medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Sunday, May 13, 2007, at 10:20 pm, I wrote (apropos St. Servatius, legendarily connected by birth to the Holy Family):
> Not to miss this page on a very unusual mid-fifteenth-century Danish
> statue (view is expandable) of a saint with S. as her attribute:
> http://tinyurl.com/32gbry
Here's a larger image (one of these, prob. the one linked to from the English-language page, is reversed):
http://www.vhm.dk/vhmfortmm.html
And here's an early sixteenth-century (1511) depiction of the child S. (again mitred) with his legendary mother Memelia on the rear of the Sippenaltar in the Elisabethkirche in Marburg an der Lahn (Kr. Marburg-Biedenkopf) in Hessen:
http://tinyurl.com/yosxat
More (illustrated; German-language text) on this piece, which celebrates the extended Holy Family:
http://www.elisabethkirche.de/rundgang/ix-nss02.htm
Best again,
John Dillon
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