image of the Pentecost in Spain, we can infer that the iconography that is present in the

Cycle of the Life and Passion of Christ in the Bible ofAvila is different.

 Yet, as already mentioned in Chapter 2, the iconography of the Pentecost has been

questioned by Maria Rodriguez Velasco who believes that the iconography in the Bible of

Avila could also relate to the Mission to the Apostles because there is no indication of the

Descend of the Holy Spirit, and the Virgin Mary is absent.220 Rodriguez Velasco does not

go into any more detail or explanation of why the folio in the Bible ofAvila would

represent the Mission to the Apostles, but if this identification is accepted, then two

questions remain: why are there twelve figures, if in the Mission to the Apostles only

eleven were present, and why the Master of the Cycle of the Life and Passion of Christ

did not place it before the Ascension, and then make the Ascension of Christ into Heaven

the final scene in the Cycle.

 I would like to suggest that the iconography of the last folio in the Cycle of the

Life and Passion of Christ is the Second Coming of Christ. In Acts of the Apostles (Acts

1: 9-11) two men in white apparel told Christ's disciples that "[...] why stand ye gazing

up into heaven? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come

in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." The "in like manner" would translate

into pictorial terms as Christ coming in an Ascension type of iconography. There are a

number of examples of the Second Coming of Christ in the Commentary to the

Apocalypse by Beatus of Liebana. An example of the Second Coming of Christ comes

from the 10th to 11Ith century Beatus of San Millan de la Cogolla, Rioja (Logrofio) (Fig.



220 Rodriguez Velasco, M., "Iconografia del Nuevo Testamento en la Biblia de Avila,"
1999, p. 364.