CROSSES THE SEA
ST. CHRISTOPHER PAINTING. A granddaughter of George Allen. Ruskin’s friend and publisher, has just sent over the sea to New South Wales two paintings for the children s altar in the cathedral at Newcastle there. These two panels by Miss Daphne Allen show St. Christopher kneeling with an angel standing behind him, and again crossing the ford with the Child on his shoulder. They will be a delight to Australian boys and girls in Newcastle Cathedral as similar paintings in the village churches throughout Britain delighted their ancestors in medieval England. For the lovely story of St. Christopher bearing the Child .across the river was the favourite subject of artists in the 300 years before the Reformation. During the day good fortune came to all? it was said, who saw St. Christopher in the morning.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1934, Page 22 (Supplement)
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