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A Visit to the Holy Land

CHAPTER XVIII
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The neighbouring church of St.Pieta, on the contrary, can be called large and grand.

The facades are ornamented with pillars of marble, the altar is richly gilt, and handsome frescoes deck the ceiling.

St.Domenigo, another fine church, possesses, my cicerone assured me, the largest organ in the world.

If he had said the greatest _he had seen_, I could readily have believed him.
In St.Ignazio, or Olivazo, near a minor altar at one side, we find a painting representing the Virgin and the infant Jesus.

The sacristan persisted that this was a work of Raphael's.


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