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Tiziano Vecelli (Titian), The Flagellation, c. 1560

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“There is a brilliant man whom you long to draw to your apostolate; there is another, a man of great influence; and a third, full of prudence and virtue.

Pray, offer sacrifices, and work on them with your word and example. They don’t come! Don’t lose your peace: it’s because they are not needed. 

Do you think there were no brilliant and influential and prudent and virtuous contemporaries of Peter outside the apostolate of the first twelve?” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Winning New Apostles” from The Way, #802

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“Through the world still echoes that divine cry: ‘I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and what will I but that it be kindled?’ And you see: it has nearly all died out...

Don’t you want to spread the blaze?”

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Winning New Apostles” from The Way, #801

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The J. Paul Getty Museum launches its new exhibition Miracles and Martyrs: Saints in the Middle Ages today through 2 March 2014. The exhibition will consist of two installations, changing on 1 December. Drawn from the permanent collection, the handmade books on view demonstrate the popularity of saints in the Medieval period and includes several works by Italian artists like these images of St. Catherine painted by Taddeo Crivelli around 1469 for Gualenghi d’Este or St. Jerome by an unknown north Italian artist in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. The third image is a detail from an illustrated legend of Aimo and Vermondo, two men who dedicated themselves to St. Victor.

Further reading: Saints in Art by Rosa Giorgi (2003).

Saint Catherine, Gualenghi d’Este Hours, Ferrara, Taddeo Crivelli, about 1469 

Saint Jerome Extracting a Thorn from a Lion’s Paw, cutting from Master of the Murano Gradual, northern Italy, about 1425-50 

Aimo and Vermondo Holding up the Church of Saint Victor (detail), Legend of the Venerable Men Aimo and Vermondo, Milan, attributed to Anovelo da Imbonate, about 1400

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“The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few. ‘Rogate ergo!’ - ‘Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into his vineyard.’ 

Prayer is the most effective means of winning other apostles.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Winning New Apostles” from The Way, #800

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Inside St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, 2013

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“What amazes you seems quite natural to me: God has sought you out right in the midst of your work.

That is how he sought the first, Peter and Andrew, John and James, beside their nets, and Matthew, sitting in the customhouse. 

And - wonder of wonders - Paul, in his eagerness to destroy the seeds of Christianity!” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Winning New Apostles” from The Way, #799

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“Saint Nicolas Saves Three Inocents From Death”, 1888, Ilya Repin.

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“Reasons? What reasons could the poor Ignatius have given to the wise Xavier?” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Winning New Apostles” from The Way, #798

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The Crucifixion of Christ, 1568, Tintoretto

Source: http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/tintoretto/the-crucifixion-of-christ-1568

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“You know that your way is not clear, and that by not following Jesus closely you remain with that clouded vision. 

Then, what are you waiting for to make up your mind?” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Winning New Apostles” from The Way, #797

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Sts Paul and Antony in the Desert

Artist: Matthias Grunewald

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“Yours is only a small love if you are not zealous for the salvation of all souls. Yours is only a poor love if you are not eager to inflame other apostles with your madness.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Winning New Apostles” from The Way, #796

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Milan Cathedral, Ita lovely art

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“By good example good seed is sown; and charity compels us all to sow.” 

- St. Josemaria Escriva, “Winning New Apostles” from The Way, #795

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Andrea del Sarto, Saint Agnes, 1524.  Pisa, Duomo.