[30] Cf. Introduction to The Fourteen of Consolation, p. 106.
[31] See note, p. 191.
[32] The German, Oelgötzen, means the wooden images of saints, which were painted with oil paints. It was transferred to any dull person, block-head, sometimes also to priests, who were anointed with oil at their consecration.
[33] Sinnlichkeit.
[34] St. Barbara, a legendary saint, whose day falls on December 4, was thought to protect against storm and fire. See above, p. 237. St. Sebastian, a martyr of the third century, whose day falls on January 20, was supposed to ward off the plague.
[35] Cf. The Fourteen of Consolation, above, p. 162.
[36] Page 194 f.
[37] I. e., by fear without love.
[38] The patron saint of music, of whose life and martyrdom little that is definite is known.
[39] Canonisations, giving a dead man the rank of a saint, who may be or shall be worshiped.