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Page 138
... Beverley in commemoration of the great victory which the English arms had achieved , and we trow left the minster considerably richer for his visit and offerings . The custom was for pilgrims to travel to their destined shrines in ...
... Beverley in commemoration of the great victory which the English arms had achieved , and we trow left the minster considerably richer for his visit and offerings . The custom was for pilgrims to travel to their destined shrines in ...
Page 174
... Minster we find the fruit form of the same type - of blackberry appearance , with a deep calyx - but developed into a whole tree of clusters . Other carvings are similar . In one in Beverley Minster the dark devourers are shown as two ...
... Minster we find the fruit form of the same type - of blackberry appearance , with a deep calyx - but developed into a whole tree of clusters . Other carvings are similar . In one in Beverley Minster the dark devourers are shown as two ...
Page 187
... Beverley Minster . The beaver when met in church work is generally found in a curled up and apparently sleeping attitude . But the meaning of the position is that the animal is biting off the castoreum bags , which it was fabled to do ...
... Beverley Minster . The beaver when met in church work is generally found in a curled up and apparently sleeping attitude . But the meaning of the position is that the animal is biting off the castoreum bags , which it was fabled to do ...
Page 188
... minster shews the same disposition . The beaver is a symbol of Christ in the point of view of self - sacrifice . The earliest carving of an elephant in England is said to be at Exeter . A miserere at Beverley Minster , in which the ...
... minster shews the same disposition . The beaver is a symbol of Christ in the point of view of self - sacrifice . The earliest carving of an elephant in England is said to be at Exeter . A miserere at Beverley Minster , in which the ...
Page 190
... BEVERLEY MINSTER . nestle his head , and sleep to his destruction . Thus it became the symbol of chastity and purity , and was the emblem of the Virgin Mary , of St. Agatha , and St. Justinia . The horns , anciently prized as those of ...
... BEVERLEY MINSTER . nestle his head , and sleep to his destruction . Thus it became the symbol of chastity and purity , and was the emblem of the Virgin Mary , of St. Agatha , and St. Justinia . The horns , anciently prized as those of ...
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