No gigantes, sino humildes.”[198]
[192] The upper church is of the Gothic style; the lower one, Lombard; and the crypt, Grecian.
[193] Ozanam.
[194] Dante’s actual words:
“With Christ she mounted on the cross,
When Mary stayed beneath.”
[195] In this allegory we have followed, in part the interpretation of M. Ozanam.
[196] This is carved.
[197] Several other saints have had the happiness of being born in a stable, as St. Joseph de Copertino and St. Camillo de Lellis; the latter from a pious wish of his mother that he might come into the world like the Son of God.
[198] Your cord is the ladder of Jacob; we have seen not the mighty, but the lowly of heart, mount up by its knots to the empyreal heaven.