Iconography

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Germany / Bertoldshofen / St. Michael / Choir - Dome / Bottom section - saints

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Saints A - Z / Gall (OSB) / Single figure
Saints / Saints A - Z / Magnus of Füssen / Life / Tozzo, holding a miraculously burning candle, comes to the tomb of St Gall and offers to lead Magnoald and Theodor to Augsburg (Otloh, Vita, cap. 14; Stempfle, Leben, cap. 14)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Tozzo of Augsburg / On Pilgrimage to the tomb of St Gaul, carrying a candle miraculously lit every evening and extinguished every morning, welcomed by SS Magnus and Theodore

Further details

The scene probably refers to Tozzo's pilgrimage to the tomb of St Gall, holding a candle that was miraculously lit at dusk and extinguished at dawn; at the tomb he is welcomed by St Magnus and Theodorus

Artist or creator

Wolcker, Matthias (active 1731, died 1742)

Date

1733

Location

Bertoldshofen, St. Michael

Associated persons

Berthold Kress (Photographer (digital))

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