Saint Barbara, baths, towers, and canons

[arca_libraria]

Replying to myself as my first post is already very long.

The "is there a Saint Barbara connection?"  was one of the things I had wondered about before I joined this forum or learned that there had been a great deal of debate about whether there was or wasn't any Christian iconography or symbolism in the VMS. Koen's ideas about the arma christi gave me more confidence about my own idea that there could be some sort of relationship between the Barbara mythology and some aspects of the VMS decoration. I also think that if there are some deliberately Christian themes and ideas in the VMS, then my Barbara idea could sit alongside the arma christi ideas and doesn't need to replace it – I think there could be space for both and some other popular religious themes in VMS exegesis.