The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged . acles are related of A certain prince of Provence and hiswife promised to believe the Gospel if theywere granted a son. They set out to Jerusa-lem to prove the truth of what they were told,and on the way a son was born, but themother died. The sailors insisted on puttingthe baby, and the body of its mother, ashoreon a rocky, uninhabited island. The princeprayed to St. Mary for the safety of his child,and when he returned, two years later, hefound it alive and well, and the woman cameto life again at the ap
The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged . acles are related of A certain prince of Provence and hiswife promised to believe the Gospel if theywere granted a son. They set out to Jerusa-lem to prove the truth of what they were told,and on the way a son was born, but themother died. The sailors insisted on puttingthe baby, and the body of its mother, ashoreon a rocky, uninhabited island. The princeprayed to St. Mary for the safety of his child,and when he returned, two years later, hefound it alive and well, and the woman cameto life again at the approach of her says that St. Mary went into soli-tude in the wilderness, and remained therethirty years, fasting, reading, and oftenvisited by angels, who bore her at last toheaven. She is represented as very beautiful, usuallywith long fair hair. Her indispensable attri-bute is a box of ointment. Sometimes she isin the desert, praying or reading, and withemblems of penance. Her figure is alwayssymbolic of Christian penitence. Fresco, Noli me Tangere, by Fra. n ~ 2 -^- * < 5: 7 % n :S < a _ Kz = 2 t Z H 5 3 < = £ THE SAINTS IN ART 139 Angelico, in San Marco, Florence, andpicture by Titian, in the Pitti. Series offrescoes by Ferrari, in San Cristoforo, Ver-celli. Mary the Virgin, St. (Biblical). {2nd Feb-ruary, 2$th March, i^tli August, 2ndJuly, St/i September)According to the Apocryphal Gospel ofthe Life of Mary, Joachim of Nazarethespoused Anna, a maiden of both did right in the sight of theLord, dividing their substance into threeparts—one for the Temple and its ministers,another for pilgrims and the poor, and athird for themselves and their living twenty years without children,the)- vowed to the Lord that if He wouldgive them a child, they would dedicate itto Him. Joachim used to go up to Jerusalemfor the great feasts, and at the Feast of theDedication, being repelled by the High Priestas childless, and unworthy to
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