. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. ST. NORBERT. 211 ga,riments. The four-cornered cap or beret, worn by the canons, was also to be white instead of black Therule was that of St. Augustine, but the discipline so severeth;att it was found necessary to modify it. Still, the necessityof monastic reform was so universally felt, that, even in thecoinmencement, it found favour with the people. St. Norbertlived to count 1200 members of his community; was createdApehbishop of Magdeburg by the Emperor Lothaire; and, aftera most active and laborious ministry,
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. ST. NORBERT. 211 ga,riments. The four-cornered cap or beret, worn by the canons, was also to be white instead of black Therule was that of St. Augustine, but the discipline so severeth;att it was found necessary to modify it. Still, the necessityof monastic reform was so universally felt, that, even in thecoinmencement, it found favour with the people. St. Norbertlived to count 1200 members of his community; was createdApehbishop of Magdeburg by the Emperor Lothaire; and, aftera most active and laborious ministry, died in 1134. .En the German prints and pictures St. Norbert has the cope,mitre, and crosier, as archbishop, and carries the sacramentalcup in his hand, over which is seen a spider, in allusion to thefollowing story:— One day that Norbert had consecrated the bread and winefor the ceremony of the mass, on lifting the cup to his lips heperceived within it a large venomous spider. He hesitated—what should he do ? To spill the sacred contents on the groundwas pr
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