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The Apostles Going Forth To Preach
The Apostles
Going Forth To Preach
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
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January 22 - 3rd Sunday Ordinary Time
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January 15 - 2nd Sunday Ordinary Time
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January 8, 2012 Epiphany
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January 1, 2012 Solemnity of Mary
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December 25 - Christmas
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December 18 - 4th Sunday of Advent
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December 11 - 3rd Sunday of Advent
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December 4 - 2nd Sunday of Advent
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November 27 - 1st Sunday of Advent
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November 20 - Christ the King
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November 13 - 33rd Sunday Ordinary Time
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November 6 - 32nd Sunday Ordinary Time
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October 30 - 31st Sunday Ordinary Time
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October 23 - 30th Sunday Ordinary Time
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October 16 - 29th Sunday Ordinary Time
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October 9 - 28th Sunday Ordinary Time
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October 2 - 27th Sunday Ordinary Time
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September 25 - 26th Sunday Ordinary Time
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September 18 - 25th Sunday Ordinary Time
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September 11 - 24th Sunday Ordinary Time
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September 4 - 23rd Sunday Ordinary Time
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August 28 - 22nd Sunday Ordinary Time
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August 21 - 21st Sunday Ordinary Time
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August 14 - 20th Sunday Ordinary Time
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August 7 - 19th Sunday Ordinary Time
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July 31 - 18th Sunday Ordinary Time
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July 24 - 17th Sunday Ordinary Time
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July 17 - 16th Sunday Ordinary Time
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July 10 - 15th Sunday Ordinary Time
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July 3 - 14th Sunday Ordinary Time
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June 26 - Corpus Christi
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June 19 - Trinity Sunday
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June 11 - Pentecost
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June 5 - Ascension
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May 29 - 6th Sunday of Easter
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May 22 - 5th Sunday of Easter
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May 15 - 4th Sunday of Easter
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May 8 - 3rd Sunday of Easter
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April 24 - Easter
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April 17 - Palm Sunday
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April 10 - 5th Sunday of Lent
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April 3 - 4th Sunday of Lent
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March 27 - 3rd Sunday of Lent
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March 20 - 2nd Sunday of Lent
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March 13 - 1st Sunday of Lent
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March 6 - 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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February 27 - 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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February 13 - 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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February 6 - 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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January 30 - 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time
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January 23 - 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
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January 16 - 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
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January 9 - Baptism of the Lord
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About The Image Above...

Since Jean Colombe had already represented Pentecost in the Très Riches Heures (folio 79r), he illustrated Tuesday, the day of the Holy Ghost, with a picture of the apostles, inspired by the Holy Ghost, going forth to preach the Gospel.

The subject is not new; earlier artists had shown the apostles shod and setting out for their journeys to different parts of the world. The innovation here is their leave-taking of the Virgin Mary, who traditionally accompanied them spiritually.

This scene probably reflects the influence of the staging of contemporaneous religious theater, such as the Conversion of St. Paul in which the apostles take advantage of their farewell to Mary to ask her for advice:

Mais allons ainçois, je vous prie,
Savoir de la Vierge Marie,
S'ell nouse voudra rien commander.

Approaching Mary here are a curly-bearded Peter and Matthew. The heavy physiognomy of the first is typical of many of Jean Colombe's figures, while the expression of the second is softened by a flowing white heard and a thinner face. Touched by their behavior, the Virgin greets them with a gesture of both hands; behind her stand the rapt Holy Women, also mentioned in Acts.

The other apostles have already started out, not in the traditional groups of three but in pairs, so that we actually see only eight apostles, not twelve. John is recognizable because he is beardless, but the others do not have any distinctive characteristics.

Three groups leave in the different directions marked by the fork in the road. Traditionally, some, like John and Philip, went to Asia Minor and Galatia; others, as in the case of Jude and Simon, went to Mesopotamia and Egypt; while still others, like Andrew and James the Greater, went to Greece or distant Spain.

Here, their routes are scattered with châteaux, lakes, and mountains. The Golden Legend states that the apostles were miraculously reunited at the Virgin's bedside at the time of her death.



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