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Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo, painting of Anthony van Dyck (1624), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Pantaenus (died 200 AD), theologian, saint; Agatha of Catania (231–251 AD), martyr and saint; Lucy of Syracuse (283–304 AD), martyr and saint; Saint Vitus (c. 290–c. 303 AD), martyr and saint
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The ecstasy of Saint Rosalia of Palermo by Theodoor Boeyermans Rosalia was proposed as the patron saint of evolutionary studies in a paper by G.E. Hutchinson . [ 13 ] This was due to a visit he paid to a pool of water downstream from the cave where St. Rosalia's remains were found, where he developed ideas based on observations of water boatmen .
It depicts the nativity of Jesus, with saints Francis of Assisi and Lawrence among other figures surrounding Mary and the newborn Jesus. [3] [2] The painting is about 2.7 metres high and two metres wide. [4] On the night of 17–18 October 1969, [5] two thieves stole the painting from its home in the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo. [4]
Lombardo's body in 2012. Thanks to Salafia's embalming techniques, the body was well-preserved. X-rays of the body show that all the organs are remarkably intact. [4] Rosalia Lombardo's body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the catacomb's street and is encased in a glass covered coffin, placed on a wooden pedestal.
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Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, the recently-deceased brother Silvestro of Gubbio , and placed him in the catacombs.