Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture (1896)
Evans, E. P. (Edward Payson), 1831-1917 · New York : H. Holt · leaf 143
gan urn to the Christian sarcophagus.Sometimes a date-palm is used to express thesame idea; and very frequently the tree and thebird appear together. Mosaics in many earlyChristian churches, as for example in SS. Cosmae Damiano, St. Prassede, and St. Cecilia in Traste-vere, represent the phoenix… … 128 Animal Symbolism A similar type of the atoning Christ is the pelican, tearing open its breast and feeding its young with its own blood. When they are partly grown they smite their parents in the face and the old birds kill them; but no sooner do the parents perceive what they have done than…
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