Orvieto Cathedral

Usually, it does so in a much more indirect way, by suggestion, by, um, temptation.

Something I featured in the Catholicism series, I think the most frightening religious painting in the world, at the Orvieto Cathedral by the great, uh, early Renaissance master Luca Signorelli, much admired by Michelangelo, by the way.

But you see these frescoes there, and the m- the most striking one is a depiction of the Antichrist.

It shows this figure, the Antichrist, and he's listening as the devil whispers in his ear, so kind of a classic symbol of, of this temptation.

So that's where the discernment really comes in.

One of the things we'll see, like in the Orvieto Cathedral Is that you'll see, like, Homer looking out of his little cell up at the Last Judgment and again, you go, that's not historical but what they're trying to communicate is even pagans acknowledged some things.

Hmm.

You might even see sibyls, which again, like, what? Uh, in an orthodox Chri- lowercase O, uh, orthodox Christian Church but the- what they're trying to communicate is the Jews and the Gentiles prophesied that there was a Messiah coming.