- Description
- The Portrait of the Blessed Gabriel — The picture given as the frontispiece of this book is made after a painting by the Italian artist, Professor Grandi, preserved in our retreat of the Scala Santa in Rome. The original painting is so well done, that artists declare it to be impossible to reproduce its expression exactly. There is no authentic portrait of the blessed servant of God in existence: Grandi's having been made from the descriptions of those who knew him best. F. Norbert ( it:Norberto Cassinelli ) says: "Oh, how much more handsome was the dear servant of God!" However, this has become the popular representation of the holy youth; and strange to say, in the various manifestations in which Gabriel has appeared to those who have invoked him, he has shown himself so strikingly like his picture, that on seeing it, they declared "that the young Passionist looked just like that!" —— Hage, Hyacinth; Ward, Nicholas (1910) "XIV. His Cheerfulness" in The Life of Blessed Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows , Philadelphia : H. L. Kilner & Co., p. 125
- Source file
- Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows.png
- Creator
- Professor Grandi
