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THE BIBLE OF AMIENS.
CENTRAL STATUE. | |
St. Firmin. | |
Southern (left) side. | |
41. | St. Firmin the Confessor |
42. | St. Domice. |
43. | St. Honoré. |
44. | St. Salve. |
45. | St. Ouentin. |
46. | St. Gentian. |
Northern (right) side. | |
47. | St. Geoffroy. |
48. | An angel. |
49. | St. Fuscien, martyr. |
50. | St. Victoric, martyr. |
51. | An angel. |
52. | St. Ulpha. |
45. Of these saints, excepting St. Firmin and St. Honore, of whom I have already spoken,[1] St Geoffroy is more real for us than the rest; he was born in the year of the battle of Hastings' at Molincourt in the Soissonais, and was Bishop of Amiens from 1104 to 1150. A man of entirely simple, pure, and right life: one of the severest of ascetics, but without gloom—always
- ↑ See ante Chap. I., pp. 7-8 , for the history St. Honoré p. 148, §8 of this chapter, with the reference there given.