Here is a lovely image of Pentecost, from an English manuscript, ca. 1230, which can be seen at the Walters Museum in Baltimore. (If you've never been there, you have great delights in store!)

Pentecost English ca 1230

Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.

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