This carving is close to the altar to the Blessed Virgin. It is an unfamiliar representation to me especially so close to an altar.
Strangely enough there is no deformity in it, just a fallen creature whose action is restricted.
It made me think to the omnipotence of God, Who all can and how He can bend at His service every event that happens in human history.
When I was participating to the Bible meetings at the Dominicans I had an interesting suggestion from one of the Fathers: there is a jewish legend surrounding the way Solomon built the temple according to which the creatures that built the temple were actually demons summoned and controlled by the king through a magic ring.
I had the opportunity to read something about it on Google book search. Angelo S. Rappoport collected such legends, but please be careful when you look for such book because he wrote less reliable documents as well.
So there is no place in the creation, on Earth, in Heaven, inside and outside human heart, whatever it happens, in which God cannot express His beauty.
Difficult to see and even more often difficult to accept.
