>The long bottom panel was of the twelve apostles, and one of the apostles
>was reading a book held in one hand, holding a sword on the other that
>rested on his shoulder, and was wearing glasses.
Holding a book indicates that the saint wrote a book: one of the four
evangelists, or Paul, or Peter or James or Jude would fill the bill.
The sword is the saint's instrument of martyrdom. This would limit it to St
Paul (regularly shown holding a sword), or James. Peter was crucified, and
in any case is always shown carrying a set of keys.
Could the glasses be an allusion to 1 Cor 13:12 "Now we see through a glass
darkly"? :-)
Oriens.
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