O'Meagher — On St. Patrice de Rouen. 
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It has neither choir nor transepts. The tower is romanesque, sur- 
mounted by a carillon. There are but two entrances to it — one in Rue 
St. Patrice, now blocked up, and the other in Rue Neuve St. Patrice. 
Over this entrance are two spirited groups, carved in Caen stone ; the 
upper group represents Logaire mac IS'oill's druid attempting to poison 
the Apostle, and the lower, the baptism of Oengus mac NatfraicJi. The 
Apostle is represented in cope and jewelled mitre, the soldiers in Kor- 
man armour, and the laity in the costume of that period. The vaulted 
roof is supported by two rows of pillars, which divide the church inta 
nave and aisles. The high altar, which is covered by a valdacchino, 
stands in a shallow apex at the eastern end of the nave, on either side 
of which are two altars — one dedicated to the B.V. M. and the other 
to St. Joseph. The beautiful sculptured woodwork which embellishes 
these altars came from the suppressed Church of St. Eloi. A peculia- 
rity in St. Patrice is, that it has no Communion-rail, and that a portion 
of the nave has been railed off and fitted with sedilia. The pulpit, 
which is erected on the Gospel side of the altar, is not devoid of artistic 
merit ; it was brought from the ruined Church of St. Lo ; and the organ, 
which passed in the sixteenth century as one of the first in France, is 
encased in richly-carved oak. 
Upon entering St. Patrice the visitor's attention is at once drawn 
to the rare painted-glass windows, dating from the sixteenth century, 
the period at which painting on glass was in full perfection. 
The window dedicated to St. Patrick is immediately behind the 
pulpit. The upper panels illustrate three of his miracles, thus de- 
scribed in the Tripartite Life, edited by Whitley Stokes : — 
I^'ow, when the holy Patrick was born, he was taken to the blind,, 
flat-faced son to be baptised. Gornias was the priest's name^ 
and there was no water by him wherewith he could perform 
the baptism : so with the infant's hand he made the sign of 
the Cross over the earth, and a well of water broke thereout. 
Gornias washed his face (with that water) and his eyes were 
opened, and he read the (order of) Baptism : he who had never 
learned letters." — Page 9. 
And 
At another time, as Patrick was playing among his foster-brother& 
in the season of winter and cold especially, he gathered his 
lapful of icicles, and carried them home to his foster-mother. 
Then said his foster-mother to him : * To bring a faggot of fire- 
wood, that we might warm ourselves thereat, were better for 
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