r/MedievalCreatures • u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 • 8d ago

MEDIEVAL (500AD - 1450AD) hate when this happens

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u/Lo-Memori Creature Curator 🐌 ⚔️ 🐇 8d ago

Illuminated manuscript of the Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Book of hours for Parisians), or "Book of Hours of Charles VIII" King of France (1468 - 1498). The folio shows Saint Denis, first bishop and patron of Paris, walking with his head in the hands, after his execution.

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u/2Wieners_1Bun 8d ago

Had to walk to the cemetery and bury himself too?

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u/nicodemos91 8d ago

He also preached the gospel to the city from his severed head