Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture (1913)
Collins, Arthur H · London : Sir I. Pitman · leaf 126
29a … ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE the bird would gaze towards him, thus attract-ing the disease to itself. The charadriuswould then fly up to the sun, where thepoison of the disease would be burned by theheat. This bird had a great thigh-bone, themarrow of which was supposed to restoresight to the blind.…
Christian art and symbolism · Animals in art · Church architecture -- Details · Church decoration and ornament
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