To: Pyro7480
Doesn't look much like Fisher. Here's Holbein's sketch:
![](http://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/SODimages3/132_HansHolbeinYounger.jpg)
Holbein probably took as good a quick likeness as any artist, ever.
3 posted on
06/23/2006 11:46:47 AM PDT by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother
When you compared the two, they don't look much alike. However, the sketch was made while St. John was in better health, and depictions of the saint sometimes portray him as a "cardinal with worn, haggard features," as
Catholic Forum points out.
This is a picture of the larger window that the detail was taken from, along with the two adjourning windows.
![](http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/images/2004/08/06/mart_full_win_300_300x300.jpg)
The cathedral is full of beautiful stained glass.
![](http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/images/2004/08/06/marie_st_mike_full_win_300_300x300.jpg)
St Michael the Archangel, St Thomas of Villanova, St Mary Magdalene and St Elizabeth of Hungary
6 posted on
06/23/2006 11:59:04 AM PDT by
Pyro7480
("If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in... patience, humility, & charity." -St. Philip Neri)
To: AnAmericanMother
Oh, the caption for the first stained-glass picture should be:
Three canonised English martyrs: Thomas More, John Fisher and Philip Howard.
7 posted on
06/23/2006 12:00:34 PM PDT by
Pyro7480
("If you wish to go to extremes, let it be in... patience, humility, & charity." -St. Philip Neri)
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