depicting the saint touching his lips with his left hand as a sign of silence and pointing towards the Gospel according to St John with his right hand while an angel symbolizing the Holy Spirit speaks into his ear  

Two spots of retouching: one in the beard of the saint and one in the Gospel book including the fingers of his right hand, flaking of the gold paint on the right side of the halo, the border partly retouched
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