ELIAKIM JOSEPH-SOPHIA : Salmon Spandrel Seamstress who was she?

Wednesday 11 August 2010

Salmon Spandrel Seamstress who was she?

Following on from our posts on the Michelangelo frescos this month. I was wondering who the seamstress was in the fresco known as the Salmon Spandrel. Early this morning, a family member contacted me for some heritage details. The file was opened for him provided by an aunt in 2008, it states that Catherine Arbede was a seamstress.

Catherine Arbede was the Jewish mother of our grandfather Joseph. She was born in Amsterdam, Holland, her father was a cigar maker and had a kiosk in Shaftesbury Avenue, London. In this fresco it looks like her Father is behind her. She was rejected by the family because she married outside of the Jewish religion. Was Michelangelo giving humanity another message with his positioning of the man behind her, and the female child leaning on her knee while she is cutting the cloth? There was a saying in our family, "Cut your cloth according to your means."

This woman was prepared to do it all for love and followed her heart, even though it meant that she would be poor. She put love above money and lost her friends, parents and Jewish family in the process. Her great grandaughter did the same, she always put love above money. She lives in the heart of conscience and not by the rules of man. Its in the blood, its in the DNA that love is more important than money, we are on a mission for God.

It is clear that some are more attached to their financial wealth, religion, and belief systems, then the love of children and the future of humanity.

Catherine made the right choice for the right reasons, her only motivation was love. Catherine knew that money cannot buy love and that love is not for sale, she was incorruptible. May God bless her soul.

Is it a coincidence that she is wearing the same colour green on her torso as the woman in the 'Truline of Jesse" fresco? Is Michelangelo connecting these two women together with this colour? Why is it called the Salmon Spandrel? Was Michelangelo telling us that she accepted the Christ into her life when she married her husband Thomas? No surprise that the twins are in this fresco as well, because Thomas means twins. Once again Michaelangelo put her in the plaster arch with shells and acorns, the symbols of healing.

The fish Salmon is usually associated with Scotland. Was Michelangelo giving you another clue about the female child's Scottish heritage as well in this fresco? In Celtic symbology the salmon is symbolic of wisdom and the foreknowledge of the gods. [1] As such, once again, Michelangelo was painting the future in this fresco not the past.

Salmon also swim in streams and the holy streams is related to the Essene Book of Peace, Teachings of the Elect, where Christ speaks about the one that would come to stop the world from being destroyed. The Irish Celtics also honored the salmon as the most ancient and sacred animal and Catherine's husband Thomas, was Irish. [2]

The colour salmon is pink, the colour of love, the colour that we were asked to wear for the first mission to Northern Israel in 2006. They swim from salt to fresh water and the North is the direction of the healer. As we know salmon is good and healthy for you and I do like to eat salmon. You may remember that there was a "Happy Fish" crop circle in July. [3] In Aramaic fish is also nun. It is also a Hebrew letter, nun means "kingdom," and in particular, the "heir to the throne. [4]Its gematria value is 50 and the 50 gates of understanding. This means that the truth about these fresco's would not be revealed until the 50's. Not only was I born in 1954 but I am in my 50's now when this information is being revealed to humanity.

You could call it the unveiling of the child and her heritage. There she is in complete transparency signified by the nude child being shared with the world. Once again the woman and child. In the Michelangelo fresco of Prophet Ezekiel he is also looking to his right at the female child, in that fresco she is older in years. Did Catherine Arbede know the child would come from the Galilee of the Gentiles as was predicted? If I look at the joy in her face, that Michelangelo painted, I feel that she did know, she knew that what she was doing had a divine purpose for the women and children of the world.