certain, for the
virgin martyr herself told a priest and a nun in a dream, that she was
Fi[lia] Lumina, the daughter Lumina, _i.e._ the daughter of the Light of
the world. In confirmation of this dream, as her bones were carried to
Mugnano, the saint repaired her own skeleton, made her hair grow, and
performed so many miracles, that those must indeed be hard of belief who
can doubt the truth of the story.

=St. George= is the national saint of England, in consequence of the
miraculous assistance rendered by him, to the arms of the Christians
under Godfrey de Bouillon during the first crusade.

_St. George's Sword_, Askelon.

George he shaved the dragon's beard,
And Askelon was his razor.

Percy's _Reliques_, III. iii. 15.

_St. George_ (_Le chevalier de_), James Francis Edward Stuart, called
"The Old (or _elder_) Pretender" (1688-1766).

=St. Graal.= (See SANGRAAL.)

=St. Leon=, the hero of a novel of the same name, by W. Goodwin (1799).
St. Leon becomes possessed of the "elixir of life," and of the
"philosopher's stone;" but this knowledge, instead of bringing him
wealth and happiness, is the source of misery and endless misfortunes.

=Saint Maur=, one of the attendants of Sir Reginald Front de Boeuf (a
follower of Prince John).--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.).

=St. Nicholas=, the patron saint of boys. He is said to have been bishop
of Myra, in Lycia, and his death is placed in the year 326.

Under his triple names of _St. Nicholas_, _Santa Claus_ and _Kriss
Kringle_, he fills good children's stockings on Christmas Eve. Clement
C. Moore has made the annual visit of this saint "in a miniature sleigh
drawn by eight tiny reindeer," the subject of his famous nursery poem
beginning:

"'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."

(1844).

=St. Prieux=, the _amant_ of Julie, in Rousseau's novel entitled _Julie_
ou _La Nouvelle H['e]lo[:i]se_ (1760).

=St. Ronan's Well=, a novel by Sir W. Scott (1823). An inferior work; but
it contains the character of Meg Dods, of the Clachan or Mowbray Arms
inn, one of the very best low comic characters in the whole range of
fiction.

=St. Stephen's Chapel=, properly the House of Commons, but sometimes
applied to the two Houses of Parliament. So called by a figure of speech
from St. Stephen's Chapel, built by King Stephen, rebuilt by Edward II.
and III.,