St. Francis Xavier - The Miracle of the Crab, Lusíada, terracotta sculpture with traces of polychrome, Indo-Portuguese, 17th/18th C., faults and defects, faults on polychrome, According to the hagiographic legend, in the spring of 1546 a crab would have returned to St. Francis Xavier his crucifix dropped into the sea near New Guinea. This recurring iconographic motif came into the Xaverian iconography and hagiography, being the case of a European episode later passed on to the Buddhist hagiography. Dimensões (altura x comprimento x largura) - 40 cm