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Title: The saints in art : with their attributes and symbols alphabetically arranged
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Tabor, Margaret Emma
Subjects: Christian saints in art
Publisher: New York : F.A. Stokes
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he sight of her youth 132 THE SAINTS IN ART and beauty, to accept the Faith, so the Governor ordered her to be beheaded. As she died, she prayed that all women who, in remembrance of her sufferings, invoked herin childbirth, should find help. She is represented as young and fair, tread-ing on a dragon, She has the cross, palm, or crown of martyrdom ; sometimes (in allusion to her name) she has pearls round her hair. Picture by Giulio Romano (from Raphael's design), in the Louvre. Mark, St. (Biblical). (Ital. San Marco.)(See Evangelists.) (25^ April)Tradition says that St. Mark became the companion and amanuensis of St. Peter, by whose direction he went to preach the Gospel in Egypt, where he founded the Church of Alexandria. Here he performed many miracles, and on one occasion healed Anianus, a cobbler, who had wounded his hand with an awl. This man afterwards became a zealous Christian, and succeeded St. Mark as Bishop of Alexandria. St. Mark was finally seized and dragged through the streets till he
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2 Scs a * ,-* - THE SAINTS IN ART 133 died, a tempest of rain and hail meanwhile overwhelming his murderers. His remains were brought to Venice about 815, and the Cathedral of St. Mark was built over them. There are various legends of St. Mark appearing at later times in Venice ; in a famous one, he, with St. George and St. Nicholas, drives off a galley full of demons from the city in a fisherman's boat, with the sign of the cross. St. Mark sent the fisherman to the Doge to be paid for his labour, and gave him his ring as a token that it was St. Mark who sent him, and as the ring could not be found in its usual place among the relics, the Doge was constrained to believe the story. He is also said to have appeared at the torture and execution of a Christian slave, and to have broken the instruments in pieces. He is represented as an evangelist, with a lion, often winged ; as Bishop of Alexandria; or with his pen and book; and often with St. Peter. A notable picture of him by Fra Bartolomeo is in the Pitti,

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