| Wall Painting in the former Refectory, now Library, of the Nuns' Abbey of Seligenthal. Bernard on the left in a grey cowl, his right hand raised in blessing, with his crozier under his right arm and a book in his left hand facing, on the right, St Benedict in a black cowl with the attribute of beaker and snake in his right hand and crozier and book in his left hand. Between them is Jacob's Ladder, the Ladder of Humility with twelve rungs from the 7th chapter of Benedicts's Rule. A tiny Cistercian nun in grey habit and black veil has reached the seventh rung of the ladder which is held up by two angels and surmounted by a Cross and the initials IHS. The painting may have originated after the re-building in 1484 but was extensively restored in the seventeeth century.
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