About this work
The bishop showing himself healed to the patriarch
Original catalogue wording
4. The bishop showing himself healed to the patriarch | 2. The bishop praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child | 3. The bishop showing himself healed to his student | 1. The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosy | 5. The healed bishop distributing the Eucharist
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 014. The bishop showing himself healed to the patriarchPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
Abba Zacharias, the patriarch, who rebuked Mercurius and stopped him from performing the Eucharist on account of his leprosy
- 022. The bishop praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How Mercurius prayed before the icon of our Lady Mary and was healed from his leprosy
- 033. The bishop showing himself healed to his studentPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
- 041. The leprous bishop standing before the sitting patriarch and showing him his leprosyPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-center
How Mercurius showed the leprosy of his flesh to the patriarch
- 055. The healed bishop distributing the EucharistPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How Mercurius distributed the Eucharist after he was healed from his leprosy
- Source date
- 1721-1730
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
- Holding institution
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark
- 7606
- Folio
- 130v
- Recorded provenance
- not given on vHMML
- Place evidence
- Provenance wording supplied by the source catalogue.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1764 (5 episode rows)