Identifier: legendsofmonasti1867jame (find matches)
Title: Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. Forming the second series of Sacred and legendary art
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860
Subjects: Saints Monasticism and religious orders Christian art and symbolism
Publisher: London : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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habit, it is easy toconfound him with St. Bernard, St. Bruno, or St. Eomualdo; 1 St. Maur was introduced into England, and held in great veneration by ourNorman ancestors; I believe it is generally known that from this French saint isderived one of our greatest English surnames,—Seymaur or Seymour, from Saint-Maur; but I should regret a return to the French appellation. Saint-Maur isforeign, and interesting only as the name of a French monk: Seymour is English,and surrounded by all those historical associations which give the name its Englishclaims to consideration, and its charm to English ears. LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS. where lie has the black habit, he may be mistaken for St.Antony. It is therefore necessary to attend particularly tosome characteristic attributes which serve to distinguish him. In all pictures painted for those Benedictine churches andedifices which depend on Monte Cassino and Subiaco, and in thesingle devotional effigies, St. Benedict wears the black habit
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St. Benedict. (From an engraving by Wierx.) with a hood; where he figures as patriarch of the ReformedBenedictines of Clairvaux, Citeaux, Camaldoli, or Vallombrosa,he wears the white habit. He is sometimes beardless, or withlittle beard; but more frequently he has a long white beard.

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