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| | The Three Archangels in Art - by Eliza Allen Starr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Lucifer, son of the morning, the most resplendent in all those ranks of shining ones, standing nearest to the Beatific Vision, its rainbows breaking over his wings, stands forth in open rebellion to his Maker, drawing with him a third part of the host of heaven. |
 | | But the glorious personality of Saint Michael seizes us in a way not to be resisted, when we come to that golden age in which the inspirations of the devout artist clothed themselves with those beautiful garments which come from a perfect technique, with no loss, but rather a gain, to spirituality. |
 | | The ascent of the Blessed Virgin itself is serene, and is contemplated with silent rapture by those four saints called "the four ambrosial saints," inasmuch as they seem, in their beatitude, to have been nourished on the ambrosia of celestial delights. |
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