A search for "Descent to Limbo" finds 7 pictures in www.wga.hu, and "Descent to Hell" additional 1, some fairly orthodox, others fully westernized, but all impeccably, and eclectically, Catholic. This, for example, shows Adam receiving a firm handshake while a crew of demons hides behind a rock.
Descent of Christ to Limbo
Andrea da Firenze
1365-68 Fresco Cappella Spagnuolo, Santa Maria Novella, Florence
7,348 posted on 05/30/2006 2:18:32 PM PDT by annalex
A search for "Descent to Limbo" finds 7 pictures in www.wga.hu, and "Descent to Hell" additional 1, some fairly orthodox, others fully westernized, but all impeccably, and eclectically, Catholic.
Of course. Protestants go directly to heaven. Only Catholics have to be rescued out of Limbo and Hell. ;O)
7,349 posted on 05/30/2006 2:45:11 PM PDT by HarleyD
("Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" Luke 24:45)
