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Cyber Sin Site Is Launched December 20, 2001 8:25 am EST

LONDON (Reuters) - The Seven Deadly Sins are now accessible online after a British university launched an image database of the forbidden acts.

The University of Leicester in central England compiled the images of transgression from churches across England and Wales.

The database also displays the virtuous acts of the Seven Corporal Works of Mercy.

"The pictures are exaggerated and explicit -- drunkards vomiting, misers counting their hoards, sluggards dozing," art history researcher Miriam Gill said.

"They are rather like a modern public information campaign, delivering a strong spiritual health warning," she added.

The Seven Deadly Sins were common subjects for wall paintings in Britain between the 14th and 16th centuries.

The Web site's address is http://www.le.ac.uk/arthistory/resource/resources.html

-- Anonymous, December 21, 2001


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