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The Transfiguration 6th August
Though increasingly known in the later Middle Ages, the feast was not universal until imposed by Calixtus III in 1457.Kept in the East since the fourth or fifth century.
Wareham St Mary, Norfolk, east window, 2c-3c:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3281329403
From the cloister glazing of the Premonstratensian abbey of Steinfeld, in Germany, carried out c1522-57.
and detail:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/3281331767
Saint-Nicholas-de-Port, Bay 111, remaining parts of Transfiguration by Valentin Bousch, 1514-20:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15620713211
detail of Elijah:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15624227212
Christ:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/15624231552
Moses:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4129763021
Gordon Plumb
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