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The image, which measures 7 by 5 feet, references a blood libel that led to the execution of several Jews in 1475 as well as numerous anti-Semitic murders. It grew around the disappearance and death of a Christian boy in Trento named Somonino. He was later made a saint and the day of his death, March 24, was included in the Roman martyrology until its removal in 1965.