This, like other pietàs would have been a purely devotional image, meant for religious contemplation.

The frescoes depict biblical scenes meant to encourage religious contemplation by the monk who lived in the cell.

About 525 he again left for Palestine, and remained there for the rest of his life, living a life of religious contemplation.

Philo shows that religious contemplation had much in common with other forms of creativity.

Fierce passion and devotion are tempered by a mood of religious contemplation.

Although attracted to philosophical and religious contemplation, he was unwilling to give up marriage and career.

During this time, Blackwell soothed her own doubts about her choice and her loneliness with deep religious contemplation.

Then he regards a group of small white phallic sculptures with the intensity reserved for religious contemplation.

Objects identified with religious contemplation do not allow privacy.

Ferreolus was apparently living a life of religious contemplation after 469 though there is no indication he ever took orders.