New information! I clicked on the link provided by Kathor1 to the paper by Domingo L. González Lopo. I found the photo of San Julián on p131, not p25. We must be reading different papers. But the caption to the photo (on p130) gave this piece of...
Here is the link to the paper mentioned earlier: The importance of tradition in the face of Tridentine renewal: devotion to St Julian in Barroque Galicia (in Spanish).
The author is a lecturer at the Santiago University. His doctoral thesis is...
Yes, it was on the English Wiki page that I read that one of San Julián's attributes was a hawk on his finger. It was Pelegrin who suggested that the bird was a hawk because the saint had been hunting when the deer spoke to him. That seemed to...
Hello, Pelegrin! Who do you mean by 'the Apostol'? I would assume that you meant Santiago, but, since this thread is all about San Julián (who wasn't an Apostol), and, to a lesser extent, Santa María Salomé, I cannot be sure. And I don't...
A bit of both, Kathor1. I am not convinced that the bird is a hawk, but I am convinced that the blue (or brown) stick is not in place of a sword.
The general version (I use 'general' in a very loose way, to mean the story that I have read most...
I could not believe that this is the same statue in the same church as my photo. A slightly different angle and slightly underexposed. I had to do several retakes before I was convinced.
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