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374 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
“What did you see in Orvieto?” the pope asked
him.
Father Gondo said that in one of the chapels of
the Cathedral he had found some frescoes of Luca
Signorelli, representing “ The Last Judgment.”
But he had not looked at either the “Last
Judgment” or at the “Resurrection of The Dead.”
He had fixed all his attention on the big
painting which the guide called “The Miracles of
Antichrist.”
“What did you see in it?” asked the pope.
“ I saw that Signorelli had painted Antichrist as
a poor and lowly man, just as the Son of God was
when he lived here on earth. I saw that he had
dressed him like Christ and given him Christ’s
features.
“What more did you see? “ said the pope.
“ The first thing that I saw in the fresco was
Antichrist preaching so that the rich and the mighty
came and laid their treasures at his feet.
“The second thing I saw was a sick man brought
to Antichrist and healed by him.
“The third thing I saw was a martyr proclaiming
Antichrist and suffering death for him.
“The fourth thing I saw in the great wall-picture
was the people hastening to a great temple of peace,
the spirit of evil hurled from heaven, and all men of
violence killed by heaven’s thunderbolts.”
“What did you think when you saw that?” asked
the pope.
“When I saw it, I thought: ’ That Signorelli was
mad. Does he mean that in the time of Antichrist
evil shall be conquered, and the earth become holy
as a paradise ?’ ”
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