On one, however, I read the date 1850 and the name of a layman; for the tombstones were all modern, the humid English atmosphere giving them their mossy look of antiquity, and the crosier had been assumed only as a pretty device.
The sacristan opened a tall and narrow little recess in the wall of the chancel, and showed it entirely filled with the crosier of William of Wickham.
Then going to the king's monument, he fixed his crosier to the stone; then went and sat down among the monks.
The saint confessed himself unfit for the charge, but said, that king Edward, with the concurrence of the apostolic see, had compelled him to take it upon him, and that he would deliver his crosier to him.
No one was able to draw out the crosier till the saint was ordered to take it again, and it followed his hand with ease.
Their valor was ably seconded by the gallantry of my ecclesiastical friends: at a moment of danger they rallied round my banner, and forsaking the crosier for the sword, showed that they were of the church militant indeed.
Declan, his crosier in his hand, pursued the receding tide and his disciples followed after him.
They climbed up to the steeple, and brought down the crosier that was there hidden; it was all of gold and of silver.
Between this crosier and that of the Coronation, look again at a queer little reliquary, held by the Madonna and Child, with a glass front for the exhibition of the relic.
Now we have changed That law so good To crosierof gold And bishop of wood!
In the days of gold, The days of old, Crosier of wood And bishop of gold!
Suddenly, as Quasimodo passed triumphantly along the streets, the spectators saw a man, dressed like a priest, dart out and snatch away the gilded crosier from the mock pope.
Instead, he fell on his knees before the priest, and submitted to have his tiara torn from him and his crosier broken.
In our picture the good bishop is learning the truths of the faith from St. John, while a child-angel behind him holds his crosierand mitre.
The tiny fellow in charge of the mitre andcrosier peeps out with a mischievous countenance.
If then the crosier of St Fillan was present at the battle of Bannockburn, and the victory was ascribed to the saint's intervention, this may have been the occasion of its being glorified with such a magnificent silver shrine.
Since its arrival at Edinburgh the singular discovery has been made that the gilt silver casing of the crosier had been constructed for the purpose of inclosing an older staff-head of cast bronze.
What may be termed the private history of the crosier commences in the early part of the eighth century, when as the bacul or walking-staff of St Fillan, it accompanied him in his missionary journey to the wilds of Glendochart.
It is thus clear that when the old crosier was incased, it was first stripped of its ornamental plaques of filigree-work, which were again used in making up the external covering so far as they were available.
The surface of this older crosier is divided into panels by raised ridges ornamented with niello.
The crosier was splendid enough to have graced the processional ceremonials of the highest dignitary of the Church, and thus to have been a coveted acquisition to the richest monastery in the land.
And Crosier says he will do waur, He will do waur if waur can be; He'll make the bairns a' fatherless; And then the land it may lie lee.
This wool usually disappears later as the crosier unfolds into the broad green blade.
In its crosier stage it is wrapped in wool, which falls away as the fronds expand, but leaves, at the base of each pinna, a tiny tuft, as if to mark its identity.
O Patrick of the crosier staff, The wondrous Book, the anthems slow!
Than tyrant's law, or bigot's ban, More mighty is your simplest word; The free heart of an honest man Than crosier or the sword.
Not vainly Roman hearts have bled To feed the Crosier and the Crown, If, roused thereby, the world shall tread The twin-born vampires down.
Ah, the wolf's with the sheep, and the fox with the fowl, When freedom we trust to the crosier and cowl!
His effigy, withcrosier in hand, his feet resting on a dragon, lies upon a monument, about three feet high, with an opening in the lower part.
He holds a crosier in one hand, and raises the other, with fingers uplifted, in act of benediction.
The good old bishop walks humbly in the rear, in full canonical rig, with crosier and miter, his rich robes upborne by priestly attendants, his splendid footman at a respectful distance, and his roomy carriage not far behind.
A synod at which the king was present having met in the abbey of Westminster, William commanded Wulston, bishop of Worcester, to give up his crosier to him.
Not unto them, O master, but unto you, do I resign my crosier and the care of my flock.
Twice, the Prior struck his crosier impatiently on the flagstones to command silence.
I mean to chisel this crosier so nicely that by working upon it a little every day I shall consume the rest of my life at it.
You are a treasure of science, worthy of carrying the crosier and the mitre!
The young folks followed the old man's movements with curiosity, and to their great surprise they saw him take from its wrapping the little abbatial crosier of silver, at which he had for some time been chiseling.
I believe that, Master Bonaik; the little crosier has but little silver in it.
