• Thumbnail for Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard (Filippino Lippi)
    rock contains a verse by the 3rd century AD stoic writer Epictetus: Sustine et abstine ("Carry on and abstain"), a hint to Bernard's teachings. Some scholars...
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    Died May 13, 1908(1908-05-13) (agedĀ 67) Canton, Ohio Buried Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Motto Sustine et abstine (Sustain and abstain) Signature...
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    topped by the upper part of the portal, which bears the Stoic motto SUSTINE ET ABSTINE, "Bear, and forbear", which the jurisconsult Jean de Coras, an illustrious...
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