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’Bernard of Menthon enters Augustinian chapter.’

	The first of six scenes from the life of St. Bernard (923- 1008) in the St. Sebastian chapel of Roure, a village 45 km north of Nice, shows the saint entering the Augustinian chapter in Aosta. Bernard is kneeling while one of the monks administers the laying on of hands in the presence of two fellow monks. The fresco was executed in 1510 by Andrea de Cella, one of the so-called 'peintres primitifs niçois' (primitive painters of Nice). Photo Mick Palarczyk.