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The freedom of sacred love: the monasterial cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured etching.
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The freedom of sacred love: the monasterial cell as the heaven of the loving soul. Coloured etching.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Libertas amoris. Freÿheit der Liebe. cella amanti coelum est. S. Bernard. Die Zellen oder Clausen fern von allem Welt Getümmel ist meine Freud, mein Seeligkeit und auf der Erd mein Himmel.

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