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I believe the pelican is still on the state flag of Louisiana, the first European settlers of which were French and which is prouder than ever of its French heritage. Elizabeth Whitaker At 12:47 PM 5/1/99 -0700, you 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. > >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. > >cc %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%