St Pantalus under a Renaissance Portico (1519–21), a design for a stained glass window by Hans Holbein the Younger later incorporated into the organ shutters at Basel Cathedral: the legendary first bishop of Basel is depicted holding a palm branch symbolizing his martyrdom[1]
The beginning of the succession of bishops of Basel is shrouded in legend. The first, St. Pantalus, eludes historical documentation. He is supposed to have been martyred at Cologne with Saint Ursula, who is herself difficult to locate historically.[2]
^Christian Müller and Stephan Kemperdick, Maryan Ainsworth; et al., Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basel Years, 1515–1532 (Munich: Prestel, 2006).
^Scott B. Montgomery, St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne: Relics, Reliquaries and the Visual Culture of Group Sanctity in Late Medieval Europe (Peter Lang, 2010) passim.
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