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St. Augustine, seated in the center inside a large hall, welcomes and blesses a group of friars in brown robes kneeling in a sign of obedience in front of him, showing them the open book of the Rule placed on a pedestal. Behind his back, eight Augustinian friars in ceremonial vestments are depicted. To the left, at the top, beyond a rectangular window decorated with a shelf with capitals, a urban view composed of four buildings can be seen.
Curiosity: The image is a rare representation of the Great Union of 1256, when the Williamites, a hermitic order founded in the 12th century by Saint William of Malavalle, joined the Augustinians of Tuscia. The event is solemnized by evoking the very presence of St. Augustine of Hippo as the direct patron of the union between the two groups of religious.Title: St. Augustine delivers the rule to the hermits
Author: Anonymous
Date: second half of the 13th century
Technique: Detached fresco
Displayed in: Bruno Molajoli Civic Art Gallery
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