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ii;. I!). Miniature of the "City of God," by St. Augustine, translated by Raoul de Presles. Manuscript 

 of the Fifteenth Century. St. Genevieve Library. The upper enclosure represents the saints who have 

 been already received into heaven ; the seven lower enclosures represent those who are preparing them- 

 selves, by the exercise of Christian virtues, for the heavenly kingdom, or who are excluding themselves 

 from it by committing one or other of the seven capital sins. 



