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Brewer's: St. Adrian
represented, in Christian art, with an anvil, and a sword or axe close by it. He had his limbs cut off on a smith's anvil, and was afterwards beheaded. St. Adrian is the patron saint of…Brewer's: St. Agatha
Represented in Christian art with a pair of shears, and holding in her hand a salver, on which her breasts are placed. The reference is to her martyrdom, when her breasts were cut off by a…Brewer's: Alban, St.
St. Alban, like St. Denis is represented as carrying his head between his hands. His attributes are a sword and a crown. St. Aphrodisius, St. Aventine, St. Desiderius. St. Chrysolius, St…Brewer's: St. Cecilia
born of noble Roman parents, and fostered from her cradle in the Christian faith, married Valirlan. One day she told him that an angel, “whether she was awake or asleep, was ever beside…Brewer's: St. Distaff
(See Distaff.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. ElmoSt. Cuthbert's Duck A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: St. Elmo
called by the French St. Elme. The electric light seen playing about the masts of ships in stormy weather. (See Castor And Pollux.) And sudden breaking on their raptured sight, Appeared…Brewer's: St. Francis
(See Francis.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. George's CrossSt. Elmo A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: St. Leon
became possessed of the elixir of life, and the power of transmuting the baser metals into gold, but these acquisitions only brought him increased misery. (WilliamGoodwin: St Leon.)…Brewer's: St. Lundi
(La). St. Monday. Monday spent by workmen in idleness. One of the rules enjoined by the Sheffield unionists was that no work should be permitted to be done on a Monday by any of their…Brewer's: St. Monday
A holiday observed by journeyman shoemakers and other inferior mechanics, and well-to-do merchants. In the Journal of the Folk-lore Society, vol. i. p. 245, we read that, “While Cromwell's…Trending
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