. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . 29a. 2^)/. ^-F NEW YORK_: LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOXTILDFN FOUIVDATION3 ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE the bird would gaze towards him, thus attract-ing the disease to itself. The charadriuswould then fly up to the sun, where thepoison of the disease would be burned by theheat. This bird had a great thigh-bone, themarrow of which was supposed to restoresight to the blind. The symbohc interpretation refers to JesusChrist, Whose soul was perfectly white andfree from sin. He came down from heavenand turned His face from the Jews
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . 29a. 2^)/. ^-F NEW YORK_: LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOXTILDFN FOUIVDATION3 ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE the bird would gaze towards him, thus attract-ing the disease to itself. The charadriuswould then fly up to the sun, where thepoison of the disease would be burned by theheat. This bird had a great thigh-bone, themarrow of which was supposed to restoresight to the blind. The symbohc interpretation refers to JesusChrist, Whose soul was perfectly white andfree from sin. He came down from heavenand turned His face from the Jews, but lookedupon the Gentiles, and healed them of theirspiritual diseases. Is the symbohsm of thecharadrius partly drawn from such Biblicalpassages as Ezek. vii. 22 and Ps. Ixxx. 7 ? The sick person is often representedcrowned in the mediaeval MSS., in allusionto the idea that the charadrius is found in thecourts of kings. In the sculpture at Alne(which looks rather like a raven pecking outthe eyes of a dead man) the inscription, Caladrms, shows what the interpretationmust be.
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