Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Open Book, in the hands of a founder, often indicates the written rule of the Order, and sometimes the first words of the rule are inscribed on the page. The Scourge indicates self-inflicted penance, and is given in this sense to St. Dominick (who was famous for scourging himself), and St. Margaret of Cortona. Walking over the Sea or over rivers is a miracle attributed to so many saints, that it becomes necessary to distinguish them. St. Raymond the Dominican, and St. Francis de Paula the Capuchin, cross the sea on a cloak. St. Peter of Alcantara, a Franciscan, walks over the water. St. Hyacinth, the Dominican, walks over the river Dniester when swollen to a torrent, and is always distinguished by the image of the Virgin in his hand. St. Sebald, in a German print, crosses the Danube on his cloak. In devotional figures of these saints the miracle is often represented as an attribute in the background. Roses are sometimes an allusion to the name of the saint; St. Rosalia of Palermo, St. Rosa di Viterbo (Franciscan), St. Rosa di Lima (Dominican), all wear the crown of roses, or it is presented by an angel. But roses in the lap or the hand of St. Elizabeth are an attribute taken from her beautiful legend. The Cardinal's Hat is proper to St. Bonaventura, and he is the only monkish saint to whom it belongs; he is distinguished from St. Jerome, the other Cardinal- saint, by the Franciscan girdle, and the absence of the long beard. The Mitre and Pastoral Staff are borne by aMxits as well as bishops: the pastoral staff only, without the mitre, by abbesses. Slaves, with their chains broken, Beggars, Chil- In the German u Christliche Ikonographie, and other books of the kind, the cardinal's hat is mentioned as an attribute of St. Francis Borgia, the Jesuit. lie was...