Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt.

  • Blunt, John J. (John James), 1794-1855.
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Vestiges of ancient manners and customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily / By the Rev. John James Blunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In Pellegrino’s gloomy cell, For Christ thou bid’st the world farewell ; And musing there in heavenly love, Hold’st converse with the powers above. To deck that brow thy spouse bestows A lily here, and there a rose ; While stand confess’d before thy view, Our Lady and the apostles too. When in a consecrated room annexed to the chapel of S. Catharine at Sienna, I found it recorded upon a similar tablet, ‘that in that house S. Catharine one day felt an amorous longing, (amorose smanie), to see her divine husband; that two very beautiful angels ap- peared to her to comfort her; but that she turning to them said, ‘it is not you I want, but him who created you,’ ” &c.: when in the same manner I saw it proclaimed, ‘ that un- der that roof she had been married to Jesus Christ on the day of the carnival, in the pre- sence of the most blessed Virgin Mary, of King David, who played upon the harp, of St. John the Evangelist, of St. Paul and St. Dominic :” when on entering the church