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Painting of an elderly bearded saint with an X-shaped cross, wrapped in gold drapery under a dark stormy sky.

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It shows an elderly bearded man with bare chest, draped in golden-yellow cloth with blue lining, raising his arms beside a diagonal X-shaped cross against a dark, stormy sky.

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