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are four saints “militant here on earth.” But it is the domes themselves whose meaning is most evidently connected. In all, the same Figure is seen in the centre, surrounded in the first by the prophets of the Old Testament, in the second by the Apostles, in the third by the heavenly choirs, the three together thus proclaiming the promise, the ministry, and the triumph of the prophesied, crucified, and glorified Christ.

SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS,

DOMINUS, DEUS, OMNIPOTENS,

QUI ERAT, QUI EST, ET QUI VENTURUS EST.

Rev. iv. 8.

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