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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Saints / Cycles / Prints / (circa), Annus Dierus Sanctorum (Joseph Sebastian and Johann Baptist Klauber after Gottfried Bernhard Göz) / January
Saints / Saints A - Z / Macarius of Alexandria / Life / Exposes himself naked to the bites of mosquitoes
Saints / Saints A - Z / Macarius of Alexandria / Life / Walks to and fro carrying a heavy burden to kill temptations
Saints / Saints A - Z / Macarius of Alexandria / Life / Healing the blind cub of a hyaena

Further details

The inscription in the centre alludes to the healing of the blind - hence, the healing of the blind cub of a hyaena reported in the lives of this saint is here apparently misunderstood as the healing of a blind lion

Artist or creator

Klauber, Joseph Sebastian (c1700-1768) after
Göz, Gottfried Bernhard (1708-1774)

Date

1750 (circa)

Location

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Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Annus Dierum Sanctorum. Augsburg. 1750 (circa).
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