The calendar of the Anglican Church illustrated : with brief accounts of the saints who have churches dedicated in their names, or whose images are most frequently met with in England : the early christian and medieval symbols : and an index of emblems (1851)
Church of England · Oxford ; London : J.H. Parker · leaf 66
o o 56 THE CALENDAR OE THE ANGLICAN CHURCH. broken and a snake crawling out of it. In Le Clerc he is represented rolling in the midst of briars; gene- rally he is drawn as an abbot or monk, with a cro- zier, and a cup in his hand containing a snake, em- blematic of poison; … taken from S. Ethel- S. Benedict,, from ttte MS. Benedictional of S. Ethelwold, c. A 980. wold’s Benediction- al, he is in the dress of his order, and holds a crown in his left hand, and a book in his right. The tonsure is very plainly represented, March 25. Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, -o o-
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