. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. nds and Oswalds, the Austins and Audrys andCuthberts, gave way very slowly to a companionship with theoutlandish worthies of a new dynasty: and it is amusing tofind that, in adopting these, the popular legends, in a trulynational spirit, claimed them as their own. According tothe local traditions, St. Georges father and mother lived inWarwickshire, and St. Ursula assembled her virgins atCoventry. The religious Orders which sprang up after the eleventhcentury brought over to us of course their own especial saintsand patriarchs.

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. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. nds and Oswalds, the Austins and Audrys andCuthberts, gave way very slowly to a companionship with theoutlandish worthies of a new dynasty: and it is amusing tofind that, in adopting these, the popular legends, in a trulynational spirit, claimed them as their own. According tothe local traditions, St. Georges father and mother lived inWarwickshire, and St. Ursula assembled her virgins atCoventry. The religious Orders which sprang up after the eleventhcentury brought over to us of course their own especial saintsand patriarchs. I confess I find no proof that these ever be-came very popular in England, as subjects of religious Art: LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS. or that their effigies, even before the Reformation, prevailedin our ecclesiastical edifices to any great degree. It does notappear that St. Bernard, St. Francis, St. Dominick, eversuperseded St. Ciithbert, St. Dunstan, and St. Thomas aBecket. But it was the reverse abroad, and we turn once more tothe splendours of foreign THE REFORMED BENEDICTINES.

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