teaches,
the anguish and torments of Christ.

Green: used liturgically at Seasons of Pilgrimage, and which seems to be
the colour preferred by the Benedictine Sisterhood, interpreting it as
meaning freshness of soul and perennial sap; the green which, in the
hermeneutics of colour, expresses the hopes of the regenerated creature,
the yearning for final repose, and which is likewise the mark of
humility, according to the Anonymous English writer of the thirteenth
century, and of contemplation, according to Durand of Mende.

On the other hand, Angelico has intentionally refrained from introducing
the hues which are emblematic of vices, excepting of course those
adopted for the garb of the Monastic Orders, which altogether changes
their meaning.

Black: the colour of error and the void, the seal of death, and,
according to Sister Emmerich, the image of profaned and wasted gifts.

Brown: which, as the same Sister tells us, is synonymous with agitation,
barrenness and dryness of the spirit, and neglect of duty; brown; which
being composed of black and red--smoke darkening the sacred fire--is
Satanic.

Grey: the ashes of penance, the symbol of tribulation, according to the
Bishop of Mende, the sign of half-mourning formerly used in the Paris
ritual instead of violet in Lent. The mingling of white and black, of
virtue and vice, of joy and grief, the mirror of the soul that is
neither good nor evil, the medium being, the lukewarm creature that God
spueth out, grey can only rise by the infusion of a little purity, a
little blue; but can, when thus converted to pearl grey, become a pious
hue, and attempt a step towards Heaven, an advance in the lower paths of
Mysticism.

Yellow: considered by Sister Emmerich as the colour of idleness, of a
horror of suffering, and often given to Judas in mediaeval times, is
significant of treason and envy. Orange: of which Frederic Portal
speaks as the revelation of Divine Love, the communion of God with man,
mingling the blood of Love to the sinful hue of yellow, may be taken to
bear a worse meaning with the idea of falsehood and torment; and,
especially when it verges on red, expresses the defeat of a soul
over-ridden by its sins, hatred of Love, contempt of Grace, the end of
all things.

Dead leaf colour: speaking of moral degradation, spiritual death, the
hopefulness of green for ever extinct.

Finally, violet: adopted by the Church for the Sundays in Advent and in
Lent, and for pe