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three together, in the little chapel of St. George of the Schiavoni;-St. George’s “Porphyrio,” the bird of chastity, with the bent spray of sacred vervain in its beak, at the foot of the steps on which St. George is baptizing the princess;¹ St. Jerome’s lion, being introduced to the monastery (with resultant effect on the minds of the brethren); and St. Jerome’s dog, watching his master translating the Bible, with highest complacency of approval.

29. And of St. Theodore himself you may be glad to know that he was a very historical and substantial saint as late as the fifteenth century, for in the Inventory of the goods and chattels of his scuola,² made by order of its

¹ [For this picture, see below, § 170, and Plate LXI. Ruskin’s study of the bird is Plate LXII. For St. Jerome’s lion, see Plate LXIV.; the dog, in the picture of “St. Jerome in his Study” (Plate LXVI.), is here given, drawn by Ruskin (engraved by Stodart); for another reference to the dog, see Fors Clavigera, Letter 74, § 8.]

² [For further particulars of “the Club, or School,” of St. Theodore, see, again, Fors Clavigera, Letter 75.]

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