Miguel Jerónimo Zendejas
The Discovery of the Body of St. John of Nepomuk

1793
Oil on canvas
Puebla Cathedral, Mexico

As in the legend, the martyred saint is seen environed by five bright lights, enabling the local people to retrieve the body.

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Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.