THE LILY OF THE SAINTS 233 



and collecting of books, had less to spend on 

 the encouragement of art. Later, in the six- 

 teenth and seventeenth centuries, and more 

 particularly in Spain, saints in all habits con- 

 stantly appear. 



Saint Dominic almost always carries a lily. 

 Saint Francis was sufficiently distinguished by 

 the stigmata. Saint Benedict by the chalice ; but 

 Saint Dominic has a lily white as the austerity 

 of his faith. 



Saint Anthony of Padua is to-day the most 

 popular of all the monastic saints. His sane 

 and gentle piety and his reputation for granting 

 little ordinary boons has endeared him to simple 

 folk. There seems no particular reason why 

 he, above other saintly monks, should be so 

 distinguished, but when he is not represented 

 with the Infant Christ in his arms he invariably 

 has a lily. In the very beautiful * Vision of 

 Saint Anthony,' by Murillo,^ where the Holy 

 Child appears in a ray of light, a vase of lilies 

 stands upon the table. In another picture, 

 by Annibale Caracci, the Child-Christ Himself 

 holds the lily. 



' Seville Cathedral. 



