St Bruno and the canon

Le Sueur's paintings of St Bruno in the Carthusian Convent of Paris; one of these depicts the incident which determined St Bruno's conversion — at the funeral of some learned canon, the dead man sat up in his coffin exclaiming that he was damned.

Note from Of Man, the eleventh chapter of 'Characters' by Jean De La Bruyere (1688)

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