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"Monk at Prayer" – J. Ferrer y Pallejà – Meditative Room Art – Beautiful Catholic Art – Catholic Gift – Archival Quality Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):5x7 Black Frame Church is a place ofThis calm scene, for us anyway, when we meditate on it, gives us calm. The friar is praying the rosary. It is early dawn or dusk. The water is utterly placid. For us, the picture has a touch of the sublime, as the Franciscan is alone in what looks like a vast landscape with nothing else in it. 19th Century painters often used sublimity to give the viewer a sense of the nearness of God. Joaquin Ferrer y Pallej (1846 1946) was a Spanish artist. He made