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The Shaw neighborhood in near south St. Louis City is bounded by Interstate 44, Grand Blvd., Tower Grove Park, and the Missouri Botanical Garden. The president of Shaw Neighborhood Improvement Association (SNIA) invited Shaw neighborhood residents to…

Nativity. Here the infant Christ holds the egg, foreshadowing later events.

Lauds: Visitation. Who is greeting whom? In the visitation scene, Elizabeth, the future mother of John the Baptist, meets Mary, the future mother of Christ. Behind them is the house of Zacharias, Elizabeth's husband. As the illustration seems to…

St. John writing next to his symbol the eagle.

Flight into Egypt. See Flight into Egypt, section III.

Flight into Egypt. See Flight into Egypt, section III.

Giovanni Vendramin founded a new Venetian Hebrew press under his name in 1630, establishing himself as a rival to the long-reigning Bragadin family. Vendramin is widely regarded as the last of the great Venetian printers of Hebrew books. The firm…

Alvise Bragadin (also Bragadini) was born in the early 1500s and settled in his hometown of Venice, where he became a renowned Christian printer of Hebrew books. He founded the firm Stamparia Bragadina which enjoyed wild success during his lifetime…