Image from an illustrated version of Life and Passion of Christ published in China. The author Giulio Alenio was a sixteenth-century Italian missionary, and, like the new pope, was a member of the Society of Jesus. The book is now in the Houghton Library of Harvard University. http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/27496573?n=1&printThumbnails=true
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