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Reliquary of the True Cross, c. 1214. Creator: Unknown.

Reliquary of the True Cross, c. 1214. A lengthy Latin inscription on the frame recounts the history of the central relic--a fragment of the True Cross--and provides an exact date for its container: "You who ask about the cross: read! The heir of Judas the priest/Stole it. But when, after boarding a ship,/He sought a mild breeze, a fierce storm opposed the sorry sailors./Out of his mind, he gnawed at his own hands./In the end the blessed Virgin spoke thus to him:/?You shall soon be well, if you seek to return what was stolen.?/ He pays back this debt to the brothers of the Temple . . . When he died, they cast him overboard, and the storm subsided./Happy they arrive at Brindisi, quiet they have returned with the cross,/Which resides beautiful in this handsome panel. This tablet was created in the 1214th year from the Lord?s incarnation in the month of February.".
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Reliquary of the True Cross, c. 1214. Creator: Unknown.
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Reliquary of the True Cross, c. 1214. A lengthy Latin inscription on the frame recounts the history of the central relic--a fragment of the True Cross--and provides an exact date for its container: "You who ask about the cross: read! The heir of Judas the priest/Stole it. But when, after boarding a ship,/He sought a mild breeze, a fierce storm opposed the sorry sailors./Out of his mind, he gnawed at his own hands./In the end the blessed Virgin spoke thus to him:/?You shall soon be well, if you seek to return what was stolen.?/ He pays back this debt to the brothers of the Temple . . . When he died, they cast him overboard, and the storm subsided./Happy they arrive at Brindisi, quiet they have returned with the cross,/Which resides beautiful in this handsome panel. This tablet was created in the 1214th year from the Lord?s incarnation in the month of February."
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4328 x 5500 px | 68.1 MB
Print size:
36.6 x 46.6 cm | 14.4 x 18.3 in (300 dpi)
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