A request for help from learned members. I used to have bookmarked on my
computer a website which arranged saints by their emblems. The link to it
has gone down and I don't have a note of the URL. Does anyone know?
I was looking for the website because a colleague of mine has found a lead
holy water ampulla on a site he is excavating. The ampulla has a pattern
which looks like a net or basket with something poking out of the top. My
immediate thought was St Philip but I don't know of a shrine to him nearer
than Rome, nor a well dedicated to him. Though I suppose holy water for an
ampulla could also be from the washing down of a shrine or reliquary....
Any ideas, anyone?
I don't know whether I've mentioned this one on this list already - if so,
apologies.
Many thanks in anticipation
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
(Department of Humanities and Science
UWCN Caerleon Campus
PO Box 179
Newport NP18 3YG
Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
http://humanities.newport.ac.uk/HIST.html)
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