Saint Francis Xavier

Adriaen Lommelin

Inscriptions and textual elements: A world was too small for this ALEXANDER, / he cries, O LORD! NO MORE, nor does he wish for another / He runs to SINA, to the last corners of the world / He makes his own slave to look for one there: / God has seen this, and has come to haul him away / To give, after his wish, a rack without horses. Inscriptions and textual elements: Diepenbeke deliveavit. Inscriptions and textual elements: Lommelin Sculpsit. Inscriptions and textual elements: DEN H. FRANCISCVS XAVERIVS / Apostel van Indien en Iaponien. illustration from: HAZART Cornelius : Kerckelycke historie van de gheele werelt namentlyck vande voorgaende en teghenwoordighe eeuwe ... The third part containing the histories of the Netherlands and England; Antwerp : Michiel Cnobbaert, 1669.