Online Texts for Craig White's Literature Courses

Illustrations for Sarah Orne Jewett's "The Town Poor"

aureole or nimbus

The golden halos around the heads of pagan gods and Christian saints refer both to their being bathed in the glory of the sun and also to the fact that a spiritual sun within their own natures is radiating its glow-ray and surrounding them with celestial splendor. Audsley's Handbook of Christian Symbolism