Sacred Art & Iconography
St Jude (Victoria and Albert Museum, A.158-1922)
Alabaster panel, England, 1440 to 1460, part of a Zamora apostle set, Victoria and Albert Museum A.158-1922
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A carved, painted and gilt alabaster panel, England, 1440 to 1460, part of a twelve panel apostle set said to have come from Zamora, Spain, showing a haloed, forked bearded saint holding an oar and a scroll reading "Carnis resurrectionem," titled by the museum St Jude. Held today by the Victoria and Albert Museum under museum number A.158-1922, given by Art Fund.
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Depicted SubjectHis scroll reads "Carnis resurrectionem," the resurrection of the body, the tenth article in the medieval scheme that paired each of the twelve apostles with one clause of the Apostles' Creed, a legend traced to medieval sermon literature rather than to scripture itself and used across English devotional art of the period as a teaching device. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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The museum's own title reads St Jude directly, matching Jude Thaddaeus and distinct from Judas Iscariot. The oar this panel carries is not the club the corroborating Wikipedia record names as his most common attribute, but the panel sits in the same twelve panel Zamora series directly beside the companion St Simon panel, matching the shared 28 October feast day pairing the same record independently confirms.
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