Flagellants,91.Florence cathedral,446.Fly killed by monk,232.Foppish clergy,69;Pope,374.Fortunes, telling by Bible,93;Eligius on,248.Foundlings in Paris,260.France receiving crown of thorns,186.Francia, painter,484.Francis, St., of Assisi,254;dexterity,255;stigmata,255;biographer of,256;and the birds,403;and the wolf,404.Friars and monks,219;the order of,230;wearing shoes,257;startling the judges,261;burning ornaments,262,264.Frogs rebuked by monk,232.Fructuosus and the doe,397.Fulk of Neuilly,252,424.Fuller on relics,183;on monks,214,219.Galilee, sea of,53,54;population,56.Gall, St., monks of,274.Geismar, oak of,116.Genes, St., martyr,148.Genesius, martyr,148.Geneviève, St., patron saint,179.Genoa cathedral,444.Gervasius, relics of,196.Ghiberti, sculptor,480.Gibbon on monks,207.Glasgow, St. Mungo at,268.Glastonbury, monks of,189;chanting,225.Gloucester cathedral,470.Gnat stinging hermit,165.Godiva, lady,399.Gold, painter at sight of,482.Gothic cathedrals,440.Goths sacking Rome,113.Greek Church,400,437.Greek philosophers driven out,115;Church and Latin,119.Gregorian chant, dispute about,225.Gregory the Great sending missionaries to England,246;a hard case put,336;supper of,395;releasing Trajan,396.Gregory, St., on relics,185.Gregory VII.,137.Grosso, sculptor,482.Guizot on power of Popes,138.Guthlac, St., the hermit,169.Hallelujah victory,391.Hameln, piper of,399.Handel,511.Hatto, Bishop, and the rats,398.Heloïse, nun,294.Herbert, St., monk of Derwentwater,171.Hereford cathedral,471.Heretic refuted,103;Huss as,377;pleasure of burning,378;of Middle Ages,382;crusaders against,425.Hermits, outbreak of zeal,160;Antony,161;visit to another,162;bunch of grapes to,162;courtesies of,162;trying to quarrel,163;political economy of,163;St. Pambo,164;olive tree of,164;stung by gnat,165;Martin of Tours,165;Dorotheus,166;St. Pœmen,167;St. Moyses,167;Barnadatus,168;St. Carileff,169;Saxon hermits,169;St. Guthlac,170;Simeon Stylites,171;St. Herbert,171;Ethelwald,172;Queen consulting,174;a conscientious,174;St. Bartholomew of Farne,175;French King sending for,176;consecration of,177;invited by the Pope,229;made Pope,363.Hermon, Mount,57.Herod and Holy Family,5,46.Henry II., King, at Becket’s tomb,355.Hervé, little blind,395.Hilda, St., deathbed,274.Hildebrand, Pope,137.Hillel, relationship,49.History, church, how divided,63.Holidays in Church,80.Holy Family in Egypt,5,6.Holy Grail,394.Holy water,442.Host, the,75.Huss, martyr,152;on indulgences,371;burnt as heretic,377.Hymns, church,506.Iconoclasts,129,130,136.Ignatius Loyola,259.Illuminating by monks,241.Image, demolishing,112,121;worship,129,136;converting,134;in churches,472.Incense in churches,442.Indulgences, sale of,371.Innocents, massacre of,4.Inquisition,377;assassination of inquisitor,380;auto-da-fè,380.Interdict, papal,356.Irene, Empress,135.Isabella, Queen,381.Isidore forging decretals,118.James, intercisus, martyr,151.James, St.,29,34.Jerome, St., life of Paul,197;the lion and ass,198;deathbed of,199;epistles of,199.Jerusalem, sieges,50;situation,60;crusaders at,417;churches of,459.Jews, sacred vessels,114;and Christians,119,128;incited by Julian,120;golden age of,121;and Pope,122;of York,122;crucifying boys,123,125;stealing Host,125;banquets of,126;in Spain,126;physicians,127;conversion of,128;the wandering,392.Joan of Arc,153,159.Joan, Pope,398.Joanna made a nun,308.Jocelyn of Edmondsbury,304,307.John, St.,30,33.John Baptist, St.,45.John, King of England,354.John of Damascus,131,132.John of Salisbury,358.John of Peckham,362.John the Almsgiver,337.Johnson, Dr., on monks,207.Jordan, measurements of,53,54.Juanes, painter of Virgin,3.Jubilee year,87.Judas Iscariot,41.Julian the Apostate,104.Justinian and Theodora,115.Kempis, Thomas à,315.King, dying, sends for hermit,176.La Trappe monks,312.Lance, the holy,415.Lauder, St. Cuthbert,275.Legate of Pope visiting monastery,307.Legends, sacred,385;Thundering legion,387;Theban legion,387;divining-rod,387;St. George and dragon,388;Christina,389;Christopher,389;Hallelujah victory,391;Merlin’s prophecies,391;devil showing a book,392;Wandering Jew,392;St. Sabas,393;Theophilus’s compact,393;Holy Grail,394;Seven Sleepers,394;little blind Hervé,395;supper of St. Gregory,395;Gregory releasing Trajan,396;St. Bega,397;Fructuosus,397;Pope Joan,398;Bishop Hatto,398;St. Conrad,399;Piper of Hameln,399;Lady Godiva,399;sacred fire,400;Prester John,401;Loretto,401;St. Francis and the birds,403;St. Antony and the fishes,406;St. Roch,407.Legion, Thundering,387;Theban,387.Leo the Isaurian,129.Leo X., Pope,375.Leon cathedral,449.Leonardo da Vinci,485.Lepers tended by St. Francis,254.Lilies of the field,58.Lincoln cathedral,470.Lindisfarne, saints of,272.Lion and St. Jerome,198;and Saracen king,352;and St. Sabas,393.Liturgy, ancient,73,74.Lives of the saints,237.Locusts warded off by monks,244.Loretto and holy cottage,401.Louis, St., of France, crown of thorns,186;a monk,309;deathbed of,430.Louis VII.,421.Luke, St.,25.Lull, Raimund, and Saracens,258.Luther revisiting old convent,236;on music,509.Lyons, martyrs of,144.Macarius, hermit,162,165.Mahomet and Christianity,115.Manuscripts of monks,238;of nuns,240.Margaret of Scotland,348.Mark, St.,24.Marseilles church,453.Martha, St.,48.Martin of Tours,112,164.Martyrs, early,142;Valeria,142;Thecla,143;Polycarp,143;Felicitas,144;of Lyons,144;Cecilia,145;Ursula,146;Perpetua,146;Barbara,147;Potamiana,147;St. Genes,148;Genesius,149;St. Alban,149;Didymus,149;Cyprian,150;Chrysostom,150;James, intercisus,151;Stephen,151;for images,151,177;Huss,152;Joan of Arc,153.Mary Magdalene,47.Mary (Virgin), heathen knowledge of,1;portraits,3;marriage,3;in Egypt,4;assumption,7;death,7.Mass,74.Master of Hungary,430.Matilda of Flanders consulting hermit,174.Matthew, St.,24.Medard, St.,83.Meinrad, monk,281.Merlin’s prophecies,391.Merom, Waters of,55.Methodius in Moravia,247.Micael painting a crucifix,190.Michael Angelo,494.Milan cathedral,445.Millennium in early times,64,84.Miracles of St. Bernard,298.Miserere at Valencia,452;in Sistine Chapel,508.Missal painting of monks,241.Missionary of fourth century,243;mediæval,261.Model for painter,483.Moleme, Robert of,226.Monastery, life in,216,218;how a site acquired,235;scriptorium,237;of Einsiedeln,281;Croyland,283;Cluny,284;of St. Bernard,285;fire at Croyland,286,290;of Bec,289;St. Evroult,292;of Vallombrosa,293;Carthusians,296;Cistercians,297;Edmundsbury,304;rebuilding altar,305;of Mount Athos,312;Certosa,313;Yuste and Charles V.,318;pictures in,473.Monks, Chrysostom on,201;origin of,206;Gibbon on,207;Dr. Johnson on,207;motives for becoming,208;weak side of,208;reformed by St. Benedict,209;Columban,210;settling in forest,211;denouncing king’s ferocity,211;making them work,212;Benedict of Aniane,212;monk at court writing home,213;drinking wine in England,214;Charlemagne’s doubts as to,214;Duke William,215;going to live at court,215;reasons for so many,216;life of,216;routine of English,218;officials in monastery,218;and friars,219;brawls with friars,220;orders of,220;wanting to be angels,221;abbess of Arles, deathbed,221;Cædmon, monk poet,223;sleeping too long,223;lecturing against idleness,223;war of two abbots,224;chanting,225;pillaging,225;living frugally,226;burial of,227;sick,227;honouring the rich,228;good lessons of,229;invited by Pope,229;at Sempringham,231;compunctions of,232;killing a fly,232;stealing food,234;deciding on creeds,234;interceding for prisoners,235;acquiring a site,235;Luther at grave of,236;and polite letters,236;of St. Gall,237;manuscripts of,238;missal painting,239;illuminating,241;proselytising,243;warding off locusts,244;Severinus,244;Fulk of Neuilly,252;Dominic,253;Francis,254;Thomas Conecte,263;Arsenius,266;Ninian,267;Mungo,267;Columba,269;Columban,271;Aidan,272;Chad,273;Bede,275,278;Cuthbert,275;Duke William,280;Meinrad,282;of Croyland,283,290;