>Nurturing, if not maternal per se, is the image of Jesus as Pelican, a
bird believed to feed its young with blood from its own breast.
And, the image survived the MA as (at least) the printer's mark of Sebastian
Cramoisy (I think it was), one of the more prominent French
theological and scholarly publishers of the 17-18th cc.
Quite a nice little woodcut, found on the title pages of his books.
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