HERMENEUTIC HYPOTHESES
Note the accumulation of theses and identifications attempted, expressly invoked to sustain the hermeneutics under consideration and, notably, the identification of the haloed figure:
Saint Edward, king of England (patron of King Duarte) – Joaquim de Vasconcelos (1895)
Veneration of St Vincent, patron and inspirer of the conquest of the Maghrebi strongholds, rendered by Portuguese society, which King Afonso V commissioned as a form of gratitude and acknowledgement – José de Figueiredo (1910)
Saint Catherine – Alfredo Leal (1917)
Infanta Catarina (daughter of King Duarte and Queen Isabel) – Marquis of Jácome Correia (1926) / Henrique Loureiro (1927)
Symbolic funeral of King Fernando, the Saintly Prince – José Saraiva (1925) / José de Bragança (1926)
James the Less (solemnising the institution of the Order of the Tower and Sword) – Marquis of Jácome Correia (1926)
Queen (Fairy) Isabel (wife of Afonso V, with Nebuchadnezzar and Jacob's Ladder) - Armando Lassancy or Armando de Sousa Gomes (1927)
Saint John the Evangelist – Luiz da Fonseca (1927)
Evocation of Queen Isabel of Lancaster (wife of Afonso, son of King Duarte) – A. Sousa Gomes (1932)
Mass of the Catechumens and of the Public Penitents – Francisco Manuel Alves, Abbot of Baçal (1933)
Marriage of Leonor (daughter of King Duarte, to the Emperor of Germany, Frederick III) – Caetano de Oliveira (1935)
Cardinal Jaime (son of Prince Pedro) – Belard da Fonseca (1957)
Investiture of the nation in the Mission of the Holy Spirit – Jaime Cortesão (1965)
Saint Thomas of Canterbury – Rafael Monteiro (1973)
Herald of the Age of the Holy Spirit – José Luís Conceição Silva (1981)
Melchizedek, King (Temporal Power) and Priest (Spiritual Authority) – Manuel J. Gandra (1981)
Two Biblical Anointed Ones (Oracle of the Lord concerning Zerubbabel = Zechariah, IV, 6 and Allegory of the Rod = Revelation, XXII, 8-10) – Paulo Manuel Santos (1986)
Carlos of Catalonia (Prince of Viana and king of Navarre) – António Osório de Castro (1988)
515 (Il Messo di Dio) – Lima de Freitas (1993)
Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian (the first patron saints of Lisbon) - Teresa Schedel de Castello Branco (1994)
Solemn suffrage in memory of Prince Fernando – Jorge Filipe de Almeida and Maria Manuela Barroso de Albuquerque (2000)
Collective thanksgiving of the Nation to St Vincent for the successes in the North African military campaigns of King Afonso V and a plea that the same graces might continue to be granted in the future – Fernando António Baptista Pereira and Pedro Flor (2010).
Rehabilitation of the memory of Prince Pedro (Saint John the Evangelist) – Clemente Baeta (2012)