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Symbols of Saints
SAINTS. SYMBOLS.
Agatha
Carrying her breasts in a dish.
Agathon
A book and crozier.
Agnes
A lamb at her side.
Anastasia
A palm branch.
Andrew
A saltire cross.
Anne
A book in her hand.
Anthony
A tau cross, with a bell at the
end, and a pig by his side.
Apollonia
A tooth and palm branch. She is applied to by those who
suffer from toothache.
Asaph
and Aydan A crozier.
Barbara
A book and palm branch.
Barnabas
A staff in one hand and an
open book in the other; or
a rake.
Bartholomew
A knife; ora processional cross.
Blaise
Iron combs, with which his body was torn to pieces.
Bridget
A crozier and book.
Catherine
An inverted sword, or large wheel.
Cecilia
Playing on a harp or organ.
Christopher
A gigantic figure carrying Christ
over a river.
Clare
A palm branch.
Clement
A papal crown, or an anchor.
He was drowned with an anchor
tied round his neck; also a pot.
Crispin
and Crispian
Two shoemakers at work.
Cuthbert
St. Osbald's head in his hand.
David
A leek, in commemoration of his victory over the Saxons.
Denys
Holding his mitred head in his hand.
Dorothy
Carrying a basket of fruit.
Edward the Confessor
Crowned with a nimbus, and holding a sceptre.
Elizabeth
St. John and the lamb at her feet.
Faith
A gridiron.
Felix
An anchor.
Flower
Her head in her hand, and a flower sprouting out of her neck.
Francis
A seraph inflicting the five wounds of Christ; or a lily on a
trampled globe.
Fyacre
Arrayed in a long robe, praying and holding his beads in one hand.
Gabriel
A flower-pot full of lilies between him and the Virgin.
George
Mounted on horseback, and transflxing a dragon.
Giles
A hind, with its head in the saint's lap.
Ignatius
The monogram I.H.S. on the breast or in the sky, circled with a
glory. Fairhold says
the mystery of the Trinity was thus revealed to him.
James the Greater
A pilgrim's staff; or a scallop shell.
James the Less
A fuller's pole. He was killed by
Simon the fuller.
John Baptist
A camel-hair garment, small rude cross,
and a lamb at his feet.
John Evangelist
A chalice, out of which a dragon or
serpent is issuing, and an open book; or a young man with an eagle in the background.
(Ezekiel vii. 1-10.)
Jerome
A blue hat, and studying a large folio volume,
Jude
With a club or lance.
Julian
Ferrying travellers across a stream.
Lawrence
A book and gridiron.
Louis
A king kneeling, with the arms of France
at his feet; a bishop blessing him, and a dove
descending on his head.
Loy
A crozier and hammer. He is the patron saint of smiths.
Lucy With a short staff in her hand, and the devil behind her; or with
eyes in a dish.
(See Lucy.)
Luke
Sitting at a reading-desk, beneath which appears an ox's head; or
pictorially engaged
upon a Bambino. (Ezekiel vii. 1-10.)
Margaret
Treading on a dragon, or piercing it with
the cross.
Mark
A man seated writing, with a lion couchant at his feet.
Martin
On horseback, dividing his cloak with a beggar behind him on foot.
Mary the Virgin
Carrying the child Jesus and a lily
is somewhere displayed.
Mary Magdalen
A box of ointment.
Matthew
With a halberd, with which Nadabar
killed him. As an evangelist, he holds a pen, with which he is writing on a scroll. The most
ancient symbol is a man's face. (Ezekiel vii. 1-10.)
Michael
In armour, with a cross, or else holding
scales, in which he is weighing souls.
Nicholas
A tub with naked infants in it. He is patron saint
of children.
Paul
A sword and a book. Dressed as a Roman.
Peter
Keys and a triple cross; or a fish; or a cock.
Philip
A pastoral staff, surmounted with a cross. He was hung on a tall pillar.
Roche
A wallet, and a dog with a loaf in its mouth sitting by. He shows a
boil in his thigh.
Sebastian
Bound to a tree, his arms tied behind
him, and his body transfixed with arrows.
Two archers stand by his side; sometimes presenting
a sheaf of arrows to the Lord.
Simon
A saw, because he was sawn asunder.
Stephen
A book and a stone in his hand.
Theodora
The devil holding her hand, and tempting her.
Theodore
Armed with a halberd in his hand, and with a sabre by his side.
Thomas
With a builder's rule, or a stone in his hand,
or holding the lance with which he was slain at
Meliapour.
Thomas of Canterbury
Kneeling, and a man behind him
striking at him with a sword.
Ursula
A book and arrows. She was shot through with
arrows by the Prince of the Huns.
(See Apostles, Evangelists etc.)
Symbols
of other sacred characters.
Abraham
An old man grasping a knife, ready to strike
his son Isaac, who is bound on an altar. An angel
arrests his hand, and a ram is caught in the thicket.
David
Kneeling, above is an angel with a sword.
Sometimes he is represented playing a harp.
Esau
With bow and arrows, going to meet Jacob.
Job
Sitting naked on the ground, with three
friends talking to him.
Joseph
Conversing with his brothers. Benjamin is
represented as a mere boy.
Judas Iscariot
With a money bag. In the last supper
he has knocked over the salt with his right elbow.
Judith
With Holofernes' head in one hand, and a
sabre in the other.
Noah
Is represented as looking out of the ark
window at a dove, which is flying to the ark,
olive branch in its beak.
King Saul
Is represented as arrayed in a rich tunic
and crowned. A harp is placed behind him.
Solomon
Is represented in royal robes, standing
under an arch.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Symbols of Saints from Infoplease:
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