The Immaculate, Conception.
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2.
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
A "
table of the Conception
"
stood on the high altar of the
Church of St.
Margaret, Westminster.
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The Conception of our Ladye has been treated in two ways :
historical and...
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The Immaculate, Conception.
227
2.
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
A "
table of the Conception
"
stood on the high altar of the
Church of St.
Margaret, Westminster.
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The Conception of our Ladye has been treated in two ways :
historical and symbolical.
I.
The historical supposes the representation of events and
circumstances under which the mystery was operated, and these
visible circumstances denote the hidden mystery.
Of these
historical representations there are four types :
r.
The first is
designed from the account of the Conception
of our Ladye which is
supplied by the apocryphal gospel of her
nativity, and the proto-gospcl of Jacob.
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It represents St.
Anne,
in her garden at prayer, receiving by the mouth of an angel
the promise of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Maryc, her
daughter, and St.
Joachim receiving the same promise in the
mountains whither he had retired.
The "Guide of Painting"
of Mount Athos follows this ancient narration almost word for
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