A woman in a long mantle holding a purse from which coins fall, a pelican feeding its young with its own blood at her feet. Charity. The purse and falling coins are almsgiving; the pelican, believed to pierce its breast to feed its chicks, is the medieval emblem of self-sacrificing love. Charita, Speranza and Fede, the three theological virtues, close the fourth group.
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