The Sermons, Lectures, and Speeches Delivered by His Eminence, Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop of Westminster; During His Tour in Ireland in August and September, 1858 (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. 1859 Excerpt: ...symbol is, that while the sacred text speaks only of six vessels of water at the marriage feast, here seven are invariably represented, and even placed so as to correspond with the seven baskets of bread. It is thus evident that the two miracles were meant to be exhibited as correlative, and no one can doubt but they presented to the Christian mind together the twofold elements which are found in the greatest of the sacraments, and brought to their loving thoughts that combination of power, wisdom, and love, whereby is wrought the immense, unbounded multiplication of the bread of life and the wine that rejoices the heart of man, the food and drink of God's house, which nourish to eternal life. Another choice subject often repeated was the curing of the paralytic. The patient is always represented carrying his bed upon his shoulders, which conveys to us the lesson drawn by our Saviour from the miracle, that in a similar manner, He, the institutor of the sacraments, could and would forgive us our sins. Besides the raising of Lazarus, which I have already described, there are no other representations of our Lord's actions. But I must observe that there are some large glasses, which have in the centre a little medallion with a full effigy of some person upon it, and compartments all round, with figures having the feet towards the centre; and sometimes a tablet bears the name of the person. In the compartments are painted six or eight scenes, from the Old and New Testaments. In these representations the two are mingled together, as if to show that the one glided gradually into the other; the one showing Christianity foreshadowed, and the other manifested. Having glanced at the Scriptural glasses, we come to the third division, or those belonging to the history o...