Book Title: Innocentia vindicata : in qva gravissimis argumentis ex S. Thoma petitis ostenditur, angelicvm doctorem pro Immaculato Conceptu Deiparæ sensisse & scripsisse. ... / Authore illvstrissimo S.R.I. principe et abbate S. Galli Coelestino Sfondrati.

Author: Sfondrati, Celestino, 1644-1696

Image Title: Enclosed Garden

Description: This emblem depicts a single rose sprouting out of a rock titled with the Latin motto CLAUSA QUO QUE, which roughly translates “enclosed garden,” alluding to dominant Christian iconography of the Virgin Mary as a rose. This emblem is one in a series of 46 published by Cardinal Celestino Sfondrati confirming the Immaculate Conception in nature.

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