Today's the feast of Corpus Christi, and unsurprisingly the symbol of Corpus Christi College at Cambridge University is the Pelican in her Piety, plucking her breast to feed her children on her blood. It is even used as a doorstop in the college chapel...
Simon Knott
Today's the feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ, transferred from last Thursday. In medieval church art it was often represented by a mother pelican pecking her breast to feed her chicks on her own blood, as here on a misericord in Hereford Cathedral, c1380.
