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Updated: May 18, 2025
The massive table of cedar of Lebanon, figured in ivory and mother o' pearl with the Rape of Proserpine, the work of a pupil of Benvenuto Cellini, remained, as also did the prie-dieu, enriched with silver daisies, which Michelangelo had designed for Margaret of Navarre. The jewelled crucifix was gone, together with the old chain bible and ebony lectern from the Cistercian Monastery at La Trappe.
Philip Cazenove, who died in 1880, by his son Arthur, an honorary canon. #The Lectern# is of carved wood, of the well-known form in which the book is borne by an eagle's out-spread wings. #Monuments.# The nave and main transept possess none that are very old or very remarkable, but the following seem to deserve mention.
In the glow, the ivy twines in cunning garlands round the rough-sculptured font, and the oak lectern; and, above God's altar, a great white cross of hot-house flowers blooms delicately, telling of summer, and matching the words of old good news beneath it, that brought, as some say, summer, or, at least, the hope of summer, to the world. Yes, we have nearly done.
Behind was the black cave, masked with green thorn, so low that it was hard to believe that a man could enter it. In front was the fall of the cliffs and the vast but cloudy vision of the valley. On the small rock platform stood an old bronze lectern or reading-stand, groaning under a great German Bible.
Here, wearing a cross on his breast, near them, is prosperous- looking old Priest in a silken cassock, with long gray hair flowing on to his cope; before a lectern who wears the golden cross and has a Gospel bound in gold. They summon Iran Petroff.
The bier stood near the lectern, between four rows of candles. Charles felt inclined to get up and put them out. Yet he tried to stir himself to a feeling of devotion, to throw himself into the hope of a future life in which he should see her again. He imagined to himself she had gone on a long journey, far away, for a long time.
The lectern, gay as a chanter undone by the treachery of wine, was skipping about like a peal of Chinese bells. Then I knew that the whole cathedral was whirling round so fast that everything appeared to be undisturbed. Then some graceful women's forms began to stir on the friezes. The cherubs who upheld the heavy columns shook out their wings.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul." A strange peace came over her as the music of these grand old sentences, throbbing with the passionate faith of centuries, swept her heart. He was reading from the old Bible that rested on the same golden lectern pulpit Gordon had hurled behind him that awful day in their history.
At last, with a sudden dramatic gesture, he turned from the lectern and threw out both arms towards the high gold chair. "Oh, empty throne! Empty world!" he cried. "Be filled!" There was something intense, something electric in the words. A startled cry broke from the people, already wrought to nervous tension.
He then speaks of the different reredoses, tombs of two priors, silver candlesticks, a great silver cross made by Eytor Gonsalves, a goldsmith of Lisbon, much other church plate, and then goes on to say that a lectern was ordered for the choir but was not made and was much needed, as was a silver monstrance, and that the monastery had no money to pay Christovam de Figueiredo for painting the great reredos of the high altar and those of the other chapels, 'and, Sir, it is necessary that they should be painted.
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