Halleluia and hassocks

We had a wonderful afternoon today , joining the baroque  choir of which we were members for nearly 30 and nearly 40 years, respectively, to take part in a "sing-in" Handel's Messiah. Great fun, very nostalgic and great exercise for our voices which rallied after a somewhat "out of trim" start. Whilst at St Peter's Cathedral in Hamilton today, I photographed a large altar hassock and two seat cushions in the nave that I stitched just  a few years ago .
The hassock represents the Waikato River as it passes Taupiri Mountain and marae and ultimately reaches the sea at Waikato heads. The creatures are Hector's Dolphin, a fur seal, a pair of dotterels and in the water the Maori representation of the hammerhead shark.
Extras show the seat cushions...the one with blue background representing St Margaret of Antioch and the winged beast representing St Luke.
Wikipedia says...
According to the version of the story in Golden Legend, she was a native of "Antioch" and the daughter of a pagan priest named Aedesius. Her mother having died soon after her birth, Margaret was nursed by a Christian woman five or six leagues from Antioch. Having embraced Christianity and consecrated her virginity to God, Margaret was disowned by her father, adopted by her nurse, and lived in the country keeping sheep with her foster mother (in what is now Turkey).[4] Olybrius, Governor of the Roman Diocese of the East, asked to marry her, but with the demand that she renounce Christianity. Upon her refusal, she was cruelly tortured, during which various miraculous incidents occurred. One of these involved being swallowed by Satan in the shape of a dragon, from which she escaped alive when the cross she carried irritated the dragon's innards. The Golden Legend describes this last incident as "apocryphal and not to be taken seriously" (trans. Ryan, 1.369). She was put to death in AD 304.
As Saint Marina, she is associated with the sea, which "may in turn point to an older goddess tradition," reflecting the pagan divinity, Aphrodite.[5]