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The Coronation of the Virgin
The cloister is ringed by columns each with a unique capital or "chapiter", and the four corners are adorned with sculptures representing various episodes from the scriptures or Roman Catholic magisterium. In this instance, the decoration relates the coronation of the Virgin Mary - not related in the Bible, nor accepted by Orthodoxy, this is a Roman Catholic tradition - whereby the Virgin Mary is crowned Queen of Heaven. Logically, for medieval Christians, whose civil society was totally dominated by a secular monarch, whose power supposedly derived from Heaven, it was only right and fitting that the mother of Christ should also be honoured with the status of a monarch.
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