2 OUTDOOR STUDIES 
been in the Roman Catholic Church: George, 
Michael, Sebastian, Eustace, Martin, Hubert the 
Hunter, and Christopher the Christian Her- 
cules. But these have always held a very 
secondary place in canonization. Maurice and 
his whole Theban legion also were sainted to- 
gether, to the number of six thousand six hun- 
dred and sixty-six ; doubtless they were stalwart 
men, but there never yet has been a chapel 
erected to one of them. The medizval type of 
sanctity was a strong soul in a weak body; and 
it could be intensified either by strengthening 
the one or by further debilitating the other. 
The glory lay in contrast, not in combination. 
Yet, to do them justice, they conceded a strong 
and stately beauty to their female saints, — 
Catherine, Agnes, Agatha, Barbara, Cecilia, and 
the rest. It was reserved for the modern Pre- 
Raphaelites to attempt the combination of a 
maximum of saintliness with a minimum of pul- 
monary and digestive capacity. 
But, indeed, from that earlier day to this, the 
saints by spiritual laws have usually been sin- 
ners against physical laws, and the artists have 
merely followed the examples they found. 
Vasari records, that Carotto’s masterpiece of 
painting, “The Three Archangels,” at Verona, 
was criticised because the limbs of the angels 
were too slender, and Carotto, true to his con- 
