Sanctity: 'St Francis in Meditation' mb-height 2171 Illustration from Pepys Diary

Illustration from Pepys Diary

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the eastern towhee

Ornithological study showing a side view of the Red-necked phalarope (here described as Tringa hyperborea

Sanctity: 'St Francis in Meditation' mb-height 2171 Illustration from Pepys DiarySanctity: 'St Francis in Meditation', 1635 1639 (1956). St Francis of Assisi (1181 1226), founder of the Franciscan order of monks. From the National Gallery, London. A print from Ideas, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.