Cult of the Holy Spirit
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The Cult of the Holy Spirit, also known as the Cult of the Empire of the Holy Spirit, is a religious sub-culture, inspired by Christian millenarian mystics, associated with Azorean Catholic identity,
A symbol of the faith: the dove of the Holy Spirit, as seen on one of the standards carried in ritual processions
The dove: iconographic symbol of the Holy Spirit
An altar in honor of the Holy Spirit with Crown, an example from the island of São Jorge
Crown, scepter and orb of the Holy Spirit
Joachim of Fiore
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Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora, was an Italian Christian theologian, Catholic abbot, and the founder of the monastic order of San Giovanni in Fiore. According to theologian Bernard M
Cult of the Holy Spirit
…including the Spiritans, but what is considered here has peculiar characteristics of its own. Worship of the Holy Spirit was inspired by the figure of Joachim of Fiore (†1202), a medieval monk who was considered as a millenarian prophet who, on the basis on his interpretation of the Book of Revelation, postulated that…
Joachim of Flora, in a 15th-century woodcut
A 1573 fresco depicting Gioacchino da Fiore, in the Cathedral of Santa Severina, Calabria, Italy
"Joachim in his study”, woodcut from a 1516 edition.
Page of Liber Figurarum, 12th century - showing a Seven-Headed Dragon at right