WHY SAINTS HAVE HALOS
Saints hare halos, says the “Sunday at Home,” because a country boy made a curious mistake some hundreds of year* ago when he first began to ixiint. saerad pictures. In order to keep the rain from discolouring the statues of saints that stood just under the eave* of churches, the church authorities used to place wooden discs over them. Grotto, when a boy. assumed that the discs were an essential part of the sacred figures. At first ho painted above the head of each saint a disc that looked like tho bottom of a tub: later he made it a mere circle,' dark at first, but more and more luminous in successive pictures until it became the cfircle of lignt that painters ever since hare used as th« symbol of san»tl6» ootie®. <
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 93, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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136WHY SAINTS HAVE HALOS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 93, 13 January 1921, Page 5
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