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St. Eulalia (of Mérida, of Barcelona):
Bernat Martorell's depiction of her Passion
http://www.museuepiscopalvic.com/colPintGot.asp?f=7
I've failed to find a larger image of that. So this fifteenth-century miniature of E.'s Passion (Paris, BN, ms. Français 51, fol. 82v) will probably suit your needs better:
http://tinyurl.com/2wd5pf
Context:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/Catalogue/noticesInd/MAN00747.htm
St. Devota of Corsica (venerated in Monaco and Corsica) is another whose Passio has her soul depart in the form of a dove. Here are a few modern representations of her showing the dove:
http://tinyurl.com/2gmqk6
http://tinyurl.com/22alqv
http://www.curagiu.com/saintedevote.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2xytee
http://tinyurl.com/26uxou
http://www.eglise-catholique.mc/it/motscles/devote.htm
Best,
John Dillon
PS: 'Seps' for 'Spes' was a great typo. Is this the Holy Seps?:
http://tinyurl.com/yurv7s
On Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at 1:39 pm, Meg Cormack wrote:
>
> Greetings all,
> I´m wondering with those of you who are technological whizzes and up-to-date
> on electronic sites could suggest some links where I might find
> 1) standeard depictions of the soul, in human form, being extracted
> from the
> mouth of the dying person and/or accompanied upward by angels;
> 2) depictions of the departing soul in the form of a bird (dove); I´d
> expect
> to find this in illustrations of the death of St. Scholastica, or one
> abbot
> Seps in Nursia, both mentioned in the dialogues of Gregory teh great;
> 3)again from Gregory (or elsewhere), the soul of Theodoric (or, for
> that matter,
> anyone else) being tossed into Mt. Etna (or any other volcano!)
>
> This is not for publication (yet!) but for a lecture, where all links
> will
> be appropriately indicated. Which reminds me that the illustrations need
> to be of adequate quality that they can be projected.
>
> Thanks, by the way, to all those who suggested these passages in the
> first place!
>
> Meg Cormack
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