And, in the spirit shameless (institutional) self-promotion, the image of
Jesus as Pelican perseveres as the official seal of the College of St.
Elizabeth, where I teach, write, and read all of your informative posts!
John Marlin
The College of St. Elizabeth
Morristown, NJ USA
On 1 May 1999, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> >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.
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> Cramoisy (I think it was), one of the more prominent French
> theological and scholarly publishers of the 17-18th cc.
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> Quite a nice little woodcut, found on the title pages of his books.
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