ks, and support the square abacus, one under each
corner. The next scene, in the division above, is some miracle or other,
which took place at mass, it seems. The bishop is saying mass before an
altar; behind him are four assistants; and, as the bishop stands there
with his hand raised, a hand coming from somewhere by the altar, holds
down towards him the consecrated wafer. The thing is gloriously carved,
whatever it is. The assistant immediately behind the bishop, holding in
his hands a candle-stick, somewhat slantwise towards the altar, is,
especially in the drapery, one of the most beautiful in the upper part of
this tympanum; his head is a little bent, and the line made from the back
of it over the heavy hair, down along the heavy-swinging robe, is very
beautiful.

The next scene is the shrine of some Saint. This same bishop, I suppose,
dead now, after all his building and ruling, and hard fighting, possibly,
with the powers that be; often to be fought with righteously in those
times. Over the shrine sits the effigy of the bishop, with his hand
raised to bless. On the western side are two worshippers; on the
eastern, a blind and a deaf man are being healed, by the touch of the
dead bishop's robe. The deaf man is leaning forward, and the servant of
the shrine holds to his ear the bishop's robe. The deaf man has a very
deaf face, not very anxious though; not even showing very much hope, but
faithful only. The blind one is coming up behind him with a crutch in
his right hand, and led by a dog; the face was either in its first
estate, very ugly and crabbed, or by the action of the weather or some
such thing, has been changed so.

So the bishop being dead and miracles being wrought at his tomb, in the
division above comes the translation of his remains; a long procession
taking up the whole of the division, which is shorter than the others,
however, being higher up towards the top of the arch. An acolyte bearing
a cross, heads the procession, then two choristers; then priests bearing
relics and books; long vestments they have, and stoles crossed underneath
their girdles; then comes the reliquary borne by one at each end, the two
finest figures in this division, the first especially; his head raised
and his body leaning forward to the weight of the reliquary, as people
nearly always do walk when they carry burdens and are going slowly; which
this procession certainly is doing, for some of the figures are even