Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... (q.v.) is, I think, rather a complimentary tribute of a later age to the power of a saint who was supposed to have given virtue to the waters, by his prayers. WHEEL.--S. Catharine is not the only saint whose emblem is the wheel, nor is this wonderful, considering how common an instrument of torture and death it was in ancient times. S. Euphemia, S. Ouentin, S. Donatus, and S. Eucratida have it as their sign. S. Willigis bears a shield of a wheel arg. on a field gu., and S. Martin's arms are gu. a wheel or. A WOLF accompanies S. Vedast and S. Blaize, because of miracles connected therewith. S. Columban kneels among them to show the hardship and desolation of his life. CHAPTER XI. 0e (Ever QjJfesseb rtntfg. "No man hath seen God at any time: " and no man, one would have thought, had dared to make the likeness of the Three that bear witness in heaven in the light that no man can approach unto. Such however is not the case. The triangle or the intertwined fish, that satisfied the primitive Christians, were not considered realistic enough as time went on. There can be no question that it was reverence, and not unbelief; reticence, and not want of skill, that hindered the chisel and the brush of the early artist from attempting to portray the unknown and the unknowable. Would that the same reverence and godly fear had prevailed until the present day, as for eight centuries at least it did. Up till that time, though the Trinity was often shown it was not presented. The course of progress was somewhat in this order: First, the figure of the God-Man is represented accompanied by the Dove; a Hand above shows the Almighty Father. Or, the Lamb and the Cross, the Hand and the Dove; but these three are seldom all united, or..."
