Kevin's Walk: what biblical moment is this (not a quiz: I honestly don't know)?

Sunday, June 22, 2008

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Anonymous said...: St. George and the Cherry Tree?; June 22, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Horace Jeffery Hodges said...: Looks like the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit from Revelation 22:2.

Jeffery Hodges

* * *; June 23, 2008 at 5:21 AM
Horace Jeffery Hodges said...: Except that I miscounted and failed to note the woodsman chopping the tree down.

Odd image...

Jeffery Hodges; June 23, 2008 at 5:22 AM
Anonymous said...: Actually, this is St. Martin of Tours, cutting down a sacred tree worshiped by the Druids.

No, I didn't know this before. I had a hunch that it might be someone engaged in an act of antipagan destruction; and a Google search on "St. Martin" confirmed my suspicion.

Not a particularly auspicious image for a Walk devoted to religious tolerance.; June 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Kevin Kim said...: So! Not a biblical image at all, then. Thanks, Alan.

Kevin; June 23, 2008 at 8:01 PM
CyberMonk said...: Actually, St. Boniface chopping down the tree (oak?) worshipped by Druids.; June 23, 2008 at 11:36 PM
Anonymous said...: Brother Luke is correct. The tree Martin of Tours cut down was a pine tree, and the one depicted here is clearly an oak. The tree Boniface cut down was known as Thor's Oak.

(Thus the Wikipedia doth make experts of us all.); June 24, 2008 at 9:41 PM

Sunday, June 22, 2008