St. Francis and St. Dominic
Item
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Title
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St. Francis and St. Dominic
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Artist
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Edward Armitage
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Status
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R. A.
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First Exhibited Date
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1882
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First Exhibited Location
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Royal Academy
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Current Exhibition Location
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St. John the Evangelist Church, Islington
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Lent By
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the artist
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Catalog Number
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1
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Catalog Page
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1
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Catalog Description
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St. Francis and St. Dominic were the two great religious reformers of the thirteenth century--St. Francis, who taught Christian men how they should behave, St. Dominic, who taught them what they should think. Each sent his little company of disciplines, or friars, to teach and preach in all Christian lands, England among the rest; and the memory of the Black Friars of St. Dominic and the Grey Friars of St. Francis survives in the names Blackfriars' bridge and Whitefriars. The artist here shows us the meeting of the two saints amongst the ruins of ancient Rome, the Apostle of Works and the Apostle of Faith shaking hands: "There are diversities of gifts, but it is the same spirit."