| 15 of 26. AMBO - On the front panel of the Ambo are the images of the four evangelists identified with the four "living creatures" of Revlation 4:7. St. Jerome writes "The first face, that of a man, signifies Matthew, who begins to write, as of a man, the book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham; the second, Mark, in which is heard the voice of the Lian roaring in the desert, 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord'; the third, that of the Calf, prefigures Luke the Evangelist, commencing his history from the priest Zechariah; and the fourth, the Evangelist St. John, who having taken the wings of an eagle, and hastening to loftier things, speaks of the Word of God." (Artisan for the Ambo apostles: Mary Ellen O'Brien - Most Holy Redeemer Church)
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