Curiosities of Christian History Prior to the Reformation

by James Paterson

INDEX.

Abbess of Arles, deathbed, [221].
Abbey, officials of, [218].
Abbots, power over monastery, [217];
lecturing his monks, [223];
war of two, [224];
harassed with care, [306].
Abdication of Emperor, [330];
of Pope, [363];
of Sultan, [372].
Actor, the martyr, [148].
Adriano, painter, [496].
Agbarus writing to Christ, [12].
Agnus Dei, [75].
Agobard of Lyons, [340].
Aidan, St., of Lindisfarne, [272];
death of, [276].
Aix-la-Chapelle cathedral, [455].
Alaric respects churches, [112].
Alban, St., martyr, [149];
cathedral, [467], [469].
Albigenses, [426].
Alfred, King, [341], [343].
All Saints’ Day, [80].
Altar in churches, [441].
Amalfi cathedral, [451].
Ambrose, St., [194];
asleep at Mass, [195];
sayings of, [196];
on relics, [196].
Amiens cathedral, [454].
Ammerghau plays, [82].
Andrew, St., [28];
patron saint, [29];
head of, purchased by Pope, [191].
Angel, monk wanting to be, [221].
Angelico, painter, [479].
Anschar, apostle to the North, [249].
Anselm, Archbishop, [351].
Antioch church, [51].
Antony, St., temptations of, [161];
visits Paul, [197].
Antony of Padua, [257];
psalm-book stolen, [308];
preaching to the fishes, [406].
Antwerp cathedral, [456].
Ape of bishop painting, [475].
Apocryphal gospels, [9], [20].
Apostles, deaths and marriages of, [23].
Apostolic Church, [64].
Aquinas, Thomas, [137].
Archbishop, choosing, [335];
John the Almsgiver, [337];
the ugliest, [345];
Anselm, [351];
Turstin, [353].
Architecture, church, [438].
Aretino, painter, [479].
Arsenius, monk, [266].
Ass, feast of the, [81].
Athos, Mount, its monasteries, [312].
Attila, impressed by the Pope, [113].
Augustine, St., of Hippo, vision of, [203];
faith in dreams, [203];
on miracles, [207].
Augustine in England, [245].
Auricular confession, [67].
Auto-da-fè, [380].
Avignon, Popes at, [366].
Barbara, martyr, [147].
Barnabas, St., [27].
Barnadatus, an austere hermit, [168].
Bartholomew, St., [25].
Bartholomew of Farne, hermit, [175].
Basle, nuns of, [233].
Bec monastery, [289].
Becerra, sculptor, [492].
Becket, St. Thomas, pilgrims to, [191];
murder of, [355].

Bede, Venerable, on Farne hermits, [173], [275];
deathbed, [278].
Bega, St., [397].
Bells in church, [76], [501].
Benedict, St., at Monte Cassino, [209], [268];
death of, [269].
Benedict of Aniane, [212].
Bernard, St., monks of, [285].
Bernard, St., begging for robber’s life, [208];
against Abelard, [295];
sister of, [299];
second crusade, [420].
Bethlehem church, [460].
Bible, Septuagint, [21];
English, [22];
telling fortunes by, [93], [248].
Birds and St. Francis, [402], [404];
and St. Guthlac, [170].
Bishops, early, [70];
first degraded, [329];
building workhouse, [330];
seeking a site, [331];
of fifth century, [332];
putting down soothsayers, [333];
releasing prisoners, [334];
giving a horse to, [338];
of Hexham, [339];
at head of troops, [343];
jokes of, [346];
pompous, [347];
at early Mass, [351];
aerial music at death of, [362];
inviting old master, [372];
ape of, painter, [475].
Black death, [90], [124].
Blandina, martyr, [144].
Bonaventura, St., life of Christ, [7];
honouring the rich, [228].
Bonfires of gaudy dresses, [262], [264].
Boniface, St., missionary, [116].
Boy bishop, feast of, [81].
Bristol cathedral, [471].
Bronzes for gates of Paradise, [480].
Bruce, Robert, a crusader, [432].
Buffalmacco, painter, [475], [477].
Buffoons, feast of the, [81].
Burial of monks, [227].
Bury St. Edmunds monastery, [304], [306], [307].
Cædmon, monk poet, [222].
Cano, painter, [500].
Canterbury, monks of, [189];
pilgrims to, [192];
cathedral, [463].
Canute, visiting Rome, [346];
rebuking the sea, [346].
Capernaum, [54], [62].
Cardinals, origin of, [328].
Carileff, St., the hermit, [169].
Carlisle cathedral, [469].
Carthusians, [296], [300].
Cassino, Monte, monastery, [209].
Cassiodorus, his library, [236].
Cathedrals, spires and dimensions, [440];
Gothic, [441];
St. Peter’s, [442];
Genoa, [444];
Turin, [444];
Milan, [445];
Florence, [446];
Pisa, [446];
San Gennaro, [447];
Santiago, [448];
Leon, [449];
Seville, [450];
Toledo, [450];
Cordova, [451];
Amalfi, [451];
Oviedo, [452];
Paris, Notre Dame, [453];
Marseilles, [454];
Chartres, [454];
Amiens, [454];
Rheims, [455];
Aix-la-Chapelle, [455];
Treves, [456];
Antwerp, [456];
Cologne, [457];
St. Petersburg, [457];
Vienna, [458];
St. Paul’s, [461];
Canterbury, [463];
York, [463];
Durham, [465];
Winchester, [466];
Oxford, [466];
Peterborough, [467];
Salisbury, [468];
Wells, [468];
English and Welsh, [469], [470].
Catherine of Siena, [314].
Cecilia, St., martyr, [144].
Chad, St., [275].
Chanting of monks, [225];
of Charles V. as monk, [322].
Charlemagne, doubts as to monks, [214];
leaving his court to be monk, [215];
monk at his court, [215].
Charles V., Emperor, as monk, [318];
his dress, [319];
apartments, [319];
detestation of heretics, [320].
Chartres cathedral, [454].
Cheese, painter fed on, [461].
Chichester cathedral, [470].
Children’s crusade, [428].
Chimes on bells, [502].
Christian, name of, [94];
viewed by Pagans, [97];
oppose wild beasts, [97].
Christmas Day, [79].
Christ in Egypt, [7];
as a boy, [9];
portraits of, [11], [12];
false, [21];
sentence on, [44];
blood of, [188];
painted by Micael, [190].
Christina and the millstone, [389].
Christopher, St., [389].
Chrysostom, St., as hermit, [150];
as preacher, [201];
on monkery, [201];
on speaking in church, [201].
Church, building age, [84];
spires of, [440];
dimensions, [440];
altars in, [441];
bells, [501];
chimes, [502];
music, [503].

Church, apostolic, [64];
early, [64];
ancient buildings, [72];
service, [75];
organs and bells, [76];
sexes in, [77];
praying for dead, [77];
festivals, [80].
Cimabue, painter, [475].
Cinderella of the convent, [230].
Cistercians, [297], [300].
Clara, St., and the Saracens, [310].
Claudius of Turin, [133].
Clergy, dress, [69];
foppish, [69];
unity of, [326].
Clovis, conversion of, [334].
Cluny, monks of, [284].
Coldingham, nuns of, [283].
Cologne, archbishop, [345];
cathedral, [457].
Columba, St., of Iona, [269], [270].
Columban, monk, [210], [271].
Columbus, crusader, [435].
Community of goods, [65].
Compostella and St. James, [35], [36], [448].
Conecte, Thomas, the monk, [263].
Conrad, St., [399].
Constantine, [99];
standard of cross, [100];
dream, [100];
preaching, [101];
last illness, [102].
Constantinople, French pillaging, [425];
cathedrals, [458].
Constantius testing Christians, [98].
Convent, life in a, [217].
Coptic church, [439].
Cordova cathedral, [451].
Correggio, painter, [491].
Cosmas, the monk tutor, [131].
Council, of Nice, [102];
owl attending, [370].
Creeds, monks deciding on, [234].
Cross, forms of, [15];
discovery of, [15];
nails of, [16];
legend of, [17];
dividing into parts, [183].
Crown of thorns pawned, [19].
Croyland, St. Guthlac at, [169], [170];
monks of, [283];
burning of abbey, [283], [290];
Turketul as abbot, [286].
Crucifix during plague, [190];
clumsy, [482].
Crucifixion, thieves at, [16].
Crusaders, beginnings of, [408];
Peter the hermit on, [411];
and the earth of Palestine, [413];
how they treated spies, [414];
and the holy lance, [415];
testing a doubtful point, [417];
first sight of Jerusalem, [417];
capturing Jerusalem, [419];
first visit to holy places, [419];
Bernard’s second crusade, [420];
French Queen at, [421];
bringing home relics, [422];
Fulk of Neuilly, [424];
death of Richard I., [424];
pillaging Constantinople, [425];
attacking heretics, [425];
Albigenses, [427];
children’s, [428];
more preaching for, [428];
paying money for, [429];
master of Hungary, [430];
deathbed of Louis of France, [431];
entertained, [431];
dying king as, [432];
Knights Templars, [433];
faith in Providence, [434];
Columbus as, [435];
numbers of, [436];
Greek Church and pilgrims, [437].
Customs, early church, [65].
Cuthbert, St., [275], [278];
his body carried, [277];
his shrine at Durham, [465].
Cyprian, St., and Justina, martyrs, [150].
Cyril, St., of Alexandria, [204].
Damascus and rivers, [54];
John of, [131], [132].
Damiani, Peter, [85].
Dancing mania, [91].
Deaconess, [72].
Dead, prayers for, [77].
Dead Sea, measurements, [53].
Deathbed of Constantine, [102];
of abbess, [221], [274];
of monk, [227];
of Bede, [278];
of abbot, [302].
Decretals, false, [117].
Derwentwater, monk at, [171].
Devil and St. Christopher, [391];
showing a book, [392];
and Theophilus, [393].
Didymus and Theodora, martyrs, [149].
Divine right, king by, [352].
Divining-rod, [387].
Doctors of the Middle Ages, [302].
Dominic, St., [86];
preaching, [253].
Dominico, painter, [498].
Donato, sculptor, [478].
Dorotheus, architect to hermits, [166].
Douglas, the, as crusader, [432].
Dream, of Constantine, [100];
St. Augustine’s faith in, [203].
Dress of clergy, [69], [92].
Dunstan, St., relics, [189];
as monk, [285].
Durham cathedral, [465].

Easter Day, [79].
Edward the Confessor and St. John, [33].
Egypt, Holy Family in, [5].
Einsiedeln monastery, [281].
Eleanor, Queen, as crusader, [421].
Eligius, bishop, [339].
Elizabeth of Hungary, [310].
Ely monks capturing relics, [182];
cathedral, [469].
Emblems of Christians, [66].
Emperor as monk, [320];
abdication of, [330];
excommunication of, [359];
retaliating on Pope, [360];
as crusader, [423].
Empire, Roman, [140], [141].
Empress begging for relics, [185].
England, St. Augustine landing in, [245], [246].
Ethelbert receiving St. Augustine, [246].
Ethelwald, hermit of Farne, [172].
Eton montem, [82].
Exeter cathedral, [469].
Extortioners of Pope, [361].
Farne, hermits of, [172], [175];
Aidan at, [272];
Cuthbert at, [275], [276].
Fathers, the, [194];
Origen, [194];
Ambrose, [195], [196];
Jerome, [197];
Chrysostom, [200];
Augustine, [202];
Cyril, [204];
notions of, [205].
Felicitas, martyr, [144].
Festivals in church, [80], [83].
Fishes, St. Antony preaching to, [406].

Flagellants, [91].
Florence cathedral, [446].
Fly killed by monk, [232].
Foppish clergy, [69];
Pope, [374].
Fortunes, telling by Bible, [93];
Eligius on, [248].
Foundlings in Paris, [260].
France receiving crown of thorns, [186].
Francia, painter, [484].
Francis, St., of Assisi, [254];
dexterity, [255];
stigmata, [255];
biographer of, [256];
and the birds, [403];
and the wolf, [404].
Friars and monks, [219];
the order of, [230];
wearing shoes, [257];
startling the judges, [261];
burning ornaments, [262], [264].
Frogs rebuked by monk, [232].
Fructuosus and the doe, [397].
Fulk of Neuilly, [252], [424].
Fuller on relics, [183];
on monks, [214], [219].
Galilee, sea of, [53], [54];
population, [56].
Gall, St., monks of, [274].
Geismar, oak of, [116].
Genes, St., martyr, [148].
Genesius, martyr, [148].
Geneviève, St., patron saint, [179].
Genoa cathedral, [444].
Gervasius, relics of, [196].
Ghiberti, sculptor, [480].
Gibbon on monks, [207].
Glasgow, St. Mungo at, [268].
Glastonbury, monks of, [189];
chanting, [225].
Gloucester cathedral, [470].
Gnat stinging hermit, [165].
Godiva, lady, [399].
Gold, painter at sight of, [482].
Gothic cathedrals, [440].
Goths sacking Rome, [113].
Greek Church, [400], [437].
Greek philosophers driven out, [115];
Church and Latin, [119].
Gregorian chant, dispute about, [225].
Gregory the Great sending missionaries to England, [246];
a hard case put, [336];
supper of, [395];
releasing Trajan, [396].
Gregory, St., on relics, [185].
Gregory VII., [137].
Grosso, sculptor, [482].
Guizot on power of Popes, [138].
Guthlac, St., the hermit, [169].
Hallelujah victory, [391].
Hameln, piper of, [399].
Handel, [511].
Hatto, Bishop, and the rats, [398].
Heloïse, nun, [294].
Herbert, St., monk of Derwentwater, [171].
Hereford cathedral, [471].
Heretic refuted, [103];
Huss as, [377];
pleasure of burning, [378];
of Middle Ages, [382];
crusaders against, [425].
Hermits, outbreak of zeal, [160];
Antony, [161];
visit to another, [162];
bunch of grapes to, [162];
courtesies of, [162];
trying to quarrel, [163];
political economy of, [163];
St. Pambo, [164];
olive tree of, [164];
stung by gnat, [165];
Martin of Tours, [165];
Dorotheus, [166];
St. Pœmen, [167];
St. Moyses, [167];
Barnadatus, [168];
St. Carileff, [169];
Saxon hermits, [169];
St. Guthlac, [170];
Simeon Stylites, [171];
St. Herbert, [171];
Ethelwald, [172];
Queen consulting, [174];
a conscientious, [174];
St. Bartholomew of Farne, [175];
French King sending for, [176];
consecration of, [177];
invited by the Pope, [229];
made Pope, [363].
Hermon, Mount, [57].
Herod and Holy Family, [5], [46].
Henry II., King, at Becket’s tomb, [355].
Hervé, little blind, [395].
Hilda, St., deathbed, [274].
Hildebrand, Pope, [137].
Hillel, relationship, [49].
History, church, how divided, [63].
Holidays in Church, [80].
Holy Family in Egypt, [5], [6].
Holy Grail, [394].
Holy water, [442].
Host, the, [75].
Huss, martyr, [152];
on indulgences, [371];
burnt as heretic, [377].
Hymns, church, [506].
Iconoclasts, [129], [130], [136].
Ignatius Loyola, [259].
Illuminating by monks, [241].
Image, demolishing, [112], [121];
worship, [129], [136];
converting, [134];
in churches, [472].
Incense in churches, [442].
Indulgences, sale of, [371].
Innocents, massacre of, [4].
Inquisition, [377];
assassination of inquisitor, [380];
auto-da-fè, [380].
Interdict, papal, [356].
Irene, Empress, [135].
Isabella, Queen, [381].
Isidore forging decretals, [118].
James, intercisus, martyr, [151].
James, St., [29], [34].
Jerome, St., life of Paul, [197];
the lion and ass, [198];
deathbed of, [199];
epistles of, [199].
Jerusalem, sieges, [50];
situation, [60];
crusaders at, [417];
churches of, [459].
Jews, sacred vessels, [114];
and Christians, [119], [128];
incited by Julian, [120];
golden age of, [121];
and Pope, [122];
of York, [122];
crucifying boys, [123], [125];
stealing Host, [125];
banquets of, [126];
in Spain, [126];
physicians, [127];
conversion of, [128];
the wandering, [392].
Joan of Arc, [153], [159].
Joan, Pope, [398].
Joanna made a nun, [308].
Jocelyn of Edmondsbury, [304], [307].
John, St., [30], [33].
John Baptist, St., [45].
John, King of England, [354].
John of Damascus, [131], [132].
John of Salisbury, [358].
John of Peckham, [362].
John the Almsgiver, [337].
Johnson, Dr., on monks, [207].
Jordan, measurements of, [53], [54].
Juanes, painter of Virgin, [3].
Jubilee year, [87].
Judas Iscariot, [41].
Julian the Apostate, [104].
Justinian and Theodora, [115].
Kempis, Thomas à, [315].
King, dying, sends for hermit, [176].
La Trappe monks, [312].
Lance, the holy, [415].
Lauder, St. Cuthbert, [275].
Legate of Pope visiting monastery, [307].
Legends, sacred, [385];
Thundering legion, [387];
Theban legion, [387];
divining-rod, [387];
St. George and dragon, [388];
Christina, [389];
Christopher, [389];
Hallelujah victory, [391];
Merlin’s prophecies, [391];
devil showing a book, [392];
Wandering Jew, [392];
St. Sabas, [393];
Theophilus’s compact, [393];
Holy Grail, [394];
Seven Sleepers, [394];
little blind Hervé, [395];
supper of St. Gregory, [395];
Gregory releasing Trajan, [396];
St. Bega, [397];
Fructuosus, [397];
Pope Joan, [398];
Bishop Hatto, [398];
St. Conrad, [399];
Piper of Hameln, [399];
Lady Godiva, [399];
sacred fire, [400];
Prester John, [401];
Loretto, [401];
St. Francis and the birds, [403];
St. Antony and the fishes, [406];
St. Roch, [407].
Legion, Thundering, [387];
Theban, [387].
Leo the Isaurian, [129].
Leo X., Pope, [375].
Leon cathedral, [449].
Leonardo da Vinci, [485].
Lepers tended by St. Francis, [254].
Lilies of the field, [58].
Lincoln cathedral, [470].
Lindisfarne, saints of, [272].
Lion and St. Jerome, [198];
and Saracen king, [352];
and St. Sabas, [393].
Liturgy, ancient, [73], [74].
Lives of the saints, [237].
Locusts warded off by monks, [244].
Loretto and holy cottage, [401].
Louis, St., of France, crown of thorns, [186];
a monk, [309];
deathbed of, [430].
Louis VII., [421].
Luke, St., [25].
Lull, Raimund, and Saracens, [258].
Luther revisiting old convent, [236];
on music, [509].
Lyons, martyrs of, [144].
Macarius, hermit, [162], [165].
Mahomet and Christianity, [115].
Manuscripts of monks, [238];
of nuns, [240].
Margaret of Scotland, [348].
Mark, St., [24].
Marseilles church, [453].
Martha, St., [48].
Martin of Tours, [112], [164].
Martyrs, early, [142];
Valeria, [142];
Thecla, [143];
Polycarp, [143];
Felicitas, [144];
of Lyons, [144];
Cecilia, [145];
Ursula, [146];
Perpetua, [146];
Barbara, [147];
Potamiana, [147];
St. Genes, [148];
Genesius, [149];
St. Alban, [149];
Didymus, [149];
Cyprian, [150];
Chrysostom, [150];
James, intercisus, [151];
Stephen, [151];
for images, [151], [177];
Huss, [152];
Joan of Arc, [153].
Mary Magdalene, [47].
Mary (Virgin), heathen knowledge of, [1];
portraits, [3];
marriage, [3];
in Egypt, [4];
assumption, [7];
death, [7].
Mass, [74].
Master of Hungary, [430].
Matilda of Flanders consulting hermit, [174].
Matthew, St., [24].
Medard, St., [83].
Meinrad, monk, [281].
Merlin’s prophecies, [391].
Merom, Waters of, [55].
Methodius in Moravia, [247].
Micael painting a crucifix, [190].
Michael Angelo, [494].
Milan cathedral, [445].
Millennium in early times, [64], [84].
Miracles of St. Bernard, [298].
Miserere at Valencia, [452];
in Sistine Chapel, [508].
Missal painting of monks, [241].
Missionary of fourth century, [243];
mediæval, [261].
Model for painter, [483].
Moleme, Robert of, [226].
Monastery, life in, [216], [218];
how a site acquired, [235];
scriptorium, [237];
of Einsiedeln, [281];
Croyland, [283];
Cluny, [284];
of St. Bernard, [285];
fire at Croyland, [286], [290];
of Bec, [289];
St. Evroult, [292];
of Vallombrosa, [293];
Carthusians, [296];
Cistercians, [297];
Edmundsbury, [304];
rebuilding altar, [305];
of Mount Athos, [312];
Certosa, [313];
Yuste and Charles V., [318];
pictures in, [473].
Monks, Chrysostom on, [201];
origin of, [206];
Gibbon on, [207];
Dr. Johnson on, [207];
motives for becoming, [208];
weak side of, [208];
reformed by St. Benedict, [209];
Columban, [210];
settling in forest, [211];
denouncing king’s ferocity, [211];
making them work, [212];
Benedict of Aniane, [212];
monk at court writing home, [213];
drinking wine in England, [214];
Charlemagne’s doubts as to, [214];
Duke William, [215];
going to live at court, [215];
reasons for so many, [216];
life of, [216];
routine of English, [218];
officials in monastery, [218];
and friars, [219];
brawls with friars, [220];
orders of, [220];
wanting to be angels, [221];
abbess of Arles, deathbed, [221];
Cædmon, monk poet, [223];
sleeping too long, [223];
lecturing against idleness, [223];
war of two abbots, [224];
chanting, [225];
pillaging, [225];
living frugally, [226];
burial of, [227];
sick, [227];
honouring the rich, [228];
good lessons of, [229];
invited by Pope, [229];
at Sempringham, [231];
compunctions of, [232];
killing a fly, [232];
stealing food, [234];
deciding on creeds, [234];
interceding for prisoners, [235];
acquiring a site, [235];
Luther at grave of, [236];
and polite letters, [236];
of St. Gall, [237];
manuscripts of, [238];
missal painting, [239];
illuminating, [241];
proselytising, [243];
warding off locusts, [244];
Severinus, [244];
Fulk of Neuilly, [252];
Dominic, [253];
Francis, [254];
Thomas Conecte, [263];
Arsenius, [266];
Ninian, [267];
Mungo, [267];
Columba, [269];
Columban, [271];
Aidan, [272];
Chad, [273];
Bede, [275], [278];
Cuthbert, [275];
Duke William, [280];
Meinrad, [282];
of Croyland, [283], [290];

Dunstan, [285];
of St. Bernard, [285];
Turketul, [286];
Nilus, [287];
of Bec, [289];
Abelard, [295];
Cluny, [295], [300];
St. Bernard, [297], [299];
Peter the Venerable, [300];
Edmundsbury, [304], [307];
stealing a psalm-book, [308];
for a king, [309];
the starved, [311];
Athos, [312];
of La Trappe, [312];
Lucca, [314];
Peter of Alcantara, [316];
the Emperor Charles V. as, [318];
on the crusades, [408];
painters, [473];
feeding the painter, [481];
bargaining for pictures, [498];
musicians, [506].
Monsignori, painter, [483].
Moravia, missionaries in, [247].
More, Sir T., on relics, [183].
Moyses, St., water-carrier to hermits, [167].
Mungo, Scottish saint, [267].
Murillo, painter, [499].
Music of monks, [238], [241];
church, [503].
Names, Christian, [66].
Naples, chapel at, [447].
Nazareth, [61].
Neander on monks, [209].
Neot, the Cornish saint, [250].
Nero’s persecution, [96].
Nice, council of, [102].
Nicholas Peregrinus, [507].
Nicholas V., Pope, [372].
Nicolas, monk, starved, [311].
Nicolas, Pope, [118].
Nilus, monk, [287], [289].
Ninian, Scottish saint, [267].
Norbert on clerical vices, [252].
Norwich cathedral, [469].
Notre Dame, Paris, [453].
Nuns at Sempringham, [231];
of Basle, wars of, [233];
embroidery of, [240];
converting the Iberians, [243];
of Coldingham, [283];
St. Catherine of Siena, [314];
marrying a king, [350];
criticising their artist, [477].
Olive tree of hermit, [164].
Olives, Mount of, [60].
Omar, mosque of, [459].
Oratorios, [509].
Organs in church, [76], [504].
Origen, one of the Fathers, [194].
Orleans, siege, and Joan of Arc, [156].
Otto, Bishop in Pomerania, [251].
Oviedo cathedral, [452].
Owl at church council, [370].
Oxford cathedral, [466].
Pagans, difficulties with, [96], [118];
silenced, [103];
temples demolished, [109].
Painters, sacred, [472];
Cimabue, [475];
Buffalmacco, [475], [477];
Donato, [478];
Aretino, [479];
Angelico, [479];
Ghiberti, [480];
Uccello, [481];
Grosso, [482];
Pinturicchio, [482];
Monsignori, [483];
Francia, [484];
Leonardo da Vinci, [485];
Raphael, [487];
Torrigiano, [490];
Correggio, [491];
Becerra, [492];
Michael Angelo, [492];
Vargas, [495];
Titian, [495];
Adriano, [496];
Rubens, [497];
Dominico, [498];
Velasquez, [498];
Murillo, [499];
Cano, [500];
Thornhill, [501].
Palestine explorations, [52];
climate, [57];
fruits, flowers, birds, [58], [60];
pilgrimages to, [409].
Palm tree and Holy Family, [5].
Pambo, St., the hermit, [164].
Paradise, sculptures fit for, [480].
Paris, patron saint, [179];
cathedral, [453].

Passion plays, [82].
Pastoral staff, [71].
Patrick, St., sermon, [244].
Patron saints, [179].
Paul, St., [37], [40].
Paul Diaconus writing home, [213].
Paul, the hermit, [162];
life by St. Jerome, [197];
visited by Antony, [197], [198].
Penmanship of monks, [239].
Perpetua, martyr, [146].
Perspective of old painters, [481].
Peter of Alcantara, [316].
Peter, St., [37], [39].
Peter the Hermit, [411].
Peter the Venerable, [300].
Peterborough cathedral, [467].
Petersburg cathedral, [457].
Pharisaism, [50].
Philip, St., [28].
Philip the Fair and Pope, [364].
Pilate, Pontius, [45].
Pilgrims to Compostella, [35];
to Walsingham, [191];
in Switzerland, [192];
to Canterbury, [192];
to Palestine, [409];
ways of pilgrims, [410];
Peter the Hermit, [411];
Greek Church, [437].
Pillar monks, [171].
Pinturicchio, painter, [482].
Pisa cathedral, [446].
Plague, crucifix during, [190].
Plays, miracle and passion, [82].
Pliny on Christians, [97].
Pœmen, the hermit, [167].
Polycarp, martyr, [143].
Pope defending Rome, [117];
and Jews, [122];
ambitious, [137], [138];
supremacy of, [326];
election of, [328];
and the pestilence, [335];
kissing the foot, [340];
two scapegrace, [344];
interdict of, [357];
candid friend of, [358];
extortioners of, [361];
hermit made, [363];
Philip the Fair and, [364];
Boniface VIII., [365];
the rival, [367], [368];
deposed, [370];
a fop, [374];
Leo X., [375];
Sixtus V., [376];
lawyer as, [383];
Joan, [398];
Urban II. on Crusades, [413].
Potamiana, martyr, [147].
Praising day and night, [78].
Preachers, ancient, [68].
Prester John, [401].
Prisoners monk interceding for, [235].
Prodigies, the sages on, [43].
Psalm-book stolen by monk, [308].
Purcell, [510].
Pyx, the, [75].
Queen visiting hermit, [169], [174].
Rain, prayer for, [89].
Raphael, painter, [487].
Raven of the monks, [281].
Relics, reverence for, [180];
secrecy in removing, [181];
capturing, [181];
stealing, [182];
defending, [183];
forgery of, [183];
flattering worshipper of, [184];
empress begging for, [185];
deciding on genuine, [185];
crown of thorns, [186];
received in France, [187];
discovery of St. Stephen’s, [188];
St. Dunstan’s, [189];
Huss on, [190];
St. Andrew’s head, [191];
St. Gervasius, [196].
See also “[Cathedrals].”
Rheims cathedral, [455].
Richard I., story of an ingrate, [402];
death of, [424].
Rienzi, tribune, [139].
Riots, religious, [68].
Ritualism, rise of, [74].
Rob Roy on the Jordan, [55].
Roch, St., [407].
Roman Empire, last hours, [140];
Holy Roman Empire, [141].
Rome sacked by Goths, [112];
by Huns, [112];
by Vandals, [114];
Lombards at, [117];
St. Peter’s, [442];
Sistine Chapel, [443].
Rosary, festival, [83].
Rose, festival of, [83].
Round towers, [85].
Rubens, painter, [497].
Russia, conversion of, [251].
Sabas and the lion, [393].
Sacro monte, [473].
St. Bernard, Great, pilgrims at, [192].
St. Gall monastery, [224], [237], [248].
St. Paul’s cathedral, [464].
St. Peter’s, Rome, [442].
Saints, miracles of, [178];
patron, [179];
lives of, [237].
Salisbury cathedral, [468].

Sampson of Edmundsbury, [303], [306], [307].
Sanhedrim, [49].
Santiago cathedral, [35], [448].
Saracens converted by Raimund Lull, [258];
a king of, [352].
Sarto, Andrea del, [473], [499].
Savonarola, [264].
Schetzelo, conscientious hermit, [174].
Schoolmen, the, [302].
Scotsman travelling to Rome, [303].
Sempringham, nuns of, [231].
Septuagint, [20].
Serapis, temple of, [110].
Seven, number, [87].
Seville cathedral, [450].
Shoes of friars, [257].
Sibyl prophecy of Christ, [1].
Simeon, St., [27].
Simeon Stylites, [171].
Simeon’s great age, [2].
Sin-eaters at funerals, [78].
Singing in church, [504].
Sistine Chapel, Rome, [443].
Sixtus V., Pope, [376].
Slavery and early Christians, [95].
Sleepers, the Seven, [394].
Soldier piercing Christ, [17].
Spanish Jews, [126];
image worship, [136];
Inquisition, [379];
auto-da-fè, [380];
miraculous images, [474].
Stations of cross, [18].
Stealing of relics, [182];
of monk’s food, [234].
Stephen, martyr for images, [151].
Stephen, St., first martyr, relics, [188].
Strasburg cathedral, [454].
Sultan and the lion, [352].
Sunday, Palm, [80].
Superstitions, Eligius denouncing, [248].
Sweating sickness, [91].
Swiss horns, [502].
Swithin, St., [341].
Symmachus defending Pagans, [108].
Telemachus and wild beasts, [98].
Templars, Knight, [433].
Temple, Jews rebuilding, [120].
Theban legion, [387].
Thecla, St., martyr, [143].
Theodora, empress, [135].
Theodore’s image of Christ, [111].
Theodosius and the Pagans, [109], [111].
Theological disputes, [105].
Theophilus and the devil, [393].
Theresa, St., and her visions, [317].
Thomas, St., [26].
Thornhill, painter, [501].
Thorns, crown of, [19], [186].
Thundering legion, [387].
Tiberias, sea of, [53], [54].
Timothy, St., [27].
Titian, [495].
Titus, St., [28].
Toledo cathedral, [450].
Torquemada and Jews, [126];
as inquisitor, [379].
Torrigiano, sculptor, [490].
Trading, monks on, [229].
Treves cathedral, [456].
Trinitarian controversy, [106];
sermon on, [108].
Trisagion riots, [68].
Truce of God, [86].
Turin cathedral, [444].
Turketul at Croyland, [286].
Turstin, archbishop, [353].
Uccello, painter, [481].
Ugliest of men archbishop, [345].
Ursula, St., martyr, [146].
Valencia, Miserere at, [452].
Valeria, martyr, [142].
Vandals sacking Rome, [114].
Vargas, painter, [495].
Velasquez, painter, [498].
Veronica, St., [48].
Vienna cathedral, [458].
Villani, account of jubilee, [87].
Vincent de Paul, [260].
Virgin, portraits of, [3];
worship of [85];
holy cottage, [401].
Viviers monastery, [236].
Waldenses, [382].
Walsingham, pilgrims to, [191].
Wells cathedral, [468].
Welsh cathedrals, [471].
Whitby abbey, Cædmon at, [222];
St. Hilda at, [274].

Wicliff, the reformer, 365.
Wild-beast shows, [97].
William, Duke, becomes monk, [215], [280].
William the Conqueror’s death, [348].
Winchester cathedral, [466].
Worcester cathedral, [471].
Working man, [50].
Wulfstan of Worcester, [293].
Ximenes, cardinal, [381].
York Minster, [463].
Yuste monastery and Charles V., [318].
Zacharias, [44].

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