22 The Holy Spirit, as well as the Almighty Father, was sometimes, though rarely, represented with a triangular nimbus, fig. 33, sufficiently ex¬ pressive of its reference to the Trinity. The same allusion is indicated by the trine arrangement of three groups of rays pro¬ ceeding from the… … same subject. These exam¬ ples are all indications of the same idea : the actual presence of the Holy Trinity in the one person represented or sym¬ bolized, without any reference whatever to the Cross of our Lord’s passion. St. John the Baptist announced the presence cf the Saviour in the words “…
Nimbus (Art) · Christian art and symbolism
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