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Twelve Apostles or Twelve Disciples: see apostle apostle (əpŏs`əl) [Gr.,=envoy], one of the prime missionaries of Christianity. ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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| (those duties falling exclusively upon Kate) the good lady had about as much share, either in theory or practice, as any one of the statues of the Twelve Apostles which embellish the exterior of St Paul's Cathedral. Portraits of the twelve apostles in wood, and not a whole nose among 'em. I must see the light of the unsnuffed candle wane on my employment; the shadows darken on the wrought, antique tapestry round me, and grow black under the hangings of the vast old bed, and quiver strangely over the doors of a great cabinet opposite--whose front, divided into twelve panels, bore, in grim design, the heads of the twelve apostles, each enclosed in its separate panel as in a frame; while above them at the top rose an ebon crucifix and a dying Christ. |
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