Rizi, Prado Museum, Madrid

In the Monastic tradition, two periods of silence are observed. The Minor Silence, in which talking is restricted but not forbidden, recalls the afternoon hours of Agony of Christ of the Cross. The Grand Silence, which is observed from Compline until Prime the following day, recalls the three days Christ was in the tomb.

The Soul of S. Benedict 

Statue of St. Joseph with the Christ Child at Corpus Christi Church in Brixton, London.

An illustration of Pope Urban IV and Saint Bonaventure listening to Saint Thomas Aquinas presenting the Mass of Corpus Christi in 1264 Unknown artist

The seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit Unknown Artist

Menghini Niccolò , Santa Martina

St. Anthony temptations. The Hours of Henry VIII , Morgan Library

Filippo Lippi - Madonna of the Belt. Detail. 1456 - 1460

Filippo Lippi - Madonna of the Belt. Detail. 1456 - 1460

Église Notre-Dame de Vétheuil.

Pietro di Miniato - Polyptych with Coronation of the Virgin, Saints, Adoration, and other Stories. 1412 - 1413

Giovanni di Lorenzo - The stigmatization of Catherine of Siena (1545).

- Bernardino Luini