Saint Mercurius killing Julian the Apostate, AD363. From a Greek painting of the 16th century. Vision de saint Basile le Grand. Le martyr de Cesaree, saint Mercure, envoye du ciel par le Christ. Woodcut from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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