La théophanie absidale de Gallia no,Les archanges-avocats transmettant les prières du Pater et l’Église céleste célébrant le sacrifice eucharistique

In the paintings of Galliano, San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura and six Pyrenean churches, the archangels Michael and Gabriel display scrolls on which the words peticio and postulacio or variations of these two terms are written. The recurring use of this vocabulary in comments on the liturgy suggests that these petitions represent the seven demands of the Pater Noster, meaning that the advocate-archangels participate in the heavenly liturgy in the same way as the seraphim and the cherubim who, in Rome as in the Pyrenees, sing the Sanctus. In Galliano, this liturgical dimension can be seen to cover an essential part of the semantic content of the absidal theophany.