St. Martin of Tours

16th century
Poreč Cathedral, Croatia

The sword has been lost from this statuette, but one can see from the position of the hand that Martin is cutting his cloak in half to share with a half-dressed beggar, who is already starting to wrap the cloak around himself. Martin is in the armor he will be renouncing in the next episode in the story.

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