Chapter XV: The Sacred Painters and Composers (3)

Birds and St. Francis, 402, 404;
and St. Guthlac, 170.

Bishops, early, 70;
first degraded, 329;
building workhouse, 330;
seeking a site, 331;
of fifth century, 332;
putting down soothsayers, 333;
releasing prisoners, 334;
giving a horse to, 338;
of Hexham, 339;
at head of troops, 343;
jokes of, 346;
pompous, 347;
at early Mass, 351;
aerial music at death of, 362;
inviting old master, 372;
ape of, painter, 475.

Black death, 90, 124.

Blandina, martyr, 144.

Bonaventura, St., life of Christ, 7;
honouring the rich, 228.

Bonfires of gaudy dresses, 262, 264.

Boniface, St., missionary, 116.

Boy bishop, feast of, 81.

Bristol cathedral, 471.

Bronzes for gates of Paradise, 480.

Bruce, Robert, a crusader, 432.

Buffalmacco, painter, 475, 477.

Buffoons, feast of the, 81.

Burial of monks, 227.

Bury St. Edmunds monastery, 304, 306, 307.

Cædmon, monk poet, 222.

Cano, painter, 500.

Canterbury, monks of, 189;
pilgrims to, 192;
cathedral, 463.

Canute, visiting Rome, 346;
rebuking the sea, 346.

Capernaum, 54, 62.

Cardinals, origin of, 328.

Carileff, St., the hermit, 169.

Carlisle cathedral, 469.

Carthusians, 296, 300.

Cassino, Monte, monastery, 209.

Cassiodorus, his library, 236.

Cathedrals, spires and dimensions, 440;
Gothic, 441;
St. Peter's, 442;
Genoa, 444;
Turin, 444;
Milan, 445;
Florence, 446;
Pisa, 446;
San Gennaro, 447;
Santiago, 448;
Leon, 449;
Seville, 450;
Toledo, 450;
Cordova, 451;
Amalfi, 451;
Oviedo, 452;
Paris, Notre Dame, 453;
Marseilles, 454;
Chartres, 454;
Amiens, 454;
Rheims, 455;
Aix-la-Chapelle, 455;
Treves, 456;
Antwerp, 456;
Cologne, 457;
St. Petersburg, 457;
Vienna, 458;
St. Paul's, 461;
Canterbury, 463;
York, 463;
Durham, 465;
Winchester, 466;
Oxford, 466;
Peterborough, 467;
Salisbury, 468;
Wells, 468;
English and Welsh, 469, 470.

Catherine of Siena, 314.

Cecilia, St., martyr, 144.

Chad, St., 275.

Chanting of monks, 225;
of Charles V. as monk, 322.

Charlemagne, doubts as to monks, 214;
leaving his court to be monk, 215;
monk at his court, 215.

Charles V., Emperor, as monk, 318;
his dress, 319;
apartments, 319;
detestation of heretics, 320.

Chartres cathedral, 454.

Cheese, painter fed on, 461.

Chichester cathedral, 470.

Children's crusade, 428.

Chimes on bells, 502.

Christian, name of, 94;
viewed by Pagans, 97;
oppose wild beasts, 97.

Christmas Day, 79.

Christ in Egypt, 7;
as a boy, 9;
portraits of, 11, 12;
false, 21;
sentence on, 44;
blood of, 188;
painted by Micael, 190.

Christina and the millstone, 389.

Christopher, St., 389.

Chrysostom, St., as hermit, 150;
as preacher, 201;
on monkery, 201;
on speaking in church, 201.

Church, building age, 84;
spires of, 440;
dimensions, 440;
altars in, 441;
bells, 501;
chimes, 502;
music, 503.

Church, apostolic, 64;
early, 64;
ancient buildings, 72;
service, 75;
organs and bells, 76;
sexes in, 77;
praying for dead, 77;
festivals, 80.

Cimabue, painter, 475.

Cinderella of the convent, 230.

Cistercians, 297, 300.

Clara, St., and the Saracens, 310.

Claudius of Turin, 133.

Clergy, dress, 69;
foppish, 69;
unity of, 326.

Clovis, conversion of, 334.

Cluny, monks of, 284.

Coldingham, nuns of, 283.

Cologne, archbishop, 345;
cathedral, 457.

Columba, St., of Iona, 269, 270.

Columban, monk, 210, 271.

Columbus, crusader, 435.

Community of goods, 65.

Compostella and St. James, 35, 36, 448.

Conecte, Thomas, the monk, 263.

Conrad, St., 399.

Constantine, 99;
standard of cross, 100;
dream, 100;
preaching, 101;
last illness, 102.

Constantinople, French pillaging, 425;
cathedrals, 458.

Constantius testing Christians, 98.

Convent, life in a, 217.

Coptic church, 439.

Cordova cathedral, 451.

Correggio, painter, 491.

Cosmas, the monk tutor, 131.

Council, of Nice, 102;
owl attending, 370.

Creeds, monks deciding on, 234.

Cross, forms of, 15;
discovery of, 15;
nails of, 16;
legend of, 17;
dividing into parts, 183.

Crown of thorns pawned, 19.

Croyland, St. Guthlac at, 169, 170;
monks of, 283;
burning of abbey, 283, 290;
Turketul as abbot, 286.

Crucifix during plague, 190;
clumsy, 482.

Crucifixion, thieves at, 16.

Crusaders, beginnings of, 408;
Peter the hermit on, 411;
and the earth of Palestine, 413;
how they treated spies, 414;
and the holy lance, 415;
testing a doubtful point, 417;
first sight of Jerusalem, 417;
capturing Jerusalem, 419;
first visit to holy places, 419;
Bernard's second crusade, 420;
French Queen at, 421;
bringing home relics, 422;
Fulk of Neuilly, 424;
death of Richard I., 424;
pillaging Constantinople, 425;
attacking heretics, 425;
Albigenses, 427;
children's, 428;
more preaching for, 428;
paying money for, 429;
master of Hungary, 430;
deathbed of Louis of France, 431;
entertained, 431;
dying king as, 432;
Knights Templars, 433;
faith in Providence, 434;
Columbus as, 435;
numbers of, 436;
Greek Church and pilgrims, 437.

Customs, early church, 65.

Cuthbert, St., 275, 278;
his body carried, 277;
his shrine at Durham, 465.

Cyprian, St., and Justina, martyrs, 150.

Cyril, St., of Alexandria, 204.

Damascus and rivers, 54;
John of, 131, 132.

Damiani, Peter, 85.

Dancing mania, 91.

Deaconess, 72.

Dead, prayers for, 77.

Dead Sea, measurements, 53.

Deathbed of Constantine, 102;
of abbess, 221, 274;
of monk, 227;
of Bede, 278;
of abbot, 302.

Decretals, false, 117.

Derwentwater, monk at, 171.

Devil and St. Christopher, 391;
showing a book, 392;
and Theophilus, 393.

Didymus and Theodora, martyrs, 149.

Divine right, king by, 352.

Divining-rod, 387.

Doctors of the Middle Ages, 302.

Dominic, St., 86;
preaching, 253.

Dominico, painter, 498.

Donato, sculptor, 478.

Dorotheus, architect to hermits, 166.

Douglas, the, as crusader, 432.

Dream, of Constantine, 100;
St. Augustine's faith in, 203.

Dress of clergy, 69, 92.

Dunstan, St., relics, 189;
as monk, 285.

Durham cathedral, 465.

Easter Day, 79.

Edward the Confessor and St. John, 33.

Egypt, Holy Family in, 5.

Einsiedeln monastery, 281.

Eleanor, Queen, as crusader, 421.

Eligius, bishop, 339.

Elizabeth of Hungary, 310.

Ely monks capturing relics, 182;
cathedral, 469.

Emblems of Christians, 66.

Emperor as monk, 320;
abdication of, 330;
excommunication of, 359;
retaliating on Pope, 360;
as crusader, 423.

Empire, Roman, 140, 141.

Empress begging for relics, 185.

England, St. Augustine landing in, 245, 246.

Ethelbert receiving St. Augustine, 246.

Ethelwald, hermit of Farne, 172.

Eton montem, 82.

Exeter cathedral, 469.

Extortioners of Pope, 361.

Farne, hermits of, 172, 175;
Aidan at, 272;
Cuthbert at, 275, 276.

Fathers, the, 194;
Origen, 194;
Ambrose, 195, 196;
Jerome, 197;
Chrysostom, 200;
Augustine, 202;
Cyril, 204;
notions of, 205.

Felicitas, martyr, 144.

Festivals in church, 80, 83.

Fishes, St. Antony preaching to, 406.

Flagellants, 91.

Florence cathedral, 446.

Fly killed by monk, 232.

Foppish clergy, 69;
Pope, 374.

Fortunes, telling by Bible, 93;
Eligius on, 248.

Foundlings in Paris, 260.

France receiving crown of thorns, 186.

Francia, painter, 484.

Francis, St., of Assisi, 254;
dexterity, 255;
stigmata, 255;
biographer of, 256;
and the birds, 403;
and the wolf, 404.

Friars and monks, 219;
the order of, 230;
wearing shoes, 257;
startling the judges, 261;
burning ornaments, 262, 264.

Frogs rebuked by monk, 232.

Fructuosus and the doe, 397.

Fulk of Neuilly, 252, 424.

Fuller on relics, 183;
on monks, 214, 219.

Galilee, sea of, 53, 54;
population, 56.

Gall, St., monks of, 274.

Geismar, oak of, 116.

Genes, St., martyr, 148.

Genesius, martyr, 148.

Geneviève, St., patron saint, 179.

Genoa cathedral, 444.

Gervasius, relics of, 196.

Ghiberti, sculptor, 480.

Gibbon on monks, 207.

Glasgow, St. Mungo at, 268.

Glastonbury, monks of, 189;
chanting, 225.

Gloucester cathedral, 470.

Gnat stinging hermit, 165.

Godiva, lady, 399.

Gold, painter at sight of, 482.

Gothic cathedrals, 440.

Goths sacking Rome, 113.

Greek Church, 400, 437.

Greek philosophers driven out, 115;
Church and Latin, 119.

Gregorian chant, dispute about, 225.

Gregory the Great sending missionaries to England, 246;
a hard case put, 336;
supper of, 395;
releasing Trajan, 396.

Gregory, St., on relics, 185.

Gregory VII., 137.

Grosso, sculptor, 482.

Guizot on power of Popes, 138.

Guthlac, St., the hermit, 169.

Hallelujah victory, 391.

Hameln, piper of, 399.

Handel, 511.

Hatto, Bishop, and the rats, 398.

Heloïse, nun, 294.

Herbert, St., monk of Derwentwater, 171.

Hereford cathedral, 471.

Heretic refuted, 103;
Huss as, 377;
pleasure of burning, 378;
of Middle Ages, 382;
crusaders against, 425.

Hermits, outbreak of zeal, 160;
Antony, 161;
visit to another, 162;
bunch of grapes to, 162;
courtesies of, 162;
trying to quarrel, 163;
political economy of, 163;
St. Pambo, 164;
olive tree of, 164;
stung by gnat, 165;
Martin of Tours, 165;
Dorotheus, 166;
St. Poemen, 167;
St. Moyses, 167;
Barnadatus, 168;
St. Carileff, 169;
Saxon hermits, 169;
St. Guthlac, 170;
Simeon Stylites, 171;
St. Herbert, 171;
Ethelwald, 172;
Queen consulting, 174;
a conscientious, 174;
St. Bartholomew of Farne, 175;
French King sending for, 176;
consecration of, 177;
invited by the Pope, 229;
made Pope, 363.

Hermon, Mount, 57.

Herod and Holy Family, 5, 46.

Henry II., King, at Becket's tomb, 355.

Hervé, little blind, 395.

Hilda, St., deathbed, 274.

Hildebrand, Pope, 137.

Hillel, relationship, 49.

History, church, how divided, 63.

Holidays in Church, 80.

Holy Family in Egypt, 5, 6.

Holy Grail, 394.

Holy water, 442.

Host, the, 75.

Huss, martyr, 152;
on indulgences, 371;
burnt as heretic, 377.

Hymns, church, 506.

Iconoclasts, 129, 130, 136.

Ignatius Loyola, 259.

Illuminating by monks, 241.

Image, demolishing, 112, 121;
worship, 129, 136;
converting, 134;
in churches, 472.

Incense in churches, 442.

Indulgences, sale of, 371.

Innocents, massacre of, 4.

Inquisition, 377;
assassination of inquisitor, 380;
auto-da-fè, 380.

Interdict, papal, 356.

Irene, Empress, 135.

Isabella, Queen, 381.

Isidore forging decretals, 118.

James, intercisus, martyr, 151.

James, St., 29, 34.

Jerome, St., life of Paul, 197;
the lion and ass, 198;
deathbed of, 199;
epistles of, 199.

Jerusalem, sieges, 50;
situation, 60;
crusaders at, 417;
churches of, 459.

Jews, sacred vessels, 114;
and Christians, 119, 128;
incited by Julian, 120;
golden age of, 121;
and Pope, 122;
of York, 122;
crucifying boys, 123, 125;
stealing Host, 125;
banquets of, 126;
in Spain, 126;
physicians, 127;
conversion of, 128;
the wandering, 392.

Joan of Arc, 153, 159.

Joan, Pope, 398.

Joanna made a nun, 308.

Jocelyn of Edmondsbury, 304, 307.

John, St., 30, 33.

John Baptist, St., 45.

John, King of England, 354.

John of Damascus, 131, 132.

John of Salisbury, 358.

John of Peckham, 362.

John the Almsgiver, 337.

Johnson, Dr., on monks, 207.

Jordan, measurements of, 53, 54.

Juanes, painter of Virgin, 3.

Jubilee year, 87.

Judas Iscariot, 41.

Julian the Apostate, 104.

Justinian and Theodora, 115.

Kempis, Thomas à, 315.

King, dying, sends for hermit, 176.

La Trappe monks, 312.

Lance, the holy, 415.

Lauder, St. Cuthbert, 275.

Legate of Pope visiting monastery, 307.

Legends, sacred, 385;
Thundering legion, 387;
Theban legion, 387;
divining-rod, 387;
St. George and dragon, 388;
Christina, 389;
Christopher, 389;
Hallelujah victory, 391;
Merlin's prophecies, 391;
devil showing a book, 392;
Wandering Jew, 392;
St. Sabas, 393;
Theophilus's compact, 393;
Holy Grail, 394;
Seven Sleepers, 394;
little blind Hervé, 395;
supper of St. Gregory, 395;
Gregory releasing Trajan, 396;
St. Bega, 397;
Fructuosus, 397;
Pope Joan, 398;
Bishop Hatto, 398;
St. Conrad, 399;
Piper of Hameln, 399;
Lady Godiva, 399;
sacred fire, 400;
Prester John, 401;
Loretto, 401;
St. Francis and the birds, 403;
St. Antony and the fishes, 406;
St. Roch, 407.

Legion, Thundering, 387;
Theban, 387.

Leo the Isaurian, 129.

Leo X., Pope, 375.

Leon cathedral, 449.

Leonardo da Vinci, 485.

Lepers tended by St. Francis, 254.

Lilies of the field, 58.

Lincoln cathedral, 470.

Lindisfarne, saints of, 272.

Lion and St. Jerome, 198;
and Saracen king, 352;
and St. Sabas, 393.

Liturgy, ancient, 73, 74.

Lives of the saints, 237.

Locusts warded off by monks, 244.

Loretto and holy cottage, 401.

Louis, St., of France, crown of thorns, 186;
a monk, 309;
deathbed of, 430.

Louis VII., 421.

Luke, St., 25.

Lull, Raimund, and Saracens, 258.

Luther revisiting old convent, 236;
on music, 509.

Lyons, martyrs of, 144.

Macarius, hermit, 162, 165.

Mahomet and Christianity, 115.

Manuscripts of monks, 238;
of nuns, 240.

Margaret of Scotland, 348.

Mark, St., 24.

Marseilles church, 453.

Martha, St., 48.

Martin of Tours, 112, 164.

Martyrs, early, 142;
Valeria, 142;
Thecla, 143;
Polycarp, 143;
Felicitas, 144;
of Lyons, 144;
Cecilia, 145;
Ursula, 146;
Perpetua, 146;
Barbara, 147;
Potamiana, 147;
St. Genes, 148;
Genesius, 149;
St. Alban, 149;
Didymus, 149;
Cyprian, 150;
Chrysostom, 150;
James, intercisus, 151;
Stephen, 151;
for images, 151, 177;
Huss, 152;
Joan of Arc, 153.

Mary Magdalene, 47.

Mary (Virgin), heathen knowledge of, 1;
portraits, 3;
marriage, 3;
in Egypt, 4;
assumption, 7;
death, 7.

Mass, 74.

Master of Hungary, 430.

Matilda of Flanders consulting hermit, 174.

Matthew, St., 24.

Medard, St., 83.

Meinrad, monk, 281.

Merlin's prophecies, 391.

Merom, Waters of, 55.

Methodius in Moravia, 247.

Micael painting a crucifix, 190.

Michael Angelo, 494.

Milan cathedral, 445.

Millennium in early times, 64, 84.

Miracles of St. Bernard, 298.

Miserere at Valencia, 452;
in Sistine Chapel, 508.

Missal painting of monks, 241.

Missionary of fourth century, 243;
mediæval, 261.

Model for painter, 483.

Moleme, Robert of, 226.

Monastery, life in, 216, 218;
how a site acquired, 235;
scriptorium, 237;
of Einsiedeln, 281;
Croyland, 283;
Cluny, 284;
of St. Bernard, 285;
fire at Croyland, 286, 290;
of Bec, 289;
St. Evroult, 292;
of Vallombrosa, 293;
Carthusians, 296;
Cistercians, 297;
Edmundsbury, 304;
rebuilding altar, 305;
of Mount Athos, 312;
Certosa, 313;
Yuste and Charles V., 318;
pictures in, 473.

Monks, Chrysostom on, 201;
origin of, 206;
Gibbon on, 207;
Dr. Johnson on, 207;
motives for becoming, 208;
weak side of, 208;
reformed by St. Benedict, 209;
Columban, 210;
settling in forest, 211;
denouncing king's ferocity, 211;
making them work, 212;
Benedict of Aniane, 212;
monk at court writing home, 213;
drinking wine in England, 214;
Charlemagne's doubts as to, 214;
Duke William, 215;
going to live at court, 215;
reasons for so many, 216;
life of, 216;
routine of English, 218;
officials in monastery, 218;
and friars, 219;
brawls with friars, 220;
orders of, 220;
wanting to be angels, 221;
abbess of Arles, deathbed, 221;
Cædmon, monk poet, 223;
sleeping too long, 223;
lecturing against idleness, 223;
war of two abbots, 224;
chanting, 225;
pillaging, 225;
living frugally, 226;
burial of, 227;
sick, 227;
honouring the rich, 228;
good lessons of, 229;
invited by Pope, 229;
at Sempringham, 231;
compunctions of, 232;
killing a fly, 232;
stealing food, 234;
deciding on creeds, 234;
interceding for prisoners, 235;
acquiring a site, 235;
Luther at grave of, 236;
and polite letters, 236;
of St. Gall, 237;
manuscripts of, 238;
missal painting, 239;
illuminating, 241;
proselytising, 243;
warding off locusts, 244;
Severinus, 244;
Fulk of Neuilly, 252;
Dominic, 253;
Francis, 254;
Thomas Conecte, 263;
Arsenius, 266;
Ninian, 267;
Mungo, 267;
Columba, 269;
Columban, 271;
Aidan, 272;
Chad, 273;
Bede, 275, 278;
Cuthbert, 275;
Duke William, 280;
Meinrad, 282;
of Croyland, 283, 290;
Dunstan, 285;
of St. Bernard, 285;
Turketul, 286;
Nilus, 287;
of Bec, 289;
Abelard, 295;
Cluny, 295, 300;
St. Bernard, 297, 299;
Peter the Venerable, 300;
Edmundsbury, 304, 307;
stealing a psalm-book, 308;
for a king, 309;
the starved, 311;
Athos, 312;
of La Trappe, 312;
Lucca, 314;
Peter of Alcantara, 316;
the Emperor Charles V. as, 318;
on the crusades, 408;
painters, 473;
feeding the painter, 481;
bargaining for pictures, 498;
musicians, 506.

Monsignori, painter, 483.

Moravia, missionaries in, 247.

More, Sir T., on relics, 183.

Moyses, St., water-carrier to hermits, 167.

Mungo, Scottish saint, 267.

Murillo, painter, 499.

Music of monks, 238, 241;
church, 503.

Names, Christian, 66.

Naples, chapel at, 447.

Nazareth, 61.

Neander on monks, 209.

Neot, the Cornish saint, 250.

Nero's persecution, 96.

Nice, council of, 102.

Nicholas Peregrinus, 507.

Nicholas V., Pope, 372.

Nicolas, monk, starved, 311.

Nicolas, Pope, 118.

Nilus, monk, 287, 289.

Ninian, Scottish saint, 267.

Norbert on clerical vices, 252.

Norwich cathedral, 469.

Notre Dame, Paris, 453.

Nuns at Sempringham, 231;
of Basle, wars of, 233;
embroidery of, 240;
converting the Iberians, 243;
of Coldingham, 283;
St. Catherine of Siena, 314;
marrying a king, 350;
criticising their artist, 477.

Olive tree of hermit, 164.

Olives, Mount of, 60.

Omar, mosque of, 459.

Oratorios, 509.

Organs in church, 76, 504.

Origen, one of the Fathers, 194.

Orleans, siege, and Joan of Arc, 156.

Otto, Bishop in Pomerania, 251.

Oviedo cathedral, 452.

Owl at church council, 370.

Oxford cathedral, 466.

Pagans, difficulties with, 96, 118;
silenced, 103;
temples demolished, 109.

Painters, sacred, 472;
Cimabue, 475;
Buffalmacco, 475, 477;
Donato, 478;
Aretino, 479;
Angelico, 479;
Ghiberti, 480;
Uccello, 481;
Grosso, 482;
Pinturicchio, 482;
Monsignori, 483;
Francia, 484;
Leonardo da Vinci, 485;
Raphael, 487;
Torrigiano, 490;
Correggio, 491;
Becerra, 492;
Michael Angelo, 492;
Vargas, 495;
Titian, 495;
Adriano, 496;
Rubens, 497;
Dominico, 498;
Velasquez, 498;
Murillo, 499;
Cano, 500;
Thornhill, 501.

Palestine explorations, 52;
climate, 57;
fruits, flowers, birds, 58, 60;
pilgrimages to, 409.

Palm tree and Holy Family, 5.

Pambo, St., the hermit, 164.

Paradise, sculptures fit for, 480.

Paris, patron saint, 179;
cathedral, 453.

Passion plays, 82.

Pastoral staff, 71.

Patrick, St., sermon, 244.

Patron saints, 179.

Paul, St., 37, 40.

Paul Diaconus writing home, 213.

Paul, the hermit, 162;
life by St. Jerome, 197;
visited by Antony, 197, 198.

Penmanship of monks, 239.

Perpetua, martyr, 146.

Perspective of old painters, 481.

Peter of Alcantara, 316.

Peter, St., 37, 39.

Peter the Hermit, 411.

Peter the Venerable, 300.

Peterborough cathedral, 467.

Petersburg cathedral, 457.

Pharisaism, 50.

Philip, St., 28.

Philip the Fair and Pope, 364.

Pilate, Pontius, 45.

Pilgrims to Compostella, 35;
to Walsingham, 191;
in Switzerland, 192;
to Canterbury, 192;
to Palestine, 409;
ways of pilgrims, 410;
Peter the Hermit, 411;
Greek Church, 437.

Pillar monks, 171.

Pinturicchio, painter, 482.

Pisa cathedral, 446.

Plague, crucifix during, 190.

Plays, miracle and passion, 82.

Pliny on Christians, 97.

Poemen, the hermit, 167.

Polycarp, martyr, 143.

Pope defending Rome, 117;
and Jews, 122;
ambitious, 137, 138;
supremacy of, 326;
election of, 328;
and the pestilence, 335;
kissing the foot, 340;
two scapegrace, 344;
interdict of, 357;
candid friend of, 358;
extortioners of, 361;
hermit made, 363;
Philip the Fair and, 364;
Boniface VIII., 365;
the rival, 367, 368;
deposed, 370;
a fop, 374;
Leo X., 375;
Sixtus V., 376;
lawyer as, 383;
Joan, 398;
Urban II. on Crusades, 413.

Potamiana, martyr, 147.

Praising day and night, 78.

Preachers, ancient, 68.

Prester John, 401.

Prisoners monk interceding for, 235.

Prodigies, the sages on, 43.

Psalm-book stolen by monk, 308.

Purcell, 510.

Pyx, the, 75.

Queen visiting hermit, 169, 174.

Rain, prayer for, 89.

Raphael, painter, 487.

Raven of the monks, 281.

Relics, reverence for, 180;
secrecy in removing, 181;
capturing, 181;
stealing, 182;
defending, 183;
forgery of, 183;
flattering worshipper of, 184;
empress begging for, 185;
deciding on genuine, 185;
crown of thorns, 186;
received in France, 187;
discovery of St. Stephen's, 188;
St. Dunstan's, 189;
Huss on, 190;
St. Andrew's head, 191;
St. Gervasius, 196.
_See also_ "Cathedrals."

Rheims cathedral, 455.

Richard I., story of an ingrate, 402;
death of, 424.

Rienzi, tribune, 139.

Riots, religious, 68.

Ritualism, rise of, 74.

Rob Roy on the Jordan, 55.

Roch, St., 407.

Roman Empire, last hours, 140;
Holy Roman Empire, 141.

Rome sacked by Goths, 112;
by Huns, 112;
by Vandals, 114;
Lombards at, 117;
St. Peter's, 442;
Sistine Chapel, 443.

Rosary, festival, 83.

Rose, festival of, 83.

Round towers, 85.

Rubens, painter, 497.

Russia, conversion of, 251.

Sabas and the lion, 393.

Sacro monte, 473.

St. Bernard, Great, pilgrims at, 192.

St. Gall monastery, 224, 237, 248.

St. Paul's cathedral, 464.

St. Peter's, Rome, 442.

Saints, miracles of, 178;
patron, 179;
lives of, 237.

Salisbury cathedral, 468.

Sampson of Edmundsbury, 303, 306, 307.

Sanhedrim, 49.

Santiago cathedral, 35, 448.

Saracens converted by Raimund Lull, 258;
a king of, 352.

Sarto, Andrea del, 473, 499.

Savonarola, 264.

Schetzelo, conscientious hermit, 174.

Schoolmen, the, 302.

Scotsman travelling to Rome, 303.

Sempringham, nuns of, 231.

Septuagint, 20.

Serapis, temple of, 110.

Seven, number, 87.

Seville cathedral, 450.

Shoes of friars, 257.

Sibyl prophecy of Christ, 1.

Simeon, St., 27.

Simeon Stylites, 171.

Simeon's great age, 2.

Sin-eaters at funerals, 78.

Singing in church, 504.

Sistine Chapel, Rome, 443.

Sixtus V., Pope, 376.

Slavery and early Christians, 95.

Sleepers, the Seven, 394.

Soldier piercing Christ, 17.

Spanish Jews, 126;
image worship, 136;
Inquisition, 379;
auto-da-fè, 380;
miraculous images, 474.

Stations of cross, 18.

Stealing of relics, 182;
of monk's food, 234.

Stephen, martyr for images, 151.

Stephen, St., first martyr, relics, 188.

Strasburg cathedral, 454.

Sultan and the lion, 352.

Sunday, Palm, 80.

Superstitions, Eligius denouncing, 248.

Sweating sickness, 91.

Swiss horns, 502.

Swithin, St., 341.

Symmachus defending Pagans, 108.

Telemachus and wild beasts, 98.

Templars, Knight, 433.

Temple, Jews rebuilding, 120.

Theban legion, 387.

Thecla, St., martyr, 143.

Theodora, empress, 135.

Theodore's image of Christ, 111.

Theodosius and the Pagans, 109, 111.

Theological disputes, 105.

Theophilus and the devil, 393.

Theresa, St., and her visions, 317.

Thomas, St., 26.

Thornhill, painter, 501.

Thorns, crown of, 19, 186.

Thundering legion, 387.

Tiberias, sea of, 53, 54.

Timothy, St., 27.

Titian, 495.

Titus, St., 28.

Toledo cathedral, 450.

Torquemada and Jews, 126;
as inquisitor, 379.

Torrigiano, sculptor, 490.

Trading, monks on, 229.

Treves cathedral, 456.

Trinitarian controversy, 106;
sermon on, 108.

Trisagion riots, 68.

Truce of God, 86.

Turin cathedral, 444.

Turketul at Croyland, 286.

Turstin, archbishop, 353.

Uccello, painter, 481.

Ugliest of men archbishop, 345.

Ursula, St., martyr, 146.

Valencia, Miserere at, 452.

Valeria, martyr, 142.

Vandals sacking Rome, 114.

Vargas, painter, 495.

Velasquez, painter, 498.

Veronica, St., 48.

Vienna cathedral, 458.

Villani, account of jubilee, 87.

Vincent de Paul, 260.

Virgin, portraits of, 3;
worship of 85;
holy cottage, 401.

Viviers monastery, 236.

Waldenses, 382.

Walsingham, pilgrims to, 191.

Wells cathedral, 468.

Welsh cathedrals, 471.

Whitby abbey, Cædmon at, 222;
St. Hilda at, 274.

Wicliff, the reformer, 365.

Wild-beast shows, 97.

William, Duke, becomes monk, 215, 280.

William the Conqueror's death, 348.

Winchester cathedral, 466.

Worcester cathedral, 471.

Working man, 50.

Wulfstan of Worcester, 293.

Ximenes, cardinal, 381.

York Minster, 463.

Yuste monastery and Charles V., 318.

Zacharias, 44.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.

The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations.

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