medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Saturday, July 3, 2010, at 2:13 pm, I wrote:
> 1) Thomas the Apostle (d. 1st cent.)....
> Deriving from T.'s Doubting is his role in various stories of the
> Assumption of the BVM in which, in the miraculous absence or blindness
> of the other apostles, he both is allowed to witness the Virgin's
> ascent and receives from her as tangible proof the cincture that she
> was wearing and that previously had been given her by the apostles.
> Herewith, mostly from Tuscany, where in the city of Prato veneration
> of an object believed to be the _Sacra Cintola_ in its entirety is at
> least as old as the thirteenth century ..., some visuals of T. either receiving this relic or
> else passing it on to the priest who in legend erects a chapel to
> house it:
Well, after revision the visuals were no longer mostly from Tuscany. And they would have been even less mostly from Tuscany had I remembered to link to this depiction in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) of the nave in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending on one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:
http://tinyurl.com/32q8c36
http://tinyurl.com/38c92ec
Detail (showing the belt in T.'s outstretched hands):
http://tinyurl.com/2v9amyh
Detail (angel supporting T.):
http://tinyurl.com/2u9xuky
Best again,
John Dillon
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