Subject: | | Re: saints' emblems |
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Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 5 Mar 2000 09:25:08 +0000 (GMT)463_iso-8859-1 Interim Saints - March 5th
PHOCAS, martyr (about A.D. 320)
At Antioch, after many sufferings endured for the name of Christ, Phocas triumphed over the Old Serpent, a victory which is testified, to this day, by a miracle. for whoever is bitten by a serpent, having touched, full of faith, the door of the basilica of the martyr, is immediately cured, the poison at once losing its power; so says the Roman Martyrology. [...]51_5Mar200009:25:08+0000(GMT)[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:52:46 +0000 |
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> Many thanks to both Oriens and the wild one for confirming my surmise about
> Philip. He and Andrew (who also appears in the John 6 narrative) are among
> the 6 apostles chosen to decorate the canopy of honour over the altar at
> Gyffin in north Wales. I was hoping the emblem did refer to the miracle as
> of course it does give his depiction some eucharistic significance.
Dear Maddy,
Although primarily a Byzantine subject, the context brings to mind
the Communion of the Apostles, in which, typically, Christ appears
twice, behind a central canopied altar, distributing respectively the
bread and the wine to the Apostles, lined up on either side. It
commonly occupied the lower apse walls of Byzantine churches.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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