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THE PELICAN.
The Pelican is often used as a symbol in Christian churches.
The pelican is one of the symbols or representations of Jesus Christ.
Legend says, the pelican, to prevent its chicks from starving in times of scarcity, wounds its chest with its own beak and feeds them with its own blood.
According to another legend, if the pelican chicks die, the parent opens its side and brings them back to life, at the expense of his own, spraying them with his own blood.
In the light of this ancient tradition, early Christians adopted the motif as a symbol of Christ.
The Pelican symbolises the Redeemer (Christ) who gives his life and rises again to redeem the sins of Man and feeds them with his body and blood in the Eucharist.
