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Monday, November 7, 2011

Transept of the Lower Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi, attributed to Cimabue

The painting celebrates the humility of St. Francis. Treating humility as the attribute of mental and spiritual strength; a sort of a secret spiritual weapon.
Posted by Dimitri Vorontzov at 9:23 PM
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