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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

  1. See ante Chap. I., pp. 7-8 , for the history St. Honoré p. 148, §8 of this chapter, with the reference there given.