. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. hemia was St. Adelbert, an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine fromthe kingdom of Northumbria. He converted Ludmilla, thegrandmother of Wenceslaus, venerated through northernGermany and Denmark as St. Wenzel. Ludmilla carefullyeducated the young prince in her own faith. Meantime, hisbrother Boleslaus had been brought up by his heathen motherDrahomira in all the dark errors of paganism. The charactersof the two princes corresponded with the tenets they respec-tively embraced. Wenceslaus was as mild, merciful, and just,as Boleslaus was fier
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. hemia was St. Adelbert, an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine fromthe kingdom of Northumbria. He converted Ludmilla, thegrandmother of Wenceslaus, venerated through northernGermany and Denmark as St. Wenzel. Ludmilla carefullyeducated the young prince in her own faith. Meantime, hisbrother Boleslaus had been brought up by his heathen motherDrahomira in all the dark errors of paganism. The charactersof the two princes corresponded with the tenets they respec-tively embraced. Wenceslaus was as mild, merciful, and just,as Boleslaus was fierce, cruel, perfidious. Bohemia was dividedby the two parties, the Christian and the heathen; and atlength Boleslaus and his wicked mother conspired to assas-MiiiT* sinate Ludmilla, as being the great protectress of the Chris-septals tians, and the enemy of their native gods. The hired murderersfound her praying at the foot of the cross in her private oratory,and strangled her with her own veil. Thus she became thefirst martyr-saint of Bohemia. ST. WENCESLAUS. 177. 35 938,Sept. 28. St. Ludmilla. (B. Max.) The turn of Wenceslaua came next; he had valiantly methis enemies in the field, though not even the atrocities ofDrahomira could induce him to forget his duty to her as ason. According to the legend, two angels from heavenvisibly protected Wenceslaus in battle; but they forsookhim, apparently, when, by the arts of his mother, he wasentrapped to pay her a visit, and slain by the hand of hisbrother at the foot of the altar and in the act of prayer. Wenceslaus lived at the time when the passion for relicshad spread over all Christendom. On a visit which hepaid to his friend Otho I., that warlike emperor bestowedon him certain relics of St. Vitus and St. Sigismond. Thusin the Bohemian pictures we have St. Wenceslaus and , all glorious In their princely robes, their crownsand palms, and shining armour; St. Ludmilla, with herpalm and her veil; St. Vitus, as a beautifu
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