Augustine
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Water heals and purifies. It also kills and destroys.
Few symbols encompass both the life-giving and death-dealing properties of water as the sacrament of baptism, which represents both the passing of the old self and their rebirth as a new creature (2Cor5:17)
Here, the image of death & rebirth is reinforced by a dragonfly, which spends the first years of its life in the deep as a nymph, before being completely transformed as it rises to the surface.
Unlike the butterfly, a dragonfly undergoes several molting processes after its emergence, showing that, while the creature is already made new, it is not yet perfected, and must grow in its new identity through what is called progressive sanctification.
Title refers to the subject of this work: i.e. the Christian daimyo, Konishi Yukinaga, whose baptismal name is Augustine.
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