Abbess of Arles, deathbed,221.Abbey, officials of,218.Abbots, power over monastery,217;lecturing his monks,223;war of two,224;harassed with care,306.Abdication of Emperor,330;of Pope,363;of Sultan,372.Actor, the martyr,148.Adriano, painter,496.Agbarus writing to Christ,12.Agnus Dei,75.Agobard of Lyons,340.Aidan, St., of Lindisfarne,272;death of,276.Aix-la-Chapelle cathedral,455.Alaric respects churches,112.Alban, St., martyr,149;cathedral,467,469.Albigenses,426.Alfred, King,341,343.All Saints’ Day,80.Altar in churches,441.Amalfi cathedral,451.Ambrose, St.,194;asleep at Mass,195;sayings of,196;on relics,196.Amiens cathedral,454.Ammerghau plays,82.Andrew, St.,28;patron saint,29;head of, purchased by Pope,191.Angel, monk wanting to be,221.Angelico, painter,479.Anschar, apostle to the North,249.Anselm, Archbishop,351.Antioch church,51.Antony, St., temptations of,161;visits Paul,197.Antony of Padua,257;psalm-book stolen,308;preaching to the fishes,406.Antwerp cathedral,456.Ape of bishop painting,475.Apocryphal gospels,9,20.Apostles, deaths and marriages of,23.Apostolic Church,64.Aquinas, Thomas,137.Archbishop, choosing,335;John the Almsgiver,337;the ugliest,345;Anselm,351;Turstin,353.Architecture, church,438.Aretino, painter,479.Arsenius, monk,266.Ass, feast of the,81.Athos, Mount, its monasteries,312.Attila, impressed by the Pope,113.Augustine, St., of Hippo, vision of,203;faith in dreams,203;on miracles,207.Augustine in England,245.Auricular confession,67.Auto-da-fè,380.Avignon, Popes at,366.Barbara, martyr,147.Barnabas, St.,27.Barnadatus, an austere hermit,168.Bartholomew, St.,25.Bartholomew of Farne, hermit,175.Basle, nuns of,233.Bec monastery,289.Becerra, sculptor,492.Becket, St. Thomas, pilgrims to,191;murder of,355.Bede, Venerable, on Farne hermits,173,275;deathbed,278.Bega, St.,397.Bells in church,76,501.Benedict, St., at Monte Cassino,209,268;death of,269.Benedict of Aniane,212.Bernard, St., monks of,285.Bernard, St., begging for robber’s life,208;against Abelard,295;sister of,299;second crusade,420.Bethlehem church,460.Bible, Septuagint,21;English,22;telling fortunes by,93,248.Birds and St. Francis,402,404;and St. Guthlac,170.Bishops, early,70;first degraded,329;building workhouse,330;seeking a site,331;of fifth century,332;putting down soothsayers,333;releasing prisoners,334;giving a horse to,338;of Hexham,339;at head of troops,343;jokes of,346;pompous,347;at early Mass,351;aerial music at death of,362;inviting old master,372;ape of, painter,475.Black death,90,124.Blandina, martyr,144.Bonaventura, St., life of Christ,7;honouring the rich,228.Bonfires of gaudy dresses,262,264.Boniface, St., missionary,116.Boy bishop, feast of,81.Bristol cathedral,471.Bronzes for gates of Paradise,480.Bruce, Robert, a crusader,432.Buffalmacco, painter,475,477.Buffoons, feast of the,81.Burial of monks,227.Bury St. Edmunds monastery,304,306,307.Cædmon, monk poet,222.Cano, painter,500.Canterbury, monks of,189;pilgrims to,192;cathedral,463.Canute, visiting Rome,346;rebuking the sea,346.Capernaum,54,62.Cardinals, origin of,328.Carileff, St., the hermit,169.Carlisle cathedral,469.Carthusians,296,300.Cassino, Monte, monastery,209.Cassiodorus, his library,236.Cathedrals, spires and dimensions,440;Gothic,441;St. Peter’s,442;Genoa,444;Turin,444;Milan,445;Florence,446;Pisa,446;San Gennaro,447;Santiago,448;Leon,449;Seville,450;Toledo,450;Cordova,451;Amalfi,451;Oviedo,452;Paris, Notre Dame,453;Marseilles,454;Chartres,454;Amiens,454;Rheims,455;Aix-la-Chapelle,455;Treves,456;Antwerp,456;Cologne,457;St. Petersburg,457;Vienna,458;St. Paul’s,461;Canterbury,463;York,463;Durham,465;Winchester,466;Oxford,466;Peterborough,467;Salisbury,468;Wells,468;English and Welsh,469,470.Catherine of Siena,314.Cecilia, St., martyr,144.Chad, St.,275.Chanting of monks,225;of Charles V. as monk,322.Charlemagne, doubts as to monks,214;leaving his court to be monk,215;monk at his court,215.Charles V., Emperor, as monk,318;his dress,319;apartments,319;detestation of heretics,320.Chartres cathedral,454.Cheese, painter fed on,461.Chichester cathedral,470.Children’s crusade,428.Chimes on bells,502.Christian, name of,94;viewed by Pagans,97;oppose wild beasts,97.Christmas Day,79.Christ in Egypt,7;as a boy,9;portraits of,11,12;false,21;sentence on,44;blood of,188;painted by Micael,190.Christina and the millstone,389.Christopher, St.,389.Chrysostom, St., as hermit,150;as preacher,201;on monkery,201;on speaking in church,201.Church, building age,84;spires of,440;dimensions,440;altars in,441;bells,501;chimes,502;music,503.Church, apostolic,64;early,64;ancient buildings,72;service,75;organs and bells,76;sexes in,77;praying for dead,77;festivals,80.Cimabue, painter,475.Cinderella of the convent,230.Cistercians,297,300.Clara, St., and the Saracens,310.Claudius of Turin,133.Clergy, dress,69;foppish,69;unity of,326.Clovis, conversion of,334.Cluny, monks of,284.Coldingham, nuns of,283.Cologne, archbishop,345;cathedral,457.Columba, St., of Iona,269,270.Columban, monk,210,271.Columbus, crusader,435.Community of goods,65.Compostella and St. James,35,36,448.Conecte, Thomas, the monk,263.Conrad, St.,399.Constantine,99;standard of cross,100;dream,100;preaching,101;last illness,102.Constantinople, French pillaging,425;cathedrals,458.Constantius testing Christians,98.Convent, life in a,217.Coptic church,439.Cordova cathedral,451.Correggio, painter,491.Cosmas, the monk tutor,131.Council, of Nice,102;owl attending,370.Creeds, monks deciding on,234.Cross, forms of,15;discovery of,15;nails of,16;legend of,17;dividing into parts,183.Crown of thorns pawned,19.Croyland, St. Guthlac at,169,170;monks of,283;burning of abbey,283,290;Turketul as abbot,286.Crucifix during plague,190;clumsy,482.Crucifixion, thieves at,16.Crusaders, beginnings of,408;Peter the hermit on,411;and the earth of Palestine,413;how they treated spies,414;and the holy lance,415;testing a doubtful point,417;first sight of Jerusalem,417;capturing Jerusalem,419;first visit to holy places,419;Bernard’s second crusade,420;French Queen at,421;bringing home relics,422;Fulk of Neuilly,424;death of Richard I.,424;pillaging Constantinople,425;attacking heretics,425;Albigenses,427;children’s,428;more preaching for,428;paying money for,429;master of Hungary,430;deathbed of Louis of France,431;entertained,431;dying king as,432;Knights Templars,433;faith in Providence,434;Columbus as,435;numbers of,436;Greek Church and pilgrims,437.Customs, early church,65.Cuthbert, St.,275,278;his body carried,277;his shrine at Durham,465.Cyprian, St., and Justina, martyrs,150.Cyril, St., of Alexandria,204.Damascus and rivers,54;John of,131,132.Damiani, Peter,85.Dancing mania,91.Deaconess,72.Dead, prayers for,77.Dead Sea, measurements,53.Deathbed of Constantine,102;of abbess,221,274;of monk,227;of Bede,278;of abbot,302.Decretals, false,117.Derwentwater, monk at,171.Devil and St. Christopher,391;showing a book,392;and Theophilus,393.Didymus and Theodora, martyrs,149.Divine right, king by,352.Divining-rod,387.Doctors of the Middle Ages,302.Dominic, St.,86;preaching,253.Dominico, painter,498.Donato, sculptor,478.Dorotheus, architect to hermits,166.Douglas, the, as crusader,432.Dream, of Constantine,100;St. Augustine’s faith in,203.Dress of clergy,69,92.Dunstan, St., relics,189;as monk,285.Durham cathedral,465.Easter Day,79.Edward the Confessor and St. John,33.Egypt, Holy Family in,5.Einsiedeln monastery,281.Eleanor, Queen, as crusader,421.Eligius, bishop,339.Elizabeth of Hungary,310.Ely monks capturing relics,182;cathedral,469.Emblems of Christians,66.Emperor as monk,320;abdication of,330;excommunication of,359;retaliating on Pope,360;as crusader,423.Empire, Roman,140,141.Empress begging for relics,185.England, St. Augustine landing in,245,246.Ethelbert receiving St. Augustine,246.Ethelwald, hermit of Farne,172.Eton montem,82.Exeter cathedral,469.Extortioners of Pope,361.Farne, hermits of,172,175;Aidan at,272;Cuthbert at,275,276.Fathers, the,194;Origen,194;Ambrose,195,196;Jerome,197;Chrysostom,200;Augustine,202;Cyril,204;notions of,205.Felicitas, martyr,144.Festivals in church,80,83.Fishes, St. Antony preaching to,406.