Saint Martha and the plague.

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Saint Martha and the plague. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Fresco painting said to represent St. Martha protecting under her cloak members of a brotherhood devoted to burying the bodies of plague victims; in the church of St. Martha at Carona, near Lugano.

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