(Slideshow) St. Joseph, master of the “Art of Dying Well”

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Jacques Stella, 1655

One of the earliest versions of the death of St. Joseph was produced by the French painter Jacques Stella. Inside the austere enclosed space, St. Joseph confesses his fear of Death, as Jesus points to himself as the path to Eternal Life.

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© Jacques Stella | Public Domain

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