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All the Santa Giulias I've seen have been upright.
As Tom Izbicki noted, the shape of that cross does make one think of
Andrew. Perhaps what appears to some as a dress is really an attempt
to represent male Scots attire by someone who'd never seen a real
kilt. This assumes that the painter of the Burton saint will have been
more familiar with St. Andrew, the Scots pretender, than with the
apostle whose true relics -- as all in Campania know -- are housed in
the cathedral at Amalfi.
Best,
John Dillon
On Wednesday, December 7, 2005, at 1:48 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Your crucifixion scene makes me think of Julia of Corsica. Would
> anyone in medieval England have heard of her? Her relics were at
> Brescia and attracted pilgrims. I could only find one image of
> her
> and it's right-side up, though.
>
> http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.catholic-
> forum.com/saints/saintj0n.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.catholic-
forum.com/saints/saintj0n.htm&h=273&w=266&sz=22&tbnid=-
56lQ_07tHYJ:&tbnh=108&tbnw=105&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djulia%
2Bcorsica%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8
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