Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Elisabeth

Richardis, wife of Charles III (aka "Charles the Fat") and so "Holy Roman Empress", founded the abbey in Andlau ca 880. Later she lived here (as the abbess). She was known for her piety and so she was canonised, when Pope Leo IX paid a visit to the abbey in 1049. Here is one of the ten "medaillons" of the on the former main entrance of Saints-Pierre-et-Paul. A woman and a man standing under an arch. "Huc Elisabe" is written on the arch. So, the woman can only be Eliabeth, wife of Zechariah and mother of John the Baptist. He seems leaving (see his feet), but turns back, while she is saying goodbye to her son, who had decided to live in the desert near the Jordan River.