St. Edmund the Martyr
15th century
St. Edmund's Church, Southwold, England
Ælfric's "Life of St. Edmund" says the king was tied to a tree and then killed with a large number of javelins. Painters and muralists pictured arrows instead, but neither arrows nor javelins would be a good choice for a stone statue set in a niche. This may be why the sculptor chose to portray the moment before the javelins started to fly.
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Source: Alan Walker via this page at Wikimedia Commons.