gend he is associated with Saint Simon; according to the Breviary,
he is said to have evangelized Mesopotamia and to have suffered
martyrdom with his companion Saint in Persia. The Bollandists, on the
other hand, assert that he was the Apostle to Arabia and Idumea, while
the Greek Menology relates that he was shot to death with arrows by the
infidels in Armenia.

"In fact all these accounts differ; and iconography adds to the
confusion by representing Jude with the most various attributes.
Sometimes, as at Amiens, he holds a palm, or, as at Chartres, a book. He
is also seen with a cross, a square, a boat, a wand, an axe, a sword,
and a spear.

"But in spite of the unfortunate reputation earned for him by his
namesake Judas, the symbolists of the Middle Ages regard him as a man of
charity and zeal, and attribute to him the splendour of the purple and
gold fires of the chrysoprase, regarded as emblematical of good works.

"All this is but incoherent," thought Durtal, "and what also strikes me
as strange is that this Saint, so rarely invoked by our forefathers--who
for long never dedicated any altar to him, is twice represented in
effigy at Chartres--supposing the Verlaine of the royal porch to
represent Saint Jude; but then that seems improbable."

"What I should now like to know," he went on, "is why the historians of
this cathedral pronounce the scene of the last Judgment represented on
the tympanum of the door as the most remarkable of its kind in France.
This is utterly false, for it is vulgar, and certainly inferior to many
others.

"The demoniacal half is far less vigorous, more supine, less crowded
than in other churches of the same period. At Chartres, it is true, the
devils with wolves' muzzles and asses' ears, trampling down bishops and
kings, laymen and monks, and driving them into the maw of a dragon
spouting flames--the demons with goats' beards and crescent-shaped jaws
seizing hapless sinners who have wandered to the mouldings of the arch,
are all very skilfully arranged, in well composed groups round the
principal figure; but the Satanic vineyard lacks breadth and its fruit
is insipid. The preying demons are not ferocious enough, they almost
look as if they were monks and were doing it for fun, while the damned
take it very calmly.

"How far more desperate is the devil's festival at Dijon!" Durtal
recalled to mind the church of Notre Dame in that city, so strange a
specimen of thirteenth-century goth