SAINT EPHREM THE SYRIAN

An engraved portrait shows Saint Ephrem the Syrian as an elderly monk with a long, white beard and a halo. He wears a monastic habit and a cowl marked with a small cross. He stands on a tiled floor and holds an open scroll in his right hand. The portrait is set within a rectangular border. At the bottom of the frame, a Latin couplet is inscribed on a banner.

LOVE
AND
SELF-CONTROL
PURIFY
THE
SOUL.
original: "Ἠ ΑΓΆΠΗ ΚΑῚ ἘΓΚΡΆΤΕΙΑ ΨΥΧῊΝ ΚΑΘΑΙΡΟΥ͂ΣΙΝ"

This is the venerable face of the marvelous Syrian, Ephrem

Yet his eloquent writings show the likeness of his soul

original Latin: "Hæc Veneranda Syri facies mirabilis Ephræm / Ast animi effigiem scripta diserta docent"

OF SAINT

EPHREM THE SYRIAN

THE COMPLETE WORKS

DIVIDED INTO SIX VOLUMES. original: "IN SEX TOMOS DISTRIBUTA"

The Reverend H. Hyvernat, D. D. Henri Hyvernat (1858 to 1941) was a distinguished scholar of Near Eastern languages and a founding professor at the Catholic University of America. He established the Institute of Christian Oriental Research. Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. von baron? Complete Volume 2 original: "Completo Tomo 2º"