St. Andrew the Apostle (JMAS 02) Poster

Image Credit (JMAS 02): Antique image of St. Andrew the Apostle from a late 19th-century devotional print in chromolithography with gilt accents originally published by Josef Müller, Art Publisher, Munich, Germany, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. The image is one of twelve in the publisher’s Apostle Series (No. 12155). + Here, St. Andrew supports the beams of a transverse, saltire, or x-shaped cross, the instrument of his martyrdom and most frequently represented attribute. + Feast: November 30 + The lush floral ornamentation derives from miniatures, that is, the small illustrations used to decorate ancient or mediaeval illuminated manuscripts, in the Vatican Library.