54 WALL-PAINTINGS, AT LUDGVAN, MYLOR, &C. 
From another source also we learn, what was believed con- 
cerning “great Christopher, who, painted, is with body big and 
tall.” He (like St. Nicholas) would keep the mariners from “dangers 
and disease, though beaten with the boisterous waves and tossed 
in dreadful seas.” He would guard his servants “from fearful 
terrors of the night and make them well to rest, by whom they 
also, all their life, with divers joys were blest ;” and notwith- 
standing that St. Peter was the Patron Saint of Fishers, a tutelage 
over fishing came to be regarded as one of the minor attributes of 
this Saint. 
At St. Mark’s, Venice, Mr. Albert Way informs me, a sculp- 
tured figure of St. Christopher occurs on the north side of the 
church ; and he alludes to a curious painting met with on the 
north aisle wall of Horley Church, Banbury, where the staff or palm- 
tree is shewn snapping in twain beneath the weight of the Won- 
drous Infant ; the legend on the scrolls forming a quaint English 
dialogue,* anda man being seen fishing in a river where fish are 
swimming about. Mr. Way also mentions other groups described 
by the late Mr. Dawson Turner with many interesting details.t 
At Shawell too, it has been observed that a group was discov- 
ered, displaying a gigantic St. Christopher, bearing the Infant 
across the rushing waters, and supporting himself with his staff 
—other personages being introduced—some employed in the 
various sports over which the Saint was patron, one of them 
with shoes of enormous length, sitting on a bank fishing.t 
The “ party-colored Turbant,” as Dr. Borlase calls it, on the 
head of the Bambino, at Ludgvan, is, of course, merely the regular 
form of “Sacred Nimbus, charged with red cross,” which is con- 
stantly met with, distinguishing the figures of Our Lord (either in 
his human form, or that of the Holy Lamb), and which is even 
placed about the head of the Holy Dove. § 
The “Priest carrying Host-Cista” is so styled by Dr. Borlase, 
as he tells us, from the tenor of the words on the label overhead. 
On this point of his interpretation, however, a doubt may fairly 
* (To this effect I am informed). ‘‘ What art thou that art so hevy? 
Bar I never so hevy a thynge!” ‘Yes, I be hevy, no wunder thys, for I am 
the Kynge of blys!” 
+ Gent. Mag., April, 1843. 
+ Gent. Mag., 1847, Vol. 2, p. 188. ; 
§ In accordance with the ‘ Filioque ” Doctrine of Procession. 
