The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-27


ermined to quit the world and devote himself TO re-
ligion and prayer was then nine years Of age. He
placed me In the Academy Of Arts, wound up his af
fairs and retired to remote convent where he short
ly afterwards assumed the tonsure. There, by the
severity of his life and by the unwearied punctuay
with which he fulfilled the rules OF his order, ne
struck the whole brotherhood with the most nm
bounded surprise and Animation The presiding
superior Of the monastery, hearing OF his skill as
painter, requested him to execute alar-pecc for
the convent chapel. But the devout brother declared
that his pencil had been polluted by great sin, and
that he must purify himself by modification long
penance before he could dare apply TO holy pur
pose. He then, of his own accord, gradually in
creased the austerity of his monastic life. Al last
the utmost prvations he could nfict on himself ap-
pearing TO him insufficient, he retired, with the bles-
sing OF the SUPERIOR to court solitude IN the desert
There he'bu himselfa hermitage out OF the branch
es of trees lived on uncooked roots, dragged heavy
| stone with him wherever he went, and stood from
sunrise TO sunset with his hands uplted to heaven,
fervently praying. His penances and notifications
were such as we lind examples OF only in the lives
OF the saints. For many years he followed this aus
tere manner OF life, and his brethren at the convent
had given up all hopes of again seeing him, when
one day he suddenly appeared amongst them. Il
am ready he said firmly and calmly to the supe-
rior; with the help OF God, will begin my task -
The object he selected was the Birth of Christ For
a whole year he labored necessarily at his picture,
without leaving his CELL nourishing himself with the
coarses food, and rigid in the fument Of his reli-
gious duties AT the end of that time the picture
was completed. 1t was miracle of art. Neither the
brethren nor the superior were profound critics Of
painting, but they were awe7struck by the extraor-
binary sublimty of the figures. The sentiment OF d.
vine tranquility and mildness In the Holy Mother,
bending over the infant Jesus-the profound and &C.
lestia Intelligence In the eyes OF the Babe-he sol
emn silence and dlgnihed humility oil the three Wise
Men PROSTATE at his feet-the holy, unspeakable
calm breathed over the whole work-the combined
impression OF all this was magical. The brethren
bowed the Knee before the picture, and the superior
deeply affected, pronounced blessing on the artist
NO mere human art he said, could have produced
picture like this. power from on high has guided
thy pencil my son. and the blessing of heaven has
descended on the work Of thy hands,
" About this time finished my education in the
Academy; received the gold medal and at the same
time realized the delicious hope of being sent to
Italythe cherished dream of the boy-artis Before
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