Como - San Fedele

San Fedele, the ancient Cathedral of Como, has paleochristian origins. The present church dates from 1120.

San Fedele´s unusual floor plan cannot be seen. There is a wide nave, two aisles and three apses in clover-leaf shape, a "triconchos", similar to "St. Maria im Kapitol" (Cologne), the "Chapel of the Cross" (Muestair) and "Germigny-des-Prés".

This is the left side of the ancient portal (prev. upload).

It is claimed, that the relief depicts Habakkuk with a basket of food transported by an angel from Judaea to Babylon. He is on his way to Daniel, who is seen below on the throne in the lions den.


Apocrypha 14

"Now the prophet Habakkuk was in Judea. He had boiled pottage and had broken bread into a bowl, and was going into the field to take it to the reapers. But the angel of the Lord said to Habakkuk, "Take the dinner which you have to Babylon, to Daniel, in the lions' den." Habakkuk said, "Sir, I have never seen Babylon, and I know nothing about the den." Then the angel of the Lord took him by the crown of his head, and lifted him by his hair and set him down in Babylon, right over the den, with the rushing sound of the wind itself."