St. Athanasius - The Birmingham Oratory knighting The sumptuous fabrics that drape

The sumptuous fabrics that drape the figures

In the right foreground the galleys making off are those of the Turkish left wing

watches the procession carrying an image of Our Lady

he is the primary patron saint of Ireland

Pope Leo XIII made him bishop of Mantua (1884) and in 1893 cardinal and patriarch of Venice

St. Athanasius - The Birmingham Oratory knighting The sumptuous fabrics that drapeAthanasius of Alexandria, died 2 May 373, and was the 20th bishop of Alexandria His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years of which over 17 and encompassed five exiles. Athanasius was a Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.