Velificatio Velificatio Velificatio is a stylistic device used in ancient Roman art to frame a deity by means of a billowing garment. It represents "vigorous movement," an epiphany, or "the vault of heaven," often appearing with celestial, weather, or sea deities. It is characteristic of the iconography of the Aurae, the Breezes personified, and one of the elements which distinguish representations of Luna, the Roman goddess of the Moon, alluding to her astral course. A figure so framed is a velificans (plural velificantes). Not all deities are portrayed as "velificantes", but the device might be used to mark a member of
Luis Alberto Luna Tobar Luis Alberto Luna Tobar Luis Alberto Luna Tobar, (December 15, 1923 – February 7, 2017) was an Ecuadorian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Luna Tobar was born in Quito, Ecuador, and was ordained a priest on June 23, 1946, from the Roman Catholic religious order of the Order of Discalced Carmelites. Luna Tobar was appointed auxiliary archbishop of Archdiocese of Quito as well as titular bishop of Mulli on August 17, 1977, and was ordained bishop on September 18, 1977, by Cardinal Pablo Muñoz Vega. Luna Tobar was appointed archbishop of Vicar Apostolic of Cuenca on May 7, 1981,