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  2. Sword of Peter - Wikipedia

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    The Sword of Saint Peter (Polish: Miecz świętego Piotra) is a religious relic held in the Poznań Archdiocesan Museum. It is claimed to be the sword with which the Apostle Peter cut off the right ear of the high priest's servant at the time of Jesus' arrest in Gethsemane. The sword is wide-tipped, similar in shape to a dussack or machete.

  3. Staff of Moses - Wikipedia

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    The rod is said to have been created on the sixth day of creation and passed through the hands of the biblical patriarchs before being inherited by Moses. [4] A Midrash similar to the Arthurian legend of the sword in the stone recounts that the staff was planted in the garden of Moses’ father-in-law Jethro , and it was known that whoever ...

  4. Flaming sword (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    According to the Bible, a flaming sword (Hebrew: להט החרב lahat chereb or literally "flame of the whirling sword" Hebrew: להט החרב המתהפכת lahaṭ haḥereb hammithappeket) was entrusted to the cherubim by God to guard the gates of Paradise after Adam and Eve were banished (Genesis 3:24).

  5. Archangel Michael in Christian art - Wikipedia

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    [Michael] is always represented by the ecclesiastical Byzantine painters as a young warrior of surpassing beauty, standing on the body of an old dead man, with wings expanded, and holding a flaming sword in his right, and a pair of scales in his left hand, in order to show that with the first he took his soul, and with the second he weighs the ...

  6. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Wikipedia

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    The second carries a sword and rides a red horse as the creator of (civil) war, conflict, and strife. [4] The third, a food merchant, rides a black horse symbolizing famine and carries the scales. [5] The fourth and final horse is pale, upon it rides Death, accompanied by Hades. [6] "They were given authority over a quarter of the Earth, to ...

  7. Sword with markings of ancient pharaoh Ramses II unearthed in ...

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    The bronze sword with engravings of the cartouche of the Egyptian king was buried for more than 3,000 years in an ancient military fort known as Tell Al-Abqain, located in the Beheira Governorate ...

  8. Holy Lance - Wikipedia

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    Fresco by Fra Angelico, Dominican monastery at San Marco, Florence, showing the lance piercing the side of Jesus on the cross (c. 1440). The Holy Lance, also known as the Spear of Longinus (named after Saint Longinus), the Spear of Destiny, or the Holy Spear, is alleged to be the lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross during his crucifixion.

  9. David (Donatello, bronze) - Wikipedia

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    David is a bronze statue of the biblical hero by the Italian Early Renaissance sculptor Donatello, probably made in the 1440s. Nude except for helmet and boots, it is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance , and the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity.