OK, I went back and added links to the art for John and Andrew in the prior two blogs. Sorry I didn’t do it earlier. I don’t have a good excuse.
4 o’clock. Tau cross and basket. Philip. The basket refers to the feeding of the 5,000 in John 6. Details on Philip’s death are not abundant. The T shaped cross refers to one tradition that Philip was also crucified on a cross of this shape.
The painting entitled The Crucifixion of St. Philip the Apostle by the Flemish painter Jan van de Venne depicts the scene.
A 500 year old print by the German printmakers Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff depicts another tradition that Philip was both stoned and crucified on a T shaped cross. It is titled: The Crucifixion and stoning of Saint Philip.
In part 9, we move to Thomas at the 5 o’clock position.