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LUMENA PAXTE CVMFI

A rearrangement of the tiles made the inscription, Pax Te-cum, Fi-lumena. That this was the correct rendering is quite certain, for the virgin martyr herself told a priest and a nun in a dream, that she was Fi[lia] Lumina, the daughter of Lumina, i.e. the daughter of the Light of the world. In confirmation of this dream, as her bones were carried to Mugnano, the saint repaired her own skeleton, made her hair grow, and performed so many miracles, that those must indeed be hard of belief who can doubt the truth of the story.

St. George is the national saint of England, in consequence of the miraculous assistance rendered by him to the arms of the Christians under Godfrey de Bouillon during the first crusade.

St. George’s Sword, Askelon.

George he shaved the dragon’s beard,
And Askelon was his razor.
   —Percy: Reliques, III. iii. 15.

St. George (Le chevalier de), James Francis Edward Stuart, called “The Old (or elder) Pretender” (1688–1766).

St. Graal. (See Sangraal, p. 959.)

St. John, the clergyman in love with Jane Eyre, but she rejects his suit.—Charlotte Bronté: Jane Eyre (1847).

St. Leon, the hero of a novel of the same name by W. Goodwin (1799). St. Leon becomes possessed of the “elixir of life,” and of the “philosopher’s stone;” but this knowledge, instead of bringing him wealth and happiness, is the source of misery and endless misfortunes.

St. Leon is designed to prove that the happiness of mankind would not have been augmented by the gifts of immortal youth and inexhaustible riches.—Encyclopædia Britannica (article “Romance”).

Saint Maur, one of the attendants of sir Reginald Front de Bœuf (a follower of prince John).—Sir W. Scott: Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).

St. Nicholas, the patron saint of boys. He is said to have been bishop of Myra, in Lycia, and his death is placed in the year 326.

St. Nicholas is said to have supplied three maidens with marriage portions, by leaving at their windows bags of money… Another legend describes the saint as having restored to life three [? two] murdered children.—Yonge.

St. Patrick’s Purgatory, in an islet in lough Derg, Ireland. Here the saint made a cave, through which was an entrance into purgatory; and here those who liked to do so might forestall their purgatorial punishments while they were in the flesh. This was made the subject of a romance in the fourteenth century, and Calderon dramatized the subject in the seventeenth century.

Who has not heard of St. Patrick’s Purgatory… with its chapels and its toll-houses? Thither repair yearly crowds of pious pilgrims, who would wash away at once the accumulated sins of their lives.—Wright.

(This source of revenue was abolished by order of the pope, on St. Patrick’s Day, 1497.)

St. Peter’s Obelisk, a stone pyramid of enormous size, on the top of which is an urn containing the relics of Julius Cæsar.

St. Prieux, the amant of Julie, in Rousseau’s novel entitled Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse (1760).