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"Monk at Prayer" – J. Ferrer y Pallejà – Meditative Room Art – Beautiful Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival QualityThis calm scene, for us anyway, when we meditate on it, gives us calm. The friar is praying the rosary. It is early dawn or dusk. The water is utterly placid. For us, the picture has a touch of the sublime, as the Franciscan is alone in what looks like a vast landscape with nothing else in it. 19th Century painters often used sublimity to give the viewer a sense of the nearness of God. Joaquin Ferrer y Pallej (1846 1946) was a Spanish artist. He made

we have felt the hand of our guardian angel intervene and keep us from calamity

deep faith

You can find it online

That is the Gospel

St Don Bosco (St

She died in 1909

all shall be well

as he is in the poem this illustrates

That's why they say her help is "perpetual

in Ignatius's left hand is a copy of the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus

Charles-Éléonore Dufriche-Desgenettes

protecting beautiful damsels