I was moved by this image of St. Donatus of Arezzo, painted by Pietro Lorenzetti for the Church of Santa maria della Pieve in Arezzo (1320), and recently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Donatus is a saint for our political moment, witnessing, as we are, to incredible acts of destruction by damagers.

From Wikipedia:

“During a celebration of Mass, at the moment of the giving of Communion, in which a glass chalice was being administered, some pagans [sic] entered the church and shattered the chalice in question. Donatus, after intense prayer, collected all of the fragments and joined them together. There was a piece missing from the bottom of the cup; miraculously, however, nothing spilled from the cup”