Camino Photo of the Day: a More Human-Sized Door

Sometimes it’s difficult to get a sense of scale from a photo of a door, such as León cathedral’s central door that I posted yesterday. So here’s another one of the doors. This one has a human-sized door cut into the main door. So now you can better tell how big this really is.

The images over this door include Virgin and Child, with the lower register featuring the deathbed of the Virgin, surrounded by angels and saints, moments before her Assumption.

Note the empty niches flanking the door, where statues of saints once stood. Many such statues were destroyed during the anti-Catholic convulsions of the early 19th century, and again during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. I don’t know if this was the case with these or not. Maybe they’re just out for cleaning!

Date: 19 April 2016
Place: León (Castilla y León, Spain)