[542] Longfellow’s “Golden Legend."
[543] Dec., 1854. An inscription in St. Peter’s commemorates its publication.
[544] Luke ii, 46. Such is Didron’s opinion.
[545] See [Fig. 132].
[546] Numerous references to these veils occur in the Fathers; e. g., Paulin., Natal. Felic., iii, 6: Aurea nunc niveis ornantur limina velis; Hieron., Epitaph. Nepot.: Vela semper in ostiis; Epiphan., ep. ad. Johan. Hierosol.: Inveni vela pendens in foribus. They were used also at the entrance of Pagan schools, “to conceal,” says Augustine, “the ignorance that took refuge within.”
[547] Prudentes quinque virgines olei vasa cum lampadibus deferentes.—Roma Sotteranea, tom. iii, p. 171.
[548] Plutarch, Quæst. Rom.
[549] Rock’s Hierurgia, p. 463.
[550] On an ivory diptych in the Educational Museum at Toronto, Ca., the raising of Lazarus appears exactly after this primitive type.
[551] Lord Lindsay, Christian Art, vol. i, p. 51.