It was the artist Giotto who got me really interested in “The Poverello”. Symbols and beauty so often speak louder than words…
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Before the Cross
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Praying
before a cross
and
it
spoke
to
him.
Prayer, silence, meditation, and the resulting insights and visions – there are many of these recorded about Francis of Assisi. There is the voice from the crucifix (as painted by Giotto, above), the vision of the palace, the vision of the six-winged seraph that resulted in the legendary stigmata…And Giotto wasn’t the only artist called to record them in wondrous frescoes.
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Which symbols speak to us today?
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What beauty calls us deeper?
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Do we have any kind of sense of being called to work towards a vision?
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Who are our inspirers?
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