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Updated: May 17, 2025
Everyone was present, there were several speeches and, when we were coming down the slippery mountain path after it was all over, he said to me: "You know, there's nothing for it now but to write that book about the Sacro Monte at once. It must be the next thing I do."
Signor Fabiani brought the pitcher from the stream and Luigi cups from the house-wagon, and there they all sat, as thick as thieves, drinking healths and wishing one another a prosperous pilgrimage. The Fabiani family had never been to Alenon. This was one of the few parts of the world into which their fame had not yet spread. All the more their profit and glory! Sacro mento!
Another reason and one which every Scot will understand why lowland heroes "carent vate sacro," is that the lowlands and those who live in them are wanting in the poetic and romantic elements.
After the first moment of numbness he recognised the arch on the right, where the road begins which leads down to Santa Scolastica, to Subiaco, to Rome; and on the left the path which rises toward the Sacro Speco.
One is the enumeration of Pompey's exploits "Quod si tam sacro dignaris nomine saxum " The other is the character which Cato gives of Pompey, "Civis obit, inquit " a pure gem of rhetoric, without one flaw, and, in my opinion, not very far from historical truth. When I consider that Lucan died at twenty-six, I cannot help ranking him among the most extraordinary men that ever lived.
Bathing in the water which sometimes, after heavy rains, sings in the Pucceia Valley to the east of the monastery, and cuts in rivulets across the road to the Sacro Speco, below Santa Crocella, was the only physical pleasure in which Benedetto allowed himself to indulge.
Frescoes at Saronno and in the Sacro Monte at Varallo. The whole lake-district of Italy, where the valleys of Monte Rosa and the Simplon descend upon the plain of Lombardy, is rich in works of this school. At Luino and Lugano, on the island of San Giulio, and in the hill-set chapels of the Val Sesia, may be found traces of frescoes of incomparable beauty.
Benedict, which is said to date from the fifth century, and which has never been profaned by ax or hatchet. Beyond it the path narrows, and a steep winding stair, just wide enough to admit one person at a time, leads to the platform before the second convent, which up to that moment is entirely concealed. Its name, Sacro Speco, commemorates the holy cave of St. Benedict.
"Haec requies mea in saeculum saeculi: Hic habitabo quoniam elegi eam." The monk laid aside his mitre and crosier and said, "Confirma hoc Deus, quod operatus es in nobis." And the postulant murmured, "A templo sacro tuo quod est in Jerusalem."
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