The table of the Virgin of Sorrows by Carlo Dolci seems to have inspired Céline for her painting "The Blessed Virgin and Saint Madeleine".
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Ecce Homo!...
Soon you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Almighty God and coming on the clouds of Heaven!......
(Mark 14, 61-62)
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Ecce Mater killed.
(John 19, 27)
Consider and see if there is a pain like my pain!....
