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The Death of the Witnesses
The Douce Apocalypse, Bodleian Library, (Oxford, Great Britain), Ms. Douce 180, p. 36
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Note how the clothing of the witnesses (described in the Apocalypse as being of sackcloth) closely resembles that of Franciscans.

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