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Saints and virgins:  Who's who? (3/7)

In front of certain tympanums, statues, columns, capitals or stained glass windows of   Romanesque or Gothic churches, we are sometimes unable to identify the characters represented.
However, there are simple means for recognizing them:


Andrea Mantegna (1456-59)
Paneau. 255 X 140 cm.
Museum of the Louvre, Paris.


1: Who was this head of a Praetorian troop of the guard of Diocletien who was condemned to die pierced by arrows?

AAugustin
BMartin
CSebastien

2: Did he die following this torment?

AYes
BNo, he survived and died of old age
CNo, he survived and died later after being whipped to death

3: Who is this virgin martyr?

ABertha
BApolline.
CMarguerite

4: Why does she hold  pliers in her hand?

AShe used it to catch and retain the Devil by the tail

BWith this tool she would have removed the nails of Christ crucified

CThe torturer tortured her by pulling out her teeth with pliers.


Francisco de Zurbaran (1636)
Oil on fabric. 113 X 66 cm.
Museum of the Louvre, Paris.



Hans Memling
(1485-90)
Oil on panel. 87,8 X 59,2 cm.
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basle.

5: Who is this father of the Latin Church?

AJerome
BMartial
CGilles

He can be recognized because he generally wears a cardinal's red hat .
He was also hermit in the desert in Egypt, the reason for a beard and sometimes a simple cloth around the body.
Another of his attrivites is the skull which would be used by him to meditate on death.
And almost always one finds him with a book (a gret intellectual, he is the principal author of the Vulgate , the translation in Latin of the Bible.

6: Why is it often accompanied by a lion?

AHe died devoured by a lion

BHe withdrew a spine out of the foot and the animal, grateful, became his faithful companion

CEtymologically, his name in Greek means   "lion"

(After having answered, click here to see a painting of the same artist representing this scene)
7: Who is this virgin martyr who sponsors musicians?

ATheresa
BMartha
CCecilia

8: At the time of her marriage, during the profane wedding music, she sang the praises of God, of whom she asked:

Ato preserve her heart without blemish and her  body pure

Bto recover her sight, because she was blind from birth

C to allow her to join Him soon

This Roman, promised in marriage to Valerien whom she converts, is usually represented with a musical instrument, often a small organ, or is accompanied by an angel musician.

Raphaël Sanzio  (1514)
Oil on fabric, transferred from a panel. 220 X 136 cm.
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna.

 


' Gregory I, the Great'
Carlo Saraceni (about 1610)
Oil on fabric. 102 X 73 cm.
Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Antica, Rome.


This great doctor of the Latin Church  and Pope often wears the  papal tiara, white with three crowns (which symbolize the spiritual power, temporal direct on his states, and temporal on the terrestrial princes).

9: Why is one of his personal symbol the dove?

AIt is the dove of the Holy Spirit which indicated him to become Pope by landing  on him

BThe dove  inspires him and  sometimes speaks to him in his ear

CHe supported and encouraged the voyage of Christophe Colombus, which made it possible thereafter to christianize the New World


10: Which of the following assertions is false?

AHe introduced the Gregorian calendar, used today almost everywhere throughout the world, and which replaced the Julien calendar

BHe wrote the final liturgy of the mass and the Gregorian rite

CIt founded a school of music, Schola Cantorum where one trains clerks who will propagate the song of the liturgy known since under the name of "Gregorian chant"







page carried out on an idea of  David Tarradas Agea


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dictionary of the saints
patron saint 01
patron saint 02
patron saint 03
Sebastien saint
Jerome saint
holy Cecile 01
holy Cecile 02


Some interesting links:

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