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Pilate is deciding to have him tortured him for a while to perhaps avoid killing him

Next he sent her to a place of sin

The image is beautiful in it own right

Church is a place of peace

"Monk at Prayer" – J. Ferrer y Pallejà – Meditative Room Art – Beautiful Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):5x7 Black Frame and 2" for 18x24 andThis calm scene, for us anyway, when we meditate on it, gives us calm. The friar is praying the rosary. It is early dawn or dusk. The water is utterly placid. For us, the picture has a touch of the sublime, as the Franciscan is alone in what looks like a vast landscape with nothing else in it. 19th Century painters often used sublimity to give the viewer a sense of the nearness of God. Joaquin Ferrer y Pallej (1846 1946) was a Spanish artist. He made