Jan de Molder
The Mass of St. Gregory

1513-14
Wood polychrome
Musée National de l'Age Médiévale, Paris

This is one part of a triptych in the museum. According to the legend, at communion a woman expressed doubt that the eucharistic host could be Christ's body. St. Gregory set the host aside, and later in its place he found a bleeding finger. In the art the finger became an entire body. In this example, the figure of Christ adapts the Man of Sorrows image type, with the addition of gestures demonstrating his wounds.

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Photographed at the museum by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.