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Christian Pelican Symbol Shirt

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Basic Dark T-Shirt
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Black
Vivid Printing: White Underbase

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Style: Basic Dark T-Shirt

Comfortable, casual and loose fitting, our heavyweight dark colour t-shirt will quickly become one of your favorites. Made from 100% cotton, it's unisex and wears well on anyone and everyone. We’ve double-needle stitched the bottom and sleeve hems for extra durability. Select a design from our marketplace or customise it to make it uniquely yours!

Size & Fit

  • Model is 188 cm and is wearing a medium
  • Standard fit
  • Garment is unisex sizing
  • Fits true to size

Fabric & Care

  • 100% cotton (Heathers are a cotton/poly blend)
  • Double-needle hemmed sleeves and bottom
  • Imported
  • Machine wash cold

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Christian Pelican Symbol Shirt

Christian Pelican Symbol Shirt

Tshirt with the Catholic / Christian Pelican symbol. In mediaeval Europe, the pelican was thought to be particularly attentive to her young, to the point of providing her own blood by wounding her own breast when no other food was available. As a result, the pelican came to symbolise the Passion of Jesus and the Eucharist,[105] and usurped the image of the lamb and the flag.[106] A reference to this mythical characteristic is contained for example in the hymn by Saint Thomas Aquinas, "Adoro te devote" or "Humbly We Adore Thee", where in the penultimate verse he describes Christ as the "loving divine pelican, able to provide nourishment from his breast".[107] Elizabeth I of England adopted the symbol, portraying herself as the "mother of the Church of England". Nicholas Hilliard painted the Pelican Portrait in around 1573, now owned by the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.[108] A pelican feeding her young is depicted in an oval panel at the bottom of the title page of the first (1611) edition of the King James Bible.[106] Such "a pelican in her piety" appears in the 1686 reredos by Grinling Gibbons in the church of St Mary Abchurch in the City of London. Earlier mediaeval examples of the motif appear in painted murals, for example that of c. 1350 in the parish church of Belchamp Walter, Essex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican

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Product ID: 235847924395125569
Added on 11/11/14, 6:56 pm
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