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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Saints / Cycles / Prints / (circa), Annus Dierus Sanctorum (Joseph Sebastian and Johann Baptist Klauber after Gottfried Bernhard Göz) / April
Saints / Saints A - Z / Hermengild / Life / Incarcerated by his father for becoming a Catholic, Hermengild refuses to receive communion from an Arianist bishop
Saints / Saints A - Z / Hermengild / Life / After Hermengild refused communion from an Arianist, Hermengild's father has his head cleft with an axe
Saints / Saints A - Z / Hermengild / Posthumous miracles / Heavenly music is heard at the corpse of St Hermengild
Saints / Saints A - Z / Hermengild / Posthumous miracles / Lights surround the corpse of St Hermengild
SOCIAL LIFE
Further details
The execution is only alluded to by the executioner walking away in the background.
Artist or creator
Date
1750 (circa)
Location
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Annus Dierum Sanctorum. Augsburg. 1750 (circa).
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