IX. SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS 325

c. S. BASIL (to the right of his friend St. Gregory). St. Basil the Great, the founder of monachism in the East, began his life of devotion in early youth, and is here represented as a young man. The order of the Basilicans is still the only order in the Greek Church. His scroll has-

XUT SO

LE EST

PRIMUM“Ut sole est primum lux mundi, fide baptismum.”

LUX(MU“As by the sun we first have the light of the

DI FIDEworld, so by faith we have baptism.”

BATIS

MUM)

d. S. ATHANASIUS, old and white haired. His scroll runs-

XUT UN

UM EST

NUM

EN SI“Ut unum est numen, sic sacro munere flumen.”

C SACR“As the Godhead is one, so by divine ordinance

OMUis the river (of God?)” (?).

NERE

FLV

MEN

150. (VII.) THE FOUR LATIN FATHERS-St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, and St. Gregory the Great (on the spandrils of the altar dome).

The light here is very bad; and even after accustoming himself to it, the reader will hardly be able to do more than see that all four figures have books before them, in which they are writing, apparently in Greek characters. What they have written-in no case more than a few letters-it is impossible to decipher from the floor of the chapel. St. Jerome wears his cardinal’s hat and robes, and St. Ambrose has his bee-hive near him, in allusion to the

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