medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
There is a nice C15 reliquary of St. Martha (same Martha?) in the
Louvre. I have images shot as displayed
www.KornbluthPhoto.com/StMarthaHandReliquary.html
and the museum's web site in studio lighting
http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/reliquary-hand-st-martha
Martha is depicted by Giusto de' Menabuoi in Padua:
www.KornbluthPhoto.com/PaduaBaptisteryGeneral.html
row 5 no. 4, figure in purple next to John.
best,
Genevra
On 7/29/2016 4:25 AM, John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Martha, the sister of Mary of Bethany and of Lazarus of Bethany, appears three times in the Gospels, at Luke 10:38-42, John 11:1-44, and John 12:1-3. In a medieval legend popular in the Latin West, e.g. in her late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Vita by pseudo-Marcilia (BHL 5545-5546) or in Jacopo da Varazze's abbreviation in his later thirteenth-century _Legenda aurea_, cap. 105, she accompanied Mary Magdalene (understood to be the same person as Mary of Bethany) and Lazarus to Provence and was active there as a missionary before dying at, and being buried at, Tarascon, the town she had freed from a man-eating monster (called, in modern French, la Tarasque).
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