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Lazarus, Saint ( - 30 CE)

Man raised from the dead by Jesus. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09096a.htm Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_of_Bethany Relationships: Jesus Christ (c. 5 BC-c. 30 AD) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Lazarus
References in Documents:
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) 938 Christus Lazarum evocans e Sepulchro, eisdem opere et forma. Et sic omnia sequentia. Pl. Christ calling forth Lazarus from the tomb; the same technique and form, as are all the following.
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

In the Musæum Tradescant are mentioned Pieces of Stone from Apollo's Oracle, Diana's Tomb, &c. which may keep me in Countenance for reciting what follows. A Stone from Jacob's Well, Another from the River Euphrates. A Bit of that called Jonah's Rock, of which Mr. Gordon well observes (Georg. Gram. p. 269.) that, though it be doubtful whether the ruinous old Monument, known by that Name, was erected upon that Occasion; yet it is highly probable, that this individual Part of Scanderoon Bay, was the very Place of the Whales Delivery, it being the nearest to Nineveh of any in the Levant. This was brought from thence, and given me by James Winter of Berwick, Surgeon to a Man of War for Turkey. Also a Bit of Stone that himself broke off Lazarus's Tomb. A small Fragment of the Pillar of Salt that is shewed to Travellers, as that into which Lot's Wife was converted from amongst the Collections of Mrs. Sarah Speering. To these may be added a Stone from St. Winifred's Well, with the indelible Spots of her Blood, but should have been placed (if not mislaid) as St. Hilda's Snakes amongst the natural Stones.