Netizens surprise each other with an image discovered in England – in St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire, England. The bas-relief, located on one of its walls, is made in the form of a man's head in a medical mask, surprisingly similar to those “personal protective equipment”, without which they are now not allowed into public places.
The cathedral was erected in 1115, a room with a mysterious bas-relief was added in 1350. The question is, where is there an obvious allusion to the events that unfolded almost 700 years later? That is, the COVID-19 pandemic. Did the local prophet advise?
There is no mystery in the bas-relief. As well as prophecies or jokes. After all, he does not just look like a head in a medical mask. There is indeed a head in a medical mask on the wall. Only it appeared not in 1350, but recently during the restoration of the cathedral, as reported by the Live Science portal.
The builders deliberately made and attached to the wall a symbolic statue in memory of the “health crisis that erupted in 2020-2021 of our century.” That is, in memory of the pandemic.
The tradition of decorating restored cathedrals with some symbols corresponding to the current era is very common in the Christian world. She, for example, was followed in Spain – they sculpted the figure of an astronaut on the wall of the Spanish Cathedral of St. Jerome in Salamanca (Catedral Nueva), erected in the period from 1513 to 1733. Ignorant bloggers still marvel at her, believing that the astronaut appeared in visions to one of the prophets of that time – maybe even Nostradamus himself. But no. It is known that the figure in the spacesuit was added in 1992. The sculptor chose a space theme, choosing a symbol of the era.
Something suggests: a masked face sculptured in a medieval cathedral will repeat the “fate” of the astronaut. Over time, it will begin to flicker on social networks, accompanied by sincere surprise and mystical assumptions.
