The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged . the Lambof God. But at all times his almost invari-able attribute is the cross. 108 THE SAINTS IN ART Frescoes by Fra Lippo Lippi in the Duomoof Prato ; by Andrea del Sarto and FranciaBigio in the Cloisters del Scalzo, Florence,and by Pinturicchio in the Duomo of Siena. JOHN, St. (Capistrano). (23rd October) A Franciscan friar renowned for his preach-ing and his encouragement of the Christiansagainst the Mahometans, at the time of thecapture of Constantinople. He died in 1465and was canonised a few years after the
The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged . the Lambof God. But at all times his almost invari-able attribute is the cross. 108 THE SAINTS IN ART Frescoes by Fra Lippo Lippi in the Duomoof Prato ; by Andrea del Sarto and FranciaBigio in the Cloisters del Scalzo, Florence,and by Pinturicchio in the Duomo of Siena. JOHN, St. (Capistrano). (23rd October) A Franciscan friar renowned for his preach-ing and his encouragement of the Christiansagainst the Mahometans, at the time of thecapture of Constantinople. He died in 1465and was canonised a few years after the de-liverance of Vienna from the Turks, in 1683,in commemoration of the event. Portrait by Bartolomeo Vivarini in theLouvre. John the Evangelist, St. (Ital. San Gio-vanni; Ger. Johann). (Biblical.) (SeeEvangelists.) (27th December)Tradition says that St. John was sent toRome in the reign of Domitian, and cast intoa cauldron of boiling oil, but was miraculouslypreserved. He was afterwards exiled toPatmos, where he wrote the Apocalypse,returning thence to Ephesus, where he died. THE SAINTS IN ART 109 at the age of nearly a hundred years. Alegend relates that once in Rome an attemptwas made to poison him in the sacramentalcup, some say by order of Domitian, but thepoison issued miraculously from the cup inthe form of a serpent, while his enemies felldead at his feet, and he and the communi-cants were saved. A cup often shown in thehand of St. John may refer to this, or toChrists words to him : Ye shall indeeddrink of My cup. Various legends in thelife of St John are occasionally represented,such as his restoring to life Drusiana, a Chris-tian, at the gates of Ephesus. Also twoyoung men, his converts, having repented ofselling all their possessions, St. John toldthem to collect pebbles and faggots, andthese he turned into gold, bidding them goand enjoy earth, since they regretted theirexchange for heaven. The belief amongthe Apostles that he should not die gaverise to a legend, not
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