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The only difference is that the shafts at the sides are both twisted, that the pentagon at the top is a good deal larger and has in it the royal arms, and that at the sides are shields, one on the right with the arms of Lisbon the ship guided by ravens in which St. Vincent's body floated from the east of Spain to the cape called after him and one on the left with a pelican vulning her breast.
Inside the vaulting of the apsidal chapels was first finished; all the vaults are elaborate, have well-moulded ribs, and bosses, some carved with crosses of the Order of Christ, some with armillary spheres, others with a cross and the words 'In hoc signo vinces, or with a sphere and the words 'Espera in Domino. Where Dom João II. was to be buried is a pelican vulning herself for that was his device and in that intended for his father Dom Affonso V. a 'rodisio' or mill-wheel.
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