06 works, Today, October 14th, is Nazarius and Celsus’day, their story illustrated #285

Henry Zaidan
1 min readOct 14, 2020

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Giovanni Antonio Merli
Saint Nazarius on a horse, c. 1480

Depicted as a man and boy walking on the sea
Fresco
St. Nazarius and Celsus Abbey

Nazarius was a citizen of Rome whose father was Jewish or pagan. His mother was Saint Perpetua. Nazarius was a student of Saint Peter and was baptized by Saint Linus…

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Henry Zaidan
Henry Zaidan

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In my Blog is an Online collection of significant paintings from the 1st century to today; complete with art-history and artist bibliographies.

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