[7] Mr. Heins was born May 24, 1860, in Philadelphia, Penn., and died September 25, 1907, at Mohegan Lake, N. Y., where there is a church erected in his memory.
[8] Morningside Heights are so named because they front eastward.
[9] See description of corner-stone on [page 100].
[10] This is true in both the natural and the spiritual worlds. The oak grows more slowly than the pine; and the moral achievements which are worth the most and last the longest are the hardest to accomplish.
[11] The figures of the Virgin and the Child suggest the fact that the Chapel of St. Saviour occupies the position usually given to the Lady Chapel in European cathedrals.
[12] The diagonal cross of St. Andrew symbolizes not only the mode of his martyrdom but also humility. The legend is that when condemned to death, he asked to be nailed to a cross of a form different from the Saviour’s, as he was not worthy to die on the same kind.
[13] The usual symbol of St. Bartholomew, the knife with which he was flayed alive, and that of St. Matthew, the money bag, indicating his occupation before he was called, are not apparent.
[14] There is a tradition that St. Luke painted the first portrait of Christ. Pictures of the Madonna attributed to Luke are not uncommon in southern Italy. There is one such in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul at Citta Vecchia, Malta. See article entitled “Knights and Sights of Malta” in Harper’s Magazine for July, 1923, p. 159.
[15] ΙϹ and ΧϹ are the Greek letters iota sigma and chi sigma, (uncial form,) being the first and last letters in each case of the Greek words for Jesus Christ. The letters ΝΙΚΑ are read together and spell the Greek word which means “conquers.” Mrs. Jenner, in her “Christian Symbolism,” says that this inscription “is stamped upon every altar-bread of the Orthodox Eastern Church, and it occurs on every eikon of our Lord.”
[16] What is here informally called the central aisle is sometimes called by architects the Nave, to distinguish it from the parallel passages called aisles.