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cap. iii. section 2); secondly, that as the medical profession does
not exclude that of artists, St. Luke may have been both artist and
physician; that he did actually handle both the brush and the scalpel
is established by respectable and very old traditions, to say nothing
of other arguments which can be found in impartial and learned writers
upon such matters."
I will only give one more extract. It runs:--
"In 1855 a celebrated Roman portrait-painter, after having carefully
inspected the image of the Virgin Mary at Oropa, declared it to be
certainly a work of the first century of our era." {313}
I once saw a common cheap china copy of this Madonna announced as to be
given away with two pounds of tea, in a shop near Hatton Garden.
The church in which the sacred image is kept is interesting from the
pilgrims who at all times frequent it, and from the collection of votive
pictures which adorn its walls. Except the votive pictures and the
pilgrims the church contains little of interest, and I will pass on to
the constitution and objects of the establishment.
The objects are--1. Gratuitous lodging to all comers for a space of from
three to nine days as the rector may think fit. 2. A school. 3. Help to
the sick and poor. It is governed by a president and six members, who
form a committee.
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