Saturday, May 9, 2009

God is the Friend of Silence


They said of Agatho that for three years he kept a stone in his mouth in order to teach himself silence.


~~Nicholas Lochoff (d.1948) after Fra Angelico (Florentine, 1400?-1455)St. Peter Martyr Enjoining Silence. Original (after 1438)in the Cloister of San Marco, Florence Fresco

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