It is the depiction of the universe that has been perverted by original sin and has come under the domination of Satan, the prince of this world. The sea, with its waves and its immense swell, is the place where the Egyptians perish, along with the pigs that were possessed by the devil. We know that in the Arthurian legend, Lot was the husband of Arthur’s sister, Morgause, and the father of Sir Gawain, Gareth, and Mordred.
He then became bishop in the kingdom of Lot, in the southwest of present-day Scotland.
It was said about him, as about the holiest missionaries, that he fulfilled the Lord’s prophecy: You will also do the works that I do, and greater works than these you will do! (Jn 14:12). There is a veritable golden legend about Saint Cuthbert’s mission among the Picts.
After resisting the Romans, the Picts maintained until the tenth century a powerful kingdom occupying a large part of present-day Scotland-a kingdom where Christianity had not yet succeeded in taking root until Saint Cuthbert († 687) evangelized it. This English miniature from the twelfth century depicts the return of Saint Cuthbert, and of two of his brother monks, from the land of the Picts where they were on mission.
