The innocents abroad; . er itscoarse mosaics, its unlovely Byzantine architecture, or its fivehundred curious interior columns from as many distant thing was worn out—every block of stone was smoothand almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders•of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries andhave died and gone to the dev—no, simplj^ died, I mean. Under the altar repose the ashes of St, Mark—and Matthew,Luke and John, too, for all I know. Yenice reveres those rel-ics above all things earthly. For fourteen hundred years has been her patron saint. E
The innocents abroad; . er itscoarse mosaics, its unlovely Byzantine architecture, or its fivehundred curious interior columns from as many distant thing was worn out—every block of stone was smoothand almost shapeless with the polishing hands and shoulders•of loungers who devoutly idled here in by-gone centuries andhave died and gone to the dev—no, simplj^ died, I mean. Under the altar repose the ashes of St, Mark—and Matthew,Luke and John, too, for all I know. Yenice reveres those rel-ics above all things earthly. For fourteen hundred years has been her patron saint. Every thing about the city 15 226 THE GLORY OF VENICE. seems to be named after liim or so named as to refer to liim insome way—so named, or some purchase rigged in some way toscrape a sort of hurrahing acquaintance with him. That seemsto be the idea. To be on good terms with St. Mark, seems tobe the very summit of Venetian ambition. They say St. Markhad a tame lion, and used to travel with him—and every where. THE CATHEDRAL OP ST. MARK S. that St. Mark went, the lion was sure to go. It was his pro-tector, his friend, his librarian. And so the Winged Lion ofSt. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite em-blem in the grand old city. It casts its shadow from the mostancient pillar in Yenice, in the Grand Square of St. Mark,upon the throngs of free citizens below, and has so done formany a long centnry. Tlie winged lion is fonnd every where—and doubtless here, where the winged lion is, no harm cancome. A TREASURE SECURED. 227 St, Mark died at Alexandria, in Egypt. He was martyred,I think. However, that has nothing to do with my the founding of the city of Yenice—say four hundredand fifty years after Christ—(for Yenice is much younger thanany other Italian city,) a priest dreamed that an angel told himthat until the remains of St. Mark were brought to Yenice,the city could never rise to high distinction among the nations;that the body must
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