The Pelican:
on the Revere bowl
Legend tells how the pelican saves its chicks from starvation by ripping open its own breast to feed them with blood...
They missed the fish
Thomas Acquinas writes:
"Pelican of mercy, Jesu, Lord and God, clense me, wretched sinner, in thy precious blood; Blood, whereof one drop for humankind outpoured, might from all transgression have the world restored."
Deacon Wayne Butler told me this story years back when historians were people with a very long memory.
now it's Suzetta Tucker's
ChristStory Bestiary
net page: PELICAN
