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According to later Christian traditions, [[Agabus]] was a former suitor of the Virgin Mary who became a hermit and built a chapel dedicated to her on Mount Carmel. Here he wears a Carmelite robe, probably because of seventeenth-century attempts to associate the Order with the prophets of Mount Carmel (via The Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK) | |||
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The Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
According to later Christian traditions, Agabus was a former suitor of the Virgin Mary who became a hermit and built a chapel dedicated to her on Mount Carmel. Here he wears a Carmelite robe, probably because of seventeenth-century attempts to associate the Order with the prophets of Mount Carmel (via The Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK)