Historical theatrics for the Post-Easter miracles

Monumental painting, an art of illusion, often transports us especially in our sacred spaces. But what if the miracles are instead dramatized throughout that space (especially its “heaven”)? Check out this chronicle of pre-Reformation English in-church theatrics for Ascension Day and Pentecost/Whitsunday just found in The Churchman  (July 5, 1879, p. 18) that wittily highlights the challenges and unintended reading of the illusions.

The author, no fan, wonderfully conjures the effort  ... 

— Suzanne Glover Lindsay, St. Stephen’s historian and curator