Dedications and Patron Saints of English Churches; Ecclesiastical Symbolism Saints and Their Emblems. with 252 Illustrations (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...S. Benedict's directions were, "All the guests who come to us shall be received as the Lord Himself, for one day He will say, ' I was a stranger and ye took me in.' And when the guests are poor, Christ is more especially received in their persons."2 The story of S. Martin of Tours dividing his cloak with the beggar is one which the mediaeval world was not likely to let die. There was the famous story, too, of the Confessor and the ring and S. John Evangelist. One day the Confessor was returning from mass in the Abbey, when in a certain street of Westminster a beggar asked for alms, and the king drew the ring from his finger and gave it to him. Four and twenty years after two pilgrims in India, from Ludlow, met "an old man, white and hoary and joyously like unto a clerk," also in pilgrim's dress; who, when he found that they were Englishmen, admonished them that they should journey to King Edward, and should take the ring and say from me to him, 'This is the ring that thou didst give me in a certain street in Westminster, and I am John Evangelist. Six months from this day shalt thou quit the world and shalt abide with me for ever." And the two pilgrims went to their own country, and expounded these things to King Edward in his palace of Havering-atte-Bower, and gave the ring to him. And the king set forth to order his passing. Evidence for these things is that in the great collegiate church of Ludlow, founded by the Confessor, the stained glass in the chapel of S. John Evangelist depicts the story of the Ring. Also the name of " Havering" is held to be a corruption of "Have a ring." Nor did people forget that Our Lord went about healing the sick, and was at least as ready to relieve their bodies as their souls. Of ...