, carrying palms and holding crowns in their hands._

_He told Lois that these people were 'Saints,' that they formed a long
procession on the walls of a big church at Ravenna, far away in Italy;
and that they were made of little pieces of a sort of shining glass
called 'mosaic.' 'Saints have something to do with glass then. But
these photographs are not a bit like my beautiful window,' Lois
thought to herself, rather sadly. 'There are no colours here.' She
turned over the photographs without much interest, until her father,
exclaiming, 'There, that is the one I want!' showed her one portrait
of a little girl standing among all the grown-up people, carrying just
as big a palm and crown as any of the others. He told Lois that these
crowns and palms were to show that the people who carried them had all
been put to death or 'martyred,' because they would not worship
heathen gods. He made Lois spell out the letters 'SCA. EULALIA'
written on the halo around the little girl's head, 'That is Saint
Eulalia,' her father explained. 'She was offered her freedom and her
life if she would sacrifice to idols just one tiny grain of corn, to
show that she renounced her allegiance to Jesus Christ; but when the
corn was put into her hands she threw it all back into the Judge's
face. After that, there was no escape for her. She was condemned to
die, and she did die, Lois, very bravely, though she was only a little
girl, not much older than you.' Here Lois hid her face against her
father's coat and shivered. 'But after that cruel death, when her
little body was lying unburied, a white dove hovered over it, until a
fall of snowflakes came and hid it from people's sight. So you see,
Lois, though Eulalia was only twelve years old when she was put to
death, she has been called Saint Eulalia ever since, though it all
happened hundreds of years ago. Children can be Saints as well as
grown-up people, if they are brave enough and faithful enough.'_

_'Saints must be brave, and Saints must be faithful,' Lois repeated,
as she shut up the big book and helped to carry it back to its shelf.
'But lots of other children have died since Sancta Eulalia was killed
and her body was covered by the snow. Surely some of those children
must have been brave and faithful too, even though they are not called
Saints? They don't stand on glass windows, or wear those things that
father calls haloes, and that I call plates, round their heads, with
their names written