The Open court . The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Rome. (After F. X. Kraus.) to Fabretti the vial in his sons hand would indicate that Eutropusdied a martyrs death. 1 The inscription reads : AriOS, etc. See Kraus. 2The term ciytos, saint or saintly, is a synonym of Christian, It is a term by which themembers of Ctiristian congregations frequently called themselves. THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF DEATH. 759 During the Middle Ages people were anxious to have theirbodies rest in holy ground where they would be protected until. The Dying Mans Temptation.(From Ars Moriendi; first temptation. Devils t
The Open court . The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Rome. (After F. X. Kraus.) to Fabretti the vial in his sons hand would indicate that Eutropusdied a martyrs death. 1 The inscription reads : AriOS, etc. See Kraus. 2The term ciytos, saint or saintly, is a synonym of Christian, It is a term by which themembers of Ctiristian congregations frequently called themselves. THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPTION OF DEATH. 759 During the Middle Ages people were anxious to have theirbodies rest in holy ground where they would be protected until. The Dying Mans Temptation.(From Ars Moriendi; first temptation. Devils try to induce him to seek as-sistance from false gods, after the manner of the pagans, or to escape suffermg bycommitting suicide.) doomsday against the evil influence of the Devil. Thus the deadwere buried underneath the pavement of the churches or in their 760 THE OPEN COURT. immediate vicinity. And here, too, the materialism of the earlyChristianity is retained, for almost all the mediaeval tombstonesidentify the deceased person with his remains that lie in the most common style of their inscriptions reads Ci-git, or Herelies, or Hier riiht, etc., and if it is ornamented with sculpture, the stone frequently represents theman as lying in the coffin. It israther an exception that Sieg-fried of Eppstein, archbishopof Mayence, is represented ascrowning two kings of Ger-many, Henry Raspe and Wil-liam of Holland. Apparentlythese two actions were re-garded as the most gloriousevents of his life. But evenhere
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