. The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types ; St. John the Baptist ; and other persons of the Old and New Testament. instead of diminishing it. It is He whois compassionating or suffering with her, not vice versa. The in-cident of her fainting is worse still; it is a poor subject for Art,occupies others with her sufferings instead of with His, and is con-trary to that character of the Blessed Virgin conveyed by Scriptureand preserved in tradition, as the Mother who was constant to herSon, non solum corpore sed et mentis constantia. Another aspect of the pa
. The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types ; St. John the Baptist ; and other persons of the Old and New Testament. instead of diminishing it. It is He whois compassionating or suffering with her, not vice versa. The in-cident of her fainting is worse still; it is a poor subject for Art,occupies others with her sufferings instead of with His, and is con-trary to that character of the Blessed Virgin conveyed by Scriptureand preserved in tradition, as the Mother who was constant to herSon, non solum corpore sed et mentis constantia. Another aspect of the part assigned by legend or the paintersimagination to the Virgin is less unworthy of her. In various formsof Art, ivories, drawings, and painted glass, chiefly of Northernorigin, the Virgin may be observed attempting herself to bear theweight of the Cross. These are instances when our Lord is stillupright beneath it, and when her feeble hand touching the burdengives little more than the pathetic idea of her yearning to relieveher suffering Son (woodcut, No. 168, over leaf). St. John, too,sometimes participates in this action. 112 HISTORY OF OUR 168 Christ carrying His Cross. (French Bible. Bibl. Imp., Paris. But the fittest part taken by the holy and submissive Mother ofthe Lord, if seen upon the road at all, is not as the mother onlyafter the flesh, vainly endeavouring to save her offspring, but asthe first and firmest believer in His mission—she who kept Hissayings in her heart, and at His first miracle showed no surprise ;who knew that He had a baptism to be baptized with, and wasstraitened till it should be accomplished (Luke xii. 50). In apicture by G-irolamo di Santa Croce (painted in 1520), in theBerlin G-allerj^ our Lord is seen bearing His Cross, followed onlyby Pilate and a soldier; His Mother, St. John, and the Maries,stand looking on by the road side as much in awe as in sympathy,as if knowing that He must be doing His Fathers business, unaidedand almost unpi
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