This is so funny! 😂
On March 25, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Saint Mark the Evangelist.
In honor of this feast, we thought we'd revisit a popular tweet that highlighted some of the medieval artwork featuring Saint Mark with a lion.
If you didn’t already know, the four Gospels are traditionally represented by the “four living creatures” in the Old Testament book of Ezekiel.
Matthew is represented by a man, Mark by a lion, Luke by a calf, and John by an eagle.
As a result, when you see paintings of these saints, you’ll often see their corresponding animal in there somewhere, too.
Apparently, medieval European Catholic artists hadn’t seen too many lions, or at least hadn’t figured out how to paint one yet!
"Cassie” on X (who describes herself as “Just a common Catholic girl”) pointed out the hilarious problem in a viral throwback post.
If you’re having a bad day, please appreciate these artists’ attempts to draw lions with St. Mark pic.twitter.com/PVRUId78A2
— Cassie (@comcatholicgrl) April 26, 2018
She wrote:
“If you’re having a bad day, please appreciate these artists’ attempts to draw lions with St. Mark."
Cassie then shared these hilarious examples of Saint Mark with a lion in paintings:
In case you forgot, here’s what lions actually look like:
Here’s some more bad paintings of lions with St. Mark:
What are your thoughts?