ht that surrounds them,
proceeding from their own sanctity and represented in the
stained-glass windows.]

[Footnote 2: querubines. Read Dante's description of the heavenly
hierarchy in canto XXVIII of the _Paradiso_. See also p. 47, note
1.]

[Footnote 3: Nuestra Senora de Monserrat = 'Our Lady of Montserrat,'
the Virgin as venerated in the famous monastery of this name. "The
monastery owes its foundation to the miraculous image of the Virgin,
the handiwork of Luke the Apostle, which was brought to Barcelona in
the year of our Lord 50, by St. Peter himself. At the time of the
Moorish invasion, in 717, the Goths hid it in the hill, where it
remained until 880, when Some shepherds were attracted to the spot
by heavenly lightd, etc., whereupon Gondemar Bishop of Vique (guided
also by a _sweet smell_) found the image in a cave. Accompanied by
his clergy, the good bishop set out on his return to Manresa
carrying the holy image with him, but on reaching a certain spot the
Virgin obstinately refused to proceed farther; thereupon a small
chapel was built over her, where she remained 160 years. The spot
where the image first refused to move is still marked by a cross
with an appropriate inscription.... A chapel where the image now
rests was founded in 1592, and later opened by Philip II in person."
Ford, _Handbook for Travellers in Spain_. The monastery is one of
the most picturesquely situated in all Christendom. It stands high
up upon the jagged mountain _Mons Serratus_, or Montserrat, which
gives to the monastery its name. See p. 54, note 2.]

[Footnote 4: Compare--

And at that center, with their wings expanded,
More than a thousand jubilant Angels saw I,
Each differing in effolgence and in kind.

I saw there at their sports and at their songs
A Beauty[*] smiling, which the gladness was
Within the eyes of all the other saints;

And if I had in speaking as much wealth
As in imagining, I should not dare
To attempt the smallest part of its delight.

[Footnote *: The Virgin]

_Dante's Paradiso, canto XXXI, Longfellow's Translation._]

Mas alla el paraiso de los justos, mas alla el trono donde se asienta
la Virgen Maria.[1] El animo de Teobaldo se sobrecogio temeroso, y un
hondo pavor se apodero de su alma. La eterna soledad, el eterno
silencio viven en aquellas regiones, que conducen al mister