Working for no money as a doctor, Katia becomes a Christ-like figure, curing Karl with a touch of her hand of the leprous pustules that have mysteriously afflicted him since he found out about Hitler's plans for the Jews.
Jara, on the other hand, is an uneducated "son of man" who becomes a Christ-like leader for Paraguayan people through action and strength of character.
For a few terrible minutes, it looks as if Bat Boy were going to be born again — maybe even become a Christ figure.
By the time the scene ends, Valjean hasn't just been handed his release papers after 19 years as a prisoner, he has also become a Christ figure, hoisting a preposterously large wooden pole on to his shoulder.
He could well become a Christ-like martyr figure, warns Mr Chatwin.
Or that, after his execution in 1967 by the US-backed Bolivian army, and with the help of another photograph – Alberto Korda's bearded rebel, long hair tucked into a beret with a red star – Ernesto Chee" Guevara will become a Christ-like myth of the left.
Claude becomes a classic Christ figure at various points in the script.
Barbara, crucified by her father's cold demonstration of the power of money over piety, repeats Christ's dying words: "My God: why hast thou forsaken me?" If Barbara becomes a kind of Christ, she subsequently calls her father "the Prince of Darkness".
Nearby, in "Coyote Inalienable," from 2013, a soldier becomes a kind of Christ, hanging high on a wall, its arms extending outward, as if in a blessing.
And, of course, the historically unique life of Christ becomes a pattern for the Christian life in general [e.g. De Civitate Dei XXII.5].
With this image, Christ becomes a Germanic god, one into whose ears the Spirit of the Almighty whispers".
