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Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture (1913)

Collins, Arthur H · London : Sir I. Pitman · leaf 130

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rLord before the cock crew twice (S. Markxiv. 72). Mrs. Jameson gives a picture whichrepresents S. Peters repentance, from asarcophagus of the third century, where sheunderstands the cock to be a general emblemof human weakness and repentance. The most interesting examples that weknow of are from…

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