"Baptistry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... baptistry, with lamps dimly burning, the women were stripped even of their tunics, plunged three times in the pool, then anointed, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... place of considerable interest. In the wood N. from the village there lived a hermit named Sigar, the subject of some monkish legends. He lived about the time of Henry I., and was buried beside Roger the Monk (see Markyate Street) in the S. aisle of the Baptistery of St. Alban's Abbey. There was originally a small church close to the village, E.E. or perhaps late Norman; this was replaced by the cruciform church of St. Thomas Becket, a pseudo-Perp. structure, destroyed by fire in 1881; the present ...
— Hertfordshire • Herbert W Tompkins
... Coptic churches, high transverse wooden partitions, elaborately wrought in the Arab fashion, which divide it into three sections: the first, into which one comes on entering the church, is allotted to the women, the second is for the baptistery, and the third, at the end adjoining the iconostasis, is reserved ...
— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti
... her hand towards the town, as if to recommend his immediate procedure in quest of a baptistery. ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland
... Baptistery is at this present time in process of being "restored," that is, dashed to pieces, and common stone painted black and varnished, substituted for its black marble. In the Campo Santo, the invaluable frescoes, which might be protected by merely ...
— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin
... this: In a performance of the creation, when God separates light from darkness, the stage direction is, "Now a painted cloth is to be exhibited, one half black and the other half white." It was also given more permanent form. In the mosaics of San Marco at Venice, in the frescoes of the Baptistery at Florence and of the Church of St. Francis at Assisi, and in the altar carving at Salerno, we find a striking realization of it—the Creator placing in the heavens two disks or living figures of equal size, each suitably coloured or inscribed to show that one represents light ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... thousand soldiers: he waged a five years' war against the people of Alexandria; and on the first intelligence of the death of Marcian, he became the victim of their zeal. On the third day before the festival of Easter, the patriarch was besieged in the cathedral, and murdered in the baptistery. The remains of his mangled corpse were delivered to the flames, and his ashes to the wind; and the deed was inspired by the vision of a pretended angel: an ambitious monk, who, under the name of Timothy the Cat, [69] succeeded to the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon
... orthodox meal of each other. The next day the weather cleared up, and we made a trip of two miles over a rough mountain trail to Lake Avalanche, whose rocky and precipitous walls form a fit christening bowl, or baptistery-font ...
— The Hudson - Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention • Wallace Bruce |
