• This symbol or allegory of the Pelican, applied to Christ, was popular during the Middle Ages, and was seen not only in the songs of poets, but in sculpture on the portals of churches. Thibaut, Roi de Navarre, Chanson LXV , says:⁠— “Diex est ensi comme li Pelicans, Qui fait son nit el plus haut arbre sus, Et li mauvais oseau, qui vient de jus Ses oisellons ocist, tant est puans; Li père vient destrois et angosseux, Dou bec s’ocist, de son sane dolereus Vivre refait tantost ses oisellons; Diex fist autel, quant vint sa passions, De son douc sane racheta ses enfans Dou Deauble, qui tant parest poissans.” ↩
• John 19:27:⁠— “Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.” ↩