However, all medieval mentions of Breage regard her as female, complicating an identification with similarly named male saints.

(Aw meaning father in Harari language, and male saints are usually called with this title.)

Pictures of Spanish saints adorned the walls: male saints, stripped to the waist, bearing the marks of torture.

Opposite on the right, kneel the twelve apostles from the New Testament before a group of male saints.

It depicts the Annunciation on the central panel, while the surrounding panels and outside of the wings are covered in various pairs of male saints.

In the Roman Catholic Church, the title is given to male saints and blesseds who were not martyred.

It opens with three panels from a dispersed altarpiece, one depicting the Madonna and Child, the others male saints.

It represents Saint John Chrysostom reading aloud at a desk, a grand Magdalene in front, and two other female and three male saints.

In one version, the gello swallows the child and must be forced by the male saints to regurgitate it alive.

She compares herself to food being devoured by wild animals - an expression never used by male saints: