(3) The saints in joyful procession, each with his sheaf of wheat.

(4) The virgins, crowned with vine-tendrils and ears of wheat, that follow the Lamb.

(5) The five prudent virgins, that with their lighted lamps go in to the feast of the Bridegroom.

(6) The banquet of the blessed.


Between the arches of this order are the six hieroglyphs following, with their inscriptions above, upon tablets.

(1) A burning phœnix, with the inscription, Instauratio generis humani.

(2) Two cornucopias crossed, with a cross in their midst. The cornucopias are full of vine-tendrils and ears of wheat. The inscription says, Felicitas humani generis.

(3) A kingfisher brooding over her young in a nest of vine-tendrils and blades of wheat, with the inscription, Tranquillitas immutabilis. This signifies the calm state of the blessed, whereof a token is the nest of the kingfisher, which bird, when it crosses the water, causes all storms to cease.

(4) A car with flames, rising to heaven, with the inscription, Sic itur ad astra. Signifying that this divinest Sacrament is the harbinger of those that travel heavenward, in that Elijah was so swept away, after God had sent him bread by the angel and the raven.