Engraving depicting the City of God as imagined

Engraving depicting the City of God as imagined by St. Augustine. At the top are the saints who have already been received into heaven. In the seven compartments below are those who are preparing themselves for heaven by exercising the Christian virtues, or who will be excluded for committing the Seven Deadly Sins. Engraving after a miniature in the 15th-century manuscript translation by Raoul de Presles

15th-century Augustine Committing Compartments Deadly Excluded Exercising Imagined Presles Sins Themselves Translation Virtue Virtues

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