Existing comment:
The votive ship model which hangs from the arch of the nave is similar in type (Flemish Carrack) to those hung in churches of Europe from Scandanavia to the Bosporus during the fifteenth and succeeding centuries. Votice ship models are made and presented with a vow or prayer. They are evidences of man's faith in a supreme being who respects the vows and hears the prayers of those "in peril on the sea." |