Dear List,
I was hoping for help with a problem I have encountered while looking
at a depiction of a 'Murder of the Innocents': the top-half of the
image depicts a Christ Child in a mandorla, carrying a cross, and
above His head is a stone tablet which bears the inscription:
'Innocentes et recti adheserunt mihi'. Having looked this inscription
up, it stems from Psalm 24,21- not from Matt2:16 where the story is
told. Is the line used in the office celebrated on the feast day of
the Innocents?
Gabriele Neher
Department of Art History,
University of Nottingham
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