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Noun Concept
Categories: Cephalophores, Christian iconography, Types of saints
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cephalophore  cephalophores  cephalophory
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A cephalophore is a saint who is generally depicted carrying their own severed head. Wikipedia
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A cephalophore is a saint who is generally depicted carrying their own severed head. Wikipedia
any saint who is generally depicted carrying their own head Wikidata
Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands. Wiktionary
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Similarly, it is clear that the whole company of martyrs, of whom legend relates that they carried their heads after death, the céphalophores , arose from a widely known form of iconography. Wiktionary
Gordon Hall Gerould, Saints' Legends (1916), p. 51. Wiktionary
Likely referencing an article by Marcel Hébert, "Les martyrs céphalophores Euchaire, in Elophe et Libaire", in Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles, v. 19 (1914). Wiktionary
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