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Title: Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Arthur H
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Animals in art Church architecture Church decoration and ornament
Publisher: London : Sir I. Pitman & sons,ltd.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE the bird would gaze towards him, thus attract-ing the disease to itself. The charadriuswould then fly up to the sun, where thepoison of the disease would be burned by theheat. This bird had a great thigh-bone, themarrow of which was supposed to restoresight to the blind. The symbolic interpretation refers to JesusChrist, Whose soul was perfectly white andfree from sin. He came down from heavenand turned His face from the Jewrs, but lookedupon the Gentiles, and healed them of theirspiritual diseases. Is the symbolism of thecharadrius partly drawn from such Biblicalpassages as Ezek. vii. 22 and Ps. lxxx. 7 ? The sick person is often representedcrowned in the mediaeval MSS., in allusionto the idea that the charadrius is found in thecourts of kings. In the sculpture at Alne(which looks rather like a raven pecking outthe eyes of a dead man) the inscription, Caladrius shows what the interpretationmust be. The cock is treated incidentally in theBestiaries. A twelf

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