Symbols &amp; Iconography of the Saints

A child being blessed by saint columbanus

1 saint

Saint Burgundofara

A globe of fire hovering over his tomb

1 saint

A group of women and children holding palms of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint Palladia

A man by a tree with a hive of bees in the trunk, a sow with her litter underneath it, and a crow who had made a nest in the branches (a tree with three types of fruit)

1 saint

A man kneeling in prayer so long that his knees have left dents in the stone

1 saint

A man saying the rosary in bed with his wife

1 saint

Saint Ammon The Great

A papier-mâché, wooden or other sculpture of a camel was carried through the streets of béziers as part of the procession on his feast day

1 saint

Saint William of Eskilsoe

A torch lighting itself by touching his grave

1 saint

A tree in her garden suddenly produced a full crop of them)

1 saint

Abbess holding a model of ely cathedral

1 saint

Saint Etheldreda

Abbess holding three ears of corn

1 saint

Abbess in brigittine robes with a cross on her forehead, and holding a book and pilgrim‘s staff

1 saint

Abbess praying before an altar

1 saint

Abbess with a crown holding a staff which is budding

1 saint

Saint Etheldreda

Abbess with a ring around her neck standing near the fountain

1 saint

Abbess with an ear of corn

1 saint

Saint Burgundofara

Abbess with angels holding a crown over her

1 saint

Abbess with her hand on an altar

1 saint

Saint Brigid of Ireland

Abbess with mice at her feet

1 saint

Abbess with mice running up her cloak

1 saint

Abbess with mice running up her pastoral staff

1 saint

Abbess within a family tree of the kings of england

1 saint

Abbess, usually holding a lamp or candle, often with a cow nearby

1 saint

Saint Brigid of Ireland

Abbot blessing a bear, which brings him a log of wood

1 saint

Saint Gall

Abbot carrying a ladder

1 saint

Saint John Climacus

Abbot celebrating mass with purgatory open at his side

1 saint

Saint Odilo of Cluny

Abbot combating moors

1 saint

Abbot digging a garden with his crown lying nearby

1 saint

Saint Theodosius The Cenobiarch

Abbot driving away the devil with a rod

1 saint

Saint John of Pulsano

Abbot giving alms to the poor

1 saint

Saint Gregory of Utrecht

Abbot hermit with iron bands on his neck and arms, chains and a money bag near him

1 saint

Abbot holding a book

1 saint

Saint Aelred of Rievaulx

Abbot holding a book and fleur-de-lys, surrounded by fleur-de-lys

1 saint

Saint Ursicinus of Saintursanne

Abbot holding a chalice and staff

1 saint

Saint Tillo of Solignac

Abbot holding a church in his hand

1 saint

Saint Botulph of Ikanhoe

Abbot holding a church, representing his work founding cistercian houses

1 saint

Saint Robert of Newminster

Abbot holding a lit lamp

1 saint

Saint Madron of Cornwall

Abbot holding a monastery in his hand

1 saint

Saint Botulph of Ikanhoe

Abbot holding a scroll

1 saint

Saint Aelred of Rievaulx

Abbot holding a stone, to whom an angel brings a fish

1 saint

Saint Comgall of Bangor

Abbot holding chain, fetters or a lock

1 saint

Saint Leonard of Noblac

Abbot in a library with monks

1 saint

Saint Acca of Hexham

Abbot in a tomb with staff and crucifix

1 saint

Saint Severinus of Noricum

Abbot in an ecstastic trance

1 saint

Saint Fridolin of Säckingen

Abbot in the same image as angels releasing souls from purgatory

1 saint

Saint Odilo of Cluny

Abbot leading a skeleton by the hand

1 saint

Abbot near a mill with his staff in hand

1 saint

Saint Attalas of Bobbio

Abbot near a wolf wearing a saddle

1 saint

Abbot on horse back

1 saint

Abbot raising a young nobleman from the dead

1 saint

Saint Winnoc of Wormhoult

Abbot surrounded by the seven virtues

1 saint

Saint Dominic of Silos

Abbot with a book

1 saint

Saint Ermin of Lobbes

Abbot with a crown and scepter at his feet, turning a hand-mill, often with a church and bridge nearby

1 saint

Abbot with a nearby chair

1 saint

Saint Attalas of Bobbio

Abbot with a sword

1 saint

Abbot with book and censer

1 saint

Abbot with crozier

1 saint

Saint Ethelred of Bardney

Abbot with royal regalia (crown, sceptre, etc.) at his feet

1 saint

Abbot with three lilies in his hand

1 saint

Saint Ursicinus of Saintursanne

Abbot‘s staff

1 saint

Saint Winebald of Heidenheim

Aged monk in desert

1 saint

Aged monk with bible

1 saint

Aged monk writing

1 saint

Saint John of God Saint Martin of Tours Saint Matilda of Saxony

Alabaster box of ointment

1 saint

Saint Mary Magdalen

Alms

3 saints

Alms box around his neck

1 saint

Saint John of God

Alms-box

1 saint

Saint Brieuc of Brittany

An angel carrying his soul to heaven

1 saint

Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem

An anvil upon which rests his chopped off hands and feet

1 saint

An old hermit clothed in skins and sporting a flowing beard

1 saint

Saint Abraham The Poor

An old jesuit with two hearts on his breast connected by rays of light to christ and the virgin

1 saint

Saint Alonso Rodriguez

An old man on a pillar holding a baby

1 saint

Saint Alypius Stylites

Anchor

1 saint

Anchor (an image of one was inscribed on her tomb)

1 saint

Saint Philomena

Anchor (miraculously freed when cast into the sea with an anchor bound to him)

1 saint

Pope Saint Clement I

Anchor (noted for being steadfast in hope and courage in spite of great sufferings)

1 saint

Angel

1 saint

Angel holding a pen or inkwell

1 saint

Angel holding an arm

1 saint

Angel protecting him from lightning

1 saint

Saint Aichardus of Jumièges

Angel touching monks with a staff

1 saint

Angels carrying him to heaven

1 saint

Annunciation abbess holding the hand of the christ-child who is himself holding a basket

1 saint

Annunciation abbess with a cross and rosary

1 saint

Annunciation abbess with basket of bread and cup of wine

1 saint

Anvil

1 saint

Apollo

1 saint

Apostle holding a book

1 saint

Apostle holding a scroll

1 saint

Apparently that’s where he started conducting mass

1 saint

Saint Francis of Assisi Saint Martin of Tours

Apparition of our lord

1 saint

Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Apparition of our saviour

2 saints

Apple

1 saint

Adam The Patriarch

Archbishop

1 saint

Archbishop baptizing king saint edwin

1 saint

Saint Paulinus of York

Archbishop being murdered in church

1 saint

Saint Engelbert of Cologne

Archbishop blessing his killers

1 saint

Archbishop calling down rain by his prayers

1 saint

Saint Heribert of Cologne

Archbishop carrying a primatial cross

1 saint

Saint Justus of Canterbury

Archbishop holding an inverted sword

1 saint

Archbishop kneeling before his murderers

1 saint

Archbishop making a vow before a statue of the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Saint Engelbert of Cologne

Archbishop with a crosier in one hand and an upraised sword, piercing a crescent moon, in the other

1 saint

Archbishop with a wounded head

1 saint

Archdeacon holding a staff and book, with birds on his shoulder

1 saint

Saint Theophilus The Penitent

Archdeacon making a pact with the devil from which he is rescued by the virgin

1 saint

Arm on an altar

1 saint

Armed man with a cross on his coronet, a banner with three eagles, and a model of the church of heiligenkreuz in his hand

1 saint

Saint Barsanuphius of Gaza

Armed with a sword, confronting the commander of a spanish force about to invade oria, italy

1 saint

Armor

1 saint

Saint George

Arrow

4 saints

Saint Edmund of East Anglia Saint Giles Saint Thomas The Apostle Saint Ursula

Arrows

3 saints

Saint Christina of Bolsena Saint Philomena Saint Sebastian

Asperges

1 saint

Saint Conrad of Constance

Asperges (exorcises evil spirits)

1 saint

At dinner with saint wolfgang

1 saint

At her betrothal to joachim

1 saint

At the bottom a ladder that reaches into heaven

1 saint

Saint Sadoth of Seleucia

At the grave of saint martin of tours (ambrose saw his burial in a vision)

1 saint

Augustinian giving bread to a sick person

1 saint

Augustinian holding a container of bread

1 saint

Augustinian holding a container of money

1 saint

Augustinian holding a lily

1 saint

Augustinian holding crucifix garlanded with lilies

1 saint

Augustinian with a star above him

1 saint

Augustinian with a star on his breast

1 saint

Saint Barnabas The Apostle Saint Boniface of Crediton Saint Hermengild Saint Justin Martyr Saint Trudpert of Münstertal

5 saints

Axe

5 saints

Saint Adrian of Nicomedia Saint Jude Thaddeus Saint Thomas More Saint Wiborada of Gall Saint Wolfgang of Ratisbon

379 symbols

Baby being dedicated by his parents at the foot of a cross

1 saint

Baby with bees on his mouth

1 saint

Bag

1 saint

Bag of coins

1 saint

Bag of money

1 saint

Baker’s peel

1 saint

Saint Aubert of Arras

Baker‘s peel or shovel

1 saint

Bald man with a beard wearing the robes of a bishop while holding a book, and with his heart pierced with thorns

1 saint

Saint Francis De Sales

Bald man with a beard wearing the robes of a bishop while holding a picture of the virgn mary

1 saint

Saint Francis De Sales

Bald man, often with a fringe of hair on the sides and a tuft on top

1 saint

Saint Amand of Maastricht Saint Felix of Valois Saint George Saint Maurice Saint Ursula

Ball and chain

1 saint

Saint Jerome Emiliani

Banner

6 saints

+1 more

Saint Amand of Maastricht Saint Felix of Valois Saint George Saint Maurice Saint Ursula Saint Wenceslaus of Bohemia

Banner with red cross on a white background

1 saint

Baptismal font

1 saint

Baptizing

1 saint

Baptizing king olaf of sweden

1 saint

Baptizing saint stephen of hungary

1 saint

Baptizing the eunuch of ethiopia

1 saint

Saint Philip The Deacon

Baptizing the son of king radbod

1 saint

Barefoot king with his hair in a fillet

1 saint

Bareheaded girl in armour with sword, lance and/or banner

1 saint

Saint Joan of Arc

Barrel

1 saint

Saint Peter The Farmer

Basket with bread rolls

1 saint

Baskets

1 saint

Bear

1 saint

Bearded bishop giving a blessing

1 saint

Saint Edmund of East Anglia

Bearded king with a sword and arrow

1 saint

Bearded layman with a stone mason‘s hammer

1 saint

Bearded man holding an oar

1 saint

Bearded man with a hoe lying under his feet

1 saint

Saint Rumold

Bearded man with two oxen near him

1 saint

Bearded monk in the midst of wolves holding a book and irish satchel

1 saint

Bearded monk taming a bear

1 saint

Bearded monk with sunbeams over his head

1 saint

Bearded old man holding a blanket containing small people representing the souls of all believers saved since his first reaction to god

1 saint

Bearded old man offering food to three angels

1 saint

Bearded warrior with a lance and tub

1 saint

Saint Ambrose of Milan Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Bearded, old man with a tau staff, bare feet, franciscan cincture, and small birds fluttering around him

1 saint

Saint Conrad of Piacenza

Beehive

2 saints

Beehive at his feet

1 saint

Saint Ambrose of Milan Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Isidore of Seville Saint John Chrysostom

Bees

4 saints

Beggar

1 saint

Saint Alexis Falconieri

Beggar in a tri-cornered hat sharing his alms

1 saint

Saint Benedict Joseph Labre

Beggar revealing his identity to his parents on his death bed

1 saint

Saint John Calabytes

Beggar with a gospel in his hand

1 saint

Saint John Calabytes

Beheaded

1 saint

Beheaded bishop carrying his severed head – the head sometimes wears its mitre, and there is often a vine growing over his neck

1 saint

Saint Denis of Paris

Beheaded woman carrying her head and a martyr‘s palm

1 saint

Beheaded woman with a block, axe, and her head at her feet

1 saint

Being beheaded by a sword

1 saint

Saint Martina of Rome

Being beheaded by the king

1 saint

Being brought a palm of martyrdom by an angel

1 saint

Saint Eurosia

Being carried by angels

1 saint

Saint Brigid of Fiesole

Being carried to heaven by the angels

1 saint

Being crowned with thorns by an angel

1 saint

Saint Abundantia of Spoleto

Being dragged by her hair from a convent

1 saint

Saint Agnes of Assisi

Being given a golden apple by the infant jesus who is reaching out of an image of the madonna and child

1 saint

Being healed by saint peter the apostle

1 saint

Being invited by our lord to receive holy communion

1 saint

Saint Angela of Foligno

Being killed by her father

1 saint

Being martyred with the three companions

1 saint

Saint Romulus of Fiesole

Being murdered at an altar

1 saint

Pope Saint Stephen I

Being murdered at the altar

1 saint

Saint Mechtildis of Edelstetten

Being murdered with saint aureus of mainz

1 saint

Saint Justina of Mainz

Being received with great celebration at the edelstetten abbey

1 saint

Being saved from drowning by saint maurus

1 saint

Saint Placid

Being sheltered from rain by an eagle or other large bird

1 saint

Saint Benedict of Nursia Saint Francis Xavier Saint Kentigern

Being supported by angels while jesus descends from the cross to heal him

1 saint

Saint Peregrine Laziosi

Bell

3 saints

Bell (exorcises evil spirits)

1 saint

Saint Elizabeth of Schönau

Benedctine nun with a book

1 saint

Benedictine abbess with a book (indicative of her scriptural knowledge), a clock, and lightning (which she once miraculously turned aside)

1 saint

Saint Lioba of Bischofsheim

Benedictine abbess with chalice and wafers

1 saint

Saint Mechtildis of Edelstetten

Benedictine abbot dressed as a bishop standing by the tyne with two monasteries nearby

1 saint

Saint Benedict Biscop

Benedictine abbot holding a barrel in his hand

1 saint

Saint Othmar of Saint Gall

Benedictine abbot receiving royal envoys

1 saint

Saint Armagillus of Brittany

Benedictine abbot with a skull and crossbones at his feet

1 saint

Saint Odilo of Cluny

Benedictine abbot with supernatural fire near him

1 saint

Saint Benedict of Aniane

Benedictine giving alms or food to the poor, often from a basket

1 saint

Benedictine hermit or monk or abbot near a well with a dragon on a chain

1 saint

Saint Jean of Réomay

Benedictine monk accompanied by a hind

1 saint

Benedictine monk admonishing an evil-doer

1 saint

Saint Antoninus of Sorrento

Benedictine monk holding a standard on a city wall

1 saint

Benedictine monk holding an abbot‘s staff, a missioner‘s cross, and wearing the sun on his chest

1 saint

Benedictine monk with a missioner‘s cross with a bear nearby

1 saint

Benedictine nun accompanied by a hart, usually white

1 saint

Saint Mildred of Thanet

Benedictine nun holding a book and axe

1 saint

Saint Wiborada of Gall

Benedictine nun holding a book and with one hand raised

1 saint

Saint Edith of Wilton

Benedictine nun holding a church

1 saint

Saint Mildred of Thanet

Benedictine nun holding a lily

1 saint

Benedictine nun with an ox

1 saint

Saint Frideswide

Benedictine nun with three geese

1 saint

Saint Mildred of Thanet

Benedictine with gardening tools and a cross

1 saint

Saint Joseph Saint Vincent Ferrer

Benedictine with sheep

1 saint

Saint Drogo

Bible

2 saints

Bird

1 saint

Saint Colette Saint Francis of Assisi Saint Gall Saint José De Anchieta Saint Valentine of Rome

Birds

5 saints

Bishop

2 saints

Saint Luke The Evangelist Saint Mawes

Bishop accompanied by swans and otters

1 saint

Saint Athanasius of Alexandria

Bishop arguing with a pagan

1 saint

Bishop at the altar being murdered by huns

1 saint

Saint Aureus of Mainz

Bishop baptizing a king

1 saint

Saint Augustine of Canterbury

Bishop baptizing saint odilia of alsace

1 saint

Saint Erhard of Regensburg

Bishop beheaded with sword

1 saint

Bishop being beheaded

1 saint

Saint Stanislaus of Cracow

Bishop being given a cathedral and a palm of martyrdom by the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Saint Bellinus of Padua

Bishop being hacked to pieces at the foot of an altar

1 saint

Bishop being murdered at mass with young king saint eric

1 saint

Saint Henry of Uppsala

Bishop being murdered by a man wielding an axe

1 saint

Saint Henry of Uppsala

Bishop being murdered with two priests bishop holding a crozier and sword bishop holding a large sword and standing between two priests with saint colman and and saint totnan

1 saint

Saint Frederick of Utrecht

Bishop being presented to pope sixtus iii by saint peter the apostle and saint apollinaris of ravenna

1 saint

Saint Peter Chrysologus

Bishop being stabbed by two men

1 saint

Bishop blessing a burning castle

1 saint

Saint Zenobius of Florence

Bishop bringing a child or man back to life

1 saint

Bishop calming a storm

1 saint

Saint Germanus of Auxerre

Bishop carrying a knife

1 saint

Bishop carrying his eyes

1 saint

Saint Trophimus of Arles

Bishop carrying his severed head

1 saint

Bishop carrying one or two large keys

1 saint

Saint Bellinus of Padua

Bishop carrying small stones on a book

1 saint

Bishop carrying the head of saint john the baptist and a bunch of grapes (refers to a legend about a vision he received)

1 saint

Saint Gratus of Aosta

Bishop carrying three loaves of bread (misrepresentation of the heads)

1 saint

Bishop carrying three severed heads

1 saint

Bishop celebrating mass as an angel brings him a scroll

1 saint

Bishop delivering a blessing while a devil flees from it

1 saint

Saint Ubaldus Baldassini

Bishop destroying a statue of apollo

1 saint

Bishop distributing alms

1 saint

Saint Gerald of Beziers

Bishop distributing alms to the poor

1 saint

Saint Saturninus of Toulouse

Bishop dragged by a bull

1 saint

Bishop drawing water from a rock with his mitre nearby

1 saint

Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus

Bishop driving a devil before him

1 saint

Saint Melaine of Rennes

Bishop driving demons out of a temple

1 saint

Bishop driving snakes before him

1 saint

Bishop encountering the spirit of his dead sister

1 saint

Bishop enthroned between two deacons

1 saint

Saint Syrus of Pavia

Bishop freeing a poisoned well from a dragon

1 saint

Saint John The Almoner Saint Paulinus of Nola Saint Thomas of Villanova

Bishop giving a blessing as angels carry his crozier

1 saint

Saint Ubaldus Baldassini

Bishop giving alms to a crippled man

1 saint

Saint John The Almoner

Bishop giving alms to the poor

3 saints

Bishop having his eyes put out

1 saint

Saint Trophimus of Arles

Bishop having his hands cut off

1 saint

Saint Sabino of Spoleto

Bishop healing a boy‘s eyes

1 saint

Saint Apollinaris of Ravenna

Bishop healing three men dying of fever

1 saint

Bishop hoeing a piece of ground

1 saint

Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem

Bishop holding a blossoming thistle

1 saint

Bishop holding a book

1 saint

Bishop holding a cathedral

1 saint

Saint Conrad of Constance

Bishop holding a chalice

1 saint

Saint Juvenal of Narni

Bishop holding a chalice with a spider above or in it

1 saint

Bishop holding a church

3 saints

Saint Ambrose of Milan Saint Petroc Saint Virgilius of Salzburg

Bishop holding a church and a book

1 saint

Saint Hermagorus of Aquileia

Bishop holding a crozier and palm (indicative of his office and martyrdom)

1 saint

Bishop holding a crozier and sword

1 saint

Bishop holding a dish

1 saint

Saint Peter Chrysologus

Bishop holding a fish

1 saint

Saint Leodegarius of Autun

Bishop holding a fish and a key

1 saint

Saint Egwin of Worcester

Bishop holding a fish with keys in its mouth

1 saint

Saint Benno of Meissen

Bishop holding a fishing rod

1 saint

Saint Zeno of Verona

Bishop holding a gimlet

1 saint

Bishop holding a gospel

1 saint

Saint Leodegarius of Autun

Bishop holding a hook with two prongs

1 saint

Bishop holding a jewelled cross

1 saint

Saint Maximian of Ravenna

Bishop holding a key and accompanied by an angel meeting burghers at a city gate

1 saint

Bishop holding a key in one hand while placing his crozier on a dragon

1 saint

Bishop holding a large sword and standing between two priests

1 saint

Bishop holding a mirror in which the virgin mary is reflected

1 saint

Bishop holding a model of gubbio

1 saint

Saint Ubaldus Baldassini

Bishop holding a pen while surrounded by a swarm of bees

1 saint

Bishop holding a roasting spit

1 saint

Saint Quentin

Bishop holding a scroll

1 saint

Saint Maximilian of Celeia

Bishop holding a shoe

1 saint

Saint Vigilius of Trent

Bishop holding a staff and following his own funeral procession

1 saint

Saint Regulus of Rheims

Bishop holding a sword and book

1 saint

Bishop holding a sword and crucifix

1 saint

Saint Maximilian of Celeia

Bishop holding a sword and his severed head

1 saint

Saint Nicasius of Rheims

Bishop holding a triple cross with grapes on a missal nearby

1 saint

Saint Urban of Langres

Bishop holding a wheel outlined in candles

1 saint

Saint Donatian of Rheims

Bishop holding an axe

1 saint

Saint Alphege of Winchester

Bishop holding an open book

1 saint

Saint Athanasius of Alexandria

Bishop holding chains

1 saint

Saint Paulinus of Nola

Bishop holding his severed head in his hands

1 saint

Saint Leo of Rouen

Bishop holding his tongue with a pair of tongs

1 saint

Saint Livinus

Bishop holding lichfield cathedral and a branch, usually a vine

1 saint

Bishop holding manacles

1 saint

Saint Paulinus of Nola

Bishop holding the cathedral in the midst of a battlefield with the dead surrounding him

1 saint

Bishop holding the cathedral of cashel, ireland

1 saint

Saint Ailbe of Emly

Bishop holding the cathedral of trier

1 saint

Bishop holding the city or cathedral of split, croatia

1 saint

Saint Duje

Bishop holding the crowned head of saint oswald

1 saint

Bishop holding the town of san gimignano

1 saint

Bishop holding three bags of gold

1 saint

Bishop holding three balls

1 saint

Bishop holding two arrows

1 saint

Bishop in a cave with his parishioners

1 saint

Saint Acca of Hexham Saint Aldhelm of Sherborne

Bishop in a library

2 saints

Bishop in a small chariot, which he used for travelling his diocese

1 saint

Saint Erconwald of London

Bishop in his episcopal robes holding the cathedral he built

1 saint

Saint Aldebrandus of Fossombrone

Bishop kneeling at an altar with an angel whispering to him

1 saint

Saint Amabilis of Auvergne

Bishop listening to an angel playing music

1 saint

Bishop making a bear carry his luggage because it has eaten his mule

1 saint

Saint Bernward of Hildesheim

Bishop making a chalice with a goldsmith‘s hammer

1 saint

Bishop making baskets with his mitre and crozier laying nearby

1 saint

Saint Julian of Cuenca

Bishop menaced by devils

1 saint

Bishop near a child that holds a book

1 saint

Saint Natalis of Milan

Bishop on a throne decorated with lions

1 saint

Bishop on horseback, raising his crozier at a dragon

1 saint

Bishop on lérins with a phoenix nearby

1 saint

Bishop overseeing construction of a church

1 saint

Bishop overturning idols

1 saint

Saint Willehad of Bremen

Bishop performing a wedding

1 saint

Saint Frederick of Utrecht

Bishop pierced by two swords

1 saint

Bishop pointing at a roe

1 saint

Saint Maximus of Turin

Bishop preaching to pagans

1 saint

Saint Valentine of Passau

Bishop raising to life a goose which a wolf has brought to him

1 saint

Bishop raking a piece of ground

1 saint

Saint Gebhard of Constance

Bishop reaching his staff to a lame man

1 saint

Bishop reading desk where nearby sits a shield with three wooden shoes

1 saint

Bishop reciting his breviary

1 saint

Bishop refusing to adore an idol

1 saint

Bishop saving monks from a burning monastery

1 saint

Bishop scattering seed, emblematic of spreading the faith

1 saint

Saint Fructuosus of Tarragona

Bishop singing on a funeral pyre

1 saint

Bishop stabbed with a dagger

1 saint

Bishop stabbed with a sword or knife

1 saint

Saint Armentarius of Antibes

Bishop stabbing, beating or pinning down a dragon with his crosier

1 saint

Bishop standing amidst bell–founders

1 saint

Saint Fortchern of Trim

Bishop standing near a beehive

1 saint

Saint Athanasius of Alexandria

Bishop standing on a devil

1 saint

Saint Melaine of Rennes

Bishop standing over a defeated heretic

1 saint

Bishop standing with lions

1 saint

Saint Trophimus of Arles

Bishop surrounded by lions

1 saint

Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Bishop telling the frogs to keep silence while he preaches

1 saint

Saint Regulus of Rheims

Bishop tending to sick people

1 saint

Saint Germanus of Auxerre

Bishop trampling a basilisk (symbol of arianism) underfoot

1 saint

Saint Syrus of Pavia

Bishop trampling on a judge

1 saint

Bishop trampling on heretics

1 saint

Saint Optatus of Milevis

Bishop trampling on snakes

1 saint

Bishop using his stole as a leash on a dragon

1 saint

Saint Tudwal of Tréguier

Bishop washing the feet of the poor

1 saint

Saint Radbod of Utrecht

Bishop wearing a coat of mail under his cope

1 saint

Bishop wearing a cord around his neck

1 saint

Saint Corbinian Saint Maximinus of Trier

Bishop with a bear

2 saints

Bishop with a bear and mule in the background

1 saint

Bishop with a bear licking his feet

1 saint

Saint Cunibert of Cologne

Bishop with a bird (usually a dove or pigeon), often speaking in his ear or leading him somewhere

1 saint

Bishop with a book

1 saint

Saint Maurus of Bisceglia

Bishop with a book and razor (refers to his tonsure)

1 saint

Saint Landericus of Soignies

Bishop with a book on which lays a fish and two keys

1 saint

Saint Benno of Meissen

Bishop with a book on which sit two eyes

1 saint

Saint Erhard of Regensburg

Bishop with a book with a wine vessel on it

1 saint

Saint Urban of Langres

Bishop with a book, codex or scroll

1 saint

Bishop with a boy holding a ball

1 saint

Saint Mansuetus of Toul

Bishop with a broken glass

1 saint

Saint Saturninus of Toulouse

Bishop with a bull at his feet

1 saint

Bishop with a bunch of grapes or a vine at his side

1 saint

Saint Urban of Langres

Bishop with a camel, indicating his origin in the north african deserts, and confusing his story with the other aphrodosius

1 saint

Bishop with a casket of relics of saint firminus of amiens

1 saint

Bishop with a chalice and dragon at his feet

1 saint

Bishop with a chalice on its side at his feet because he once dropped the chalice during a mass and nothing spilled from it

1 saint

Saint Vicelin of Oldenburg

Bishop with a church sitting on his left arm

1 saint

Bishop with a crippled or epileptic child at his feet

1 saint

Bishop with a crosier in his right hand, on the open palm of his left a miniature church of chased gold

1 saint

Bishop with a crown at his feet

1 saint

Bishop with a demon

1 saint

Saint Eucharius of Trier Saint Otto of Bamberg

Bishop with a dog

2 saints

Bishop with a dog at his feet

1 saint

Saint Bellinus of Padua

Bishop with a dragon

1 saint

Bishop with a dragon leashed with a clerical stole

1 saint

Saint Paul Aurelian

Bishop with a finger to his lips

1 saint

Saint John The Silent

Bishop with a fish tied to his crozier

1 saint

Saint Zeno of Verona

Bishop with a fish with a ring in its mouth

1 saint

Saint Virgilius of Salzburg

Bishop with a fountain springing from his tears

1 saint

Saint Regulus of Rheims

Bishop with a globe

1 saint

Bishop with a goose or geese

1 saint

Bishop with a hammer, anvil, and horseshoe

1 saint

Bishop with a horse

1 saint

Saint Severus of Avranches

Bishop with a horse nearby

1 saint

Bishop with a hound and hunting horn

1 saint

Bishop with a knife or sword in his hand

1 saint

Saint Lambertus of Freising

Bishop with a lamb at his feet (refers to his name)

1 saint

Bishop with a large host

1 saint

Bishop with a mash rake (a beer brewing tool)

1 saint

Saint Severus of Barcelona

Bishop with a missionary‘s cross

1 saint

Saint Rumold

Bishop with a nail or nails driven into his head

1 saint

Bishop with a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint Magnus of Anagni

Bishop with a peacock

1 saint

Saint Narcissus of Jerusalem

Bishop with a pitcher of water

1 saint

Bishop with a purse

1 saint

Saint Virgilius of Salzburg

Bishop with a rooster nearby

1 saint

Saint Gebhard of Constance

Bishop with a skull wearing a papal tiara near him or on a book

1 saint

Bishop with a stag

1 saint

Saint Petroc

Bishop with a stag with a crucifix

1 saint

Bishop with a swan

1 saint

Bishop with a swan on either side

1 saint

Saint Abraham of Abela Saint Stanislaus of Cracow

Bishop with a sword

2 saints

Bishop with a sword and dragon

1 saint

Saint Alphege of Winchester

Bishop with a sword in his mouth

1 saint

Saint Juvenal of Narni

Bishop with a wheel, a symbol of his father‘s trade, and an emblem he had chosen for his coat of arms

1 saint

Saint Willigis of Mainz

Bishop with a wolf

1 saint

Saint Petroc

Bishop with an arrow broken above his breast

1 saint

Saint Romulus of Fiesole

Bishop with an axe and tree

1 saint

Saint Amator of Auxerre

Bishop with an axe in his head

1 saint

Bishop with chalice and abbot‘s staff

1 saint

Saint Cedd

Bishop with crozier and book

1 saint

Saint Ninian

Bishop with crozier and papal pallium

1 saint

Bishop with duke grimoald at his feet

1 saint

Saint Maximian of Ravenna

Bishop with emperor justinian

1 saint

Bishop with globes and mathematical books

1 saint

Saint Anatolius of Alexandria

Bishop with gray hair and a long, tapering gray beard

1 saint

Bishop with hereford cathedral

1 saint

Saint Thomas of Hereford

Bishop with his chin on his chest

1 saint

Bishop with his tongue being torn out

1 saint

Saint Livinus

Bishop with lightning flashing near him

1 saint

Saint Gratus of Aosta

Bishop with loaves of bread

1 saint

Saint Aubert of Arras

Bishop with no hands preaching

1 saint

Saint Sabino of Spoleto

Bishop with pallium

1 saint

Saint Gebhard of Constance

Bishop with the blessed virgin mary appearing to him

1 saint

Bishop with the coat of arms of brabant

1 saint

Saint Macarius of Antioch

Bishop with three arrowheads

1 saint

Bishop with three children

1 saint

Bishop with three children in a tub at his feet

1 saint

Bishop with three hosts on a baker‘s shovel

1 saint

Bishop with three rings on his right hand

1 saint

Saint Felix of Burgundy

Bishop with three stones

1 saint

Saint Eskil

Bishop with three swords

1 saint

Bishop with three wooden shoes

1 saint

Bishop with venus

1 saint

Black dog (the form a demon took upon being driven out)

1 saint

Saint Kevin of Glendalough

Blackbirds

1 saint

Blessed virgin mary holding the child jesus, representing his advocacy of the doctrine of mary as mother of god

1 saint

Saint Cyril of Alexandria

Blessing the chalice of the mass with his hands cut off

1 saint

Saint Bruno of Querfort

Blind cistercian abbess

1 saint

Blind man being led by a wolf

1 saint

Saint Hervé

Blind or blindfolded bishop

1 saint

Saint Sabino of Spoleto

Blue field with undulating silver lines superimposed with an inverted gold chevron with a gold cross at its point (his coat of arms)

1 saint

Saint Botulph of Ikanhoe

Blue t on his shoulder

1 saint

Saint Jude Thaddeus Saint Simon The Apostle Saint Torpes of Pisa

Boat

3 saints

Boat hook

1 saint

Boiled in oil

1 saint

Bones, referring to the relics of saint gervase and saint protase which were revealed to him in a vision

1 saint

Saint Anthony of Padua Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Boniface of Crediton Saint Bridget of Sweden Saint Florinus of Remüs

Book

14 saints

+9 more

Saint Anthony of Padua Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Boniface of Crediton Saint Bridget of Sweden Saint Florinus of Remüs Saint Ignatius of Loyola Saint John The Apostle Saint Jude Thaddeus Saint Luke The Evangelist Saint Paul The Apostle Saint Peter The Apostle Saint Raymond of Penyafort Saint Remigius of Rheims Saint Wiborada of Gall

Book (devotion to scripture and study)

1 saint

Book of gospels

1 saint

Book stabbed with a sword

1 saint

Saint Cyril of Alexandria

Book, pen or scroll, indicative of his work as a writer

1 saint

Books

1 saint

Bound maiden standing on a funeral pyre with an angel

1 saint

Saint Cosmas Saint Damian

Box of ointment

2 saints

Boy bishop

1 saint

Saint Louis of Toulouse

Boy carrying a large stone on his shoulder

1 saint

Saint Benezet The Bridge Builder

Boy defeating a dragon (emblematic of chasing out devils and evil)

1 saint

Boy in a boat

1 saint

Boy in royal robes holding a lily

1 saint

Saint Kenelm

Boy king trampling his disloyal sister

1 saint

Saint Kenelm

Boy receiving a crown of flowers from an angel (referring to his end as a martyr)

1 saint

Boy with a millstone

1 saint

Saint Bibiana Saint Bruno Saint Christopher Saint Joseph

Branch

4 saints

Bread

4 saints

Saint Anthony of Padua Saint Giovanni Theristi Saint Roch Saint Verena of Zurich

Bread (from feeding the people)

1 saint

Breasts on a dish

1 saint

Saint Bartholomew The Apostle

Bright red (skinless) man holding his own skin

1 saint

Brigittine abbess with a hind at her side

1 saint

Brigittine being brought communion on her death bed

1 saint

Brigittine dressing a poor man’s wounds

1 saint

Brigittine holding a lily

1 saint

Broken cup

1 saint

Broken cup and serpent representing poison

1 saint

Broken utensil

1 saint

Broom

1 saint

Saint Martin De Porres

Broom (referring to being a home maker)

1 saint

Brush (refers to the tradition that he was a painter)

1 saint

Saint Blandina The Slave Saint Eustachius Saint Felicity of Carthage Saint Victor Maurus

Buckler

1 saint

Saint George

Builder’s rule

1 saint

Saint Thomas The Apostle

Bull

4 saints

Bull, cross and mitre

1 saint

Saint Saturninus of Toulouse

Burgundian knight with a fountain springing under his sword

1 saint

Saint Gengulphus of Burgundy

Burned at the stake

1 saint

Bush

1 saint

Butcher

1 saint

Saint Aidan of Lindesfarne

173 symbols

Calming a storm

1 saint

Candle

2 saints

Saint Blaise Saint Genevieve

Cannon ball and sword (referring to prisoners of war he ransomed)

3 saints

Saint Felix of Valois Saint John of Matha Saint Vincent De Paul

Cannon, its attack being reminiscent of the lightning that struck her father

1 saint

Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio

Capuchin carrying a beggar‘s wallet

1 saint

Saint Felix of Cantalice

Capuchin holding the infant jesus in his arms

1 saint

Saint Felix of Cantalice

Cardinal bearing a whip in his hand

1 saint

Saint Peter Damian

Cardinal in franciscan robes, usually reading or writing

1 saint

Cardinal wearing a cord around his neck

1 saint

Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio Saint Vincent Ferrer

Cardinal with an axe nearby

1 saint

Saint John Fisher

Cardinal with his hat at his feet

1 saint

Saint John Fisher

Cardinal with worn, haggard features

1 saint

Saint John Fisher

Cardinal‘s hat

2 saints

Cardinal‘s hat, often on the ground or behind him, indicating that he turned his back on the pomp of ecclesiastical life

1 saint

Carmelite friar holding a scapular

1 saint

Carmelite friar receiving the scapular from the blessed virgin

1 saint

Carmelite friar surrounded by and praying for souls in purgatory

1 saint

Carmelite holding a church

1 saint

Saint Agabus The Prophet

Carmelite nun holding a pierced heart, book and crucifix

1 saint

Carmelite nun receiving a message from a dove

1 saint

Carmelite nun with book and quill

1 saint

Carmelite nun with her heart pierced by an arrow held by an angel

1 saint

Carmelite with a knife in his head

1 saint

Carmelite with a sword in his breast, holding a book, palm, and three crowns

1 saint

Carmelite with an angel bringing him three crowns

1 saint

Carmelite with lilies and roses falling from his mouth, indicative of his eloquence

1 saint

Carpenter’s rule

1 saint

Carpenter‘s square

1 saint

Carpenter‘s tools

1 saint

Carried by demons (his defeat of worldly things and temptation)

1 saint

Carrying a church on his shoulders or in his hands

1 saint

Saint Winwallus

Carrying a church to indicate having built one

1 saint

Saint Ida of Herzfeld

Carrying a cross

1 saint

Saint Simon of Cyrene

Carrying a lantern

1 saint

Carrying a leper through a river

1 saint

Saint Edward The Confessor

Carrying a loaf and a pilgrim‘s staff

1 saint

Saint Gall

Carrying a model of böddeken monastery

1 saint

Saint Meinulph

Carrying a scroll or book, referring to his influential writings

1 saint

Saint Basil The Great

Carrying a sick man on his shoulders

1 saint

Carrying a sword and palm with a spring of water at her feet

1 saint

Carrying fire in his bare hands (symbolic of controlled his lusts without them harming him)

1 saint

Carrying hot coals in his vestment for incense

1 saint

Carrying pilgrim‘s staff and a church

1 saint

Saint Alphege of Winchester

Carrying sacred vessels

1 saint

Saint Acacius of Amida

Carrying stones in his chasuble

1 saint

Carthusian monk carrying a noose

1 saint

Saint John Houghton

Carthusian surrounded by seven stars

1 saint

Carthusian with a rope around his neck and holding his heart in his hand

1 saint

Saint John Houghton

Carthusian with a swan

1 saint

Catapult, its attack being reminiscent of the lightning that struck her father

1 saint

Saint Caedmon Saint Genevieve

Cattle

2 saints

Cattle (refers to the cattle shed where she was buried)

1 saint

Saint Cunera

Cauldron

1 saint

Saint John The Apostle

Causing a spring to gush forth

1 saint

Saint Guénhaël

Cave

1 saint

Celtic bishop with long hair, a beard, and a dove perched on his shoulder

1 saint

Celtic maiden holding a sword with a fountain at her feet, and red ring around her neck where her head has been severed and restored

1 saint

Censer

1 saint

Centaur

1 saint

Centurion

1 saint

Saint Leonard of Noblac Saint Vicinius of Sarsina

Chain

2 saints

Chaining the devil

1 saint

Saint Angela of Foligno

Chains

2 saints

Saint Balbina of Rome Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Chains at his feet

1 saint

Saint Amand of Maastricht

Chains, referring to prisoners and slaves

1 saint

Saint Dominic of Silos

Chair

1 saint

Chalice

7 saints

Saint Barbara Saint Bruno Saint Hugh of Lincoln Saint John The Apostle Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc

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Saint Barbara Saint Bruno Saint Hugh of Lincoln Saint John The Apostle Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc Saint Joseph Saint Thomas Aquinas

Chalice and serpent

1 saint

Chalice surmounted by a serpent

1 saint

Saint Louis Bertrand

Chalice with a serpent in allusion to the cup of sorrow foretold by jesus

1 saint

Saint John The Apostle

Chalice with the sacred host

1 saint

Changing the course of the river serchio

1 saint

Saint Alphonsus Maria De Liguori Saint Dominic De Guzman

Chaplet

2 saints

Chasing a bear out of a church (represents replacing a rough paganism with christianity)

1 saint

Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint Hilary of Poitiers

Chasuble

1 saint

Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Child

2 saints

Child being thrown to the ground or down a set of steps by a judge

1 saint

Saint Tremorus of Brittany

Child blowing bubbles

1 saint

Saint Joseph Barsabas

Child holding his own severed head and a palm branch of martyrdom

1 saint

Child holding loaves of bread

1 saint

Saint Joseph Barsabas

Child holding stones

1 saint

Saint Joseph Barsabas

Child thrown to the ground with a fountain springing from his blood

1 saint

Chrism

1 saint

Christ appearing to aleth as she receives viaticum

1 saint

Saint Aleth of Dijon

Christ child

1 saint

Saint Francis of Assisi

Christ-child in his arms

1 saint

Christ-child on a book

1 saint

Saint Amand of Maastricht Saint Oswald of Worcester Saint Wolfgang of Ratisbon

Chunk of limestone

1 saint

Saint Florinus of Remüs

Church

3 saints

Church with two towers in his hand

1 saint

Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio

Ciborium

1 saint

Cincture

1 saint

Saint Monica

Cistercian having a vision of mary

1 saint

Saint Waltheof of Melrose

Cistercian kneeling by a block of stone at sunrise

1 saint

Cistercian nun being blinded by the heart of jesus

1 saint

Cistercian to whom christ extends his hand from the cross

1 saint

Cistercian with a beehive

1 saint

Cistercian with a chained demon

1 saint

Cistercian with a mitre on the ground beside him

1 saint

Cistercian with a swarm of bees nearby

1 saint

Cistercian with a white dog

1 saint

Cistercian writing and watching mary

1 saint

Saint Denis of Paris Saint Rose of Lima

City

2 saints

Classical warrior leaning on a millstone, pouring water on a fire

1 saint

Clean-shaven young man with a palm of martyrdom and a white flag with a red cross

1 saint

Saint Edisto

Cleric arriving by ship with monks and baptizing a king

1 saint

Cleric carrying an infant

1 saint

Saint Vincent De Paul

Cleric curing the sick

1 saint

Saint Willibrord of Echternach

Cleric dipping his staff into a cask

1 saint

Cleric giving shoes to poor people

1 saint

Cleric striking water from a rock

1 saint

Cleric treading on a dragon

1 saint

Saint Brieuc of Brittany

Cleric with a young king nearby

1 saint

Saint Angela Merici Saint James The Greater Saint Raymond of Penyafort Saint Ursula

Cloak

4 saints

Clock

2 saints

Saint Kentigern Saint Ursula

Club

1 saint

Coat of arms bearing the word humilitas

1 saint

Saint Crispian Saint Crispin

Cobbler‘s last

2 saints

Cobweb

1 saint

Cock or rooster

1 saint

Cockle shell

1 saint

Coffin floating on a waterway

1 saint

Comb

1 saint

Converting saint wulfhald and saint rufinus who converted on finding him in chapel while they were hunting

1 saint

Cooking equipment

1 saint

Coptic double comb

1 saint

Saint John of God Saint Lucy of Syracuse

Coracle

1 saint

Saint Petroc

Cord

2 saints

Cornerstone

1 saint

Courtier

1 saint

Saint Felicity of Carthage Saint Perpetua

Cow

2 saints

Crippled woman holding a crucifix

1 saint

Crippled woman receiving a branch of roses from an angel

1 saint

Crippled woman receiving a lily from the angel

1 saint

Crippled woman with a cross and rosary

1 saint

Crocodile

1 saint

Saint Benedict of Nursia Saint Giles Saint Ruggero of Canne

Crosier

3 saints

Crosier with a battle-axe head at the top

1 saint

Saint Alexius of Rome Saint Ansanus The Baptizer Saint Bartholomew The Apostle Saint Catherine of Siena Saint Didacus of Alcalá

Cross

10 saints

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Saint Alexius of Rome Saint Ansanus The Baptizer Saint Bartholomew The Apostle Saint Catherine of Siena Saint Didacus of Alcalá Saint Helena of Constantinople Saint Joseph Saint Lawrence of Rome Saint Patrick Saint Solange of Bourges

Cross and olive branch

1 saint

Saint Thecla of Lentini

Cross and saw

1 saint

Saint Bruno Saint Helena of Constantinople Saint John The Baptist

Cross in hand

3 saints

Cross with two cross-bars

1 saint

Saint Norbert of Xanten

Crossing a red-hot furnace

1 saint

Saint Bruno of Querfort

Crown

14 saints

Saint Alkmund of Northumbria Saint Amalburga of Mauberge Saint Casimir of Poland Saint Catherine Del Ricci Saint Cecilia

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Saint Alkmund of Northumbria Saint Amalburga of Mauberge Saint Casimir of Poland Saint Catherine Del Ricci Saint Cecilia Saint Gertrude The Great Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc Saint Madrun Saint Matilda of Saxony Saint Onuphrius Saint Philomena Saint Sebastian Saint Walburga Saint Wenceslaus of Bohemia

Crown (emblematic of her high status)

1 saint

Saint Agatha of Sicily Saint Dorothy of Caesarea Saint Rose of Lima

Crown and sceptre at his feet

1 saint

Saint Casimir of Poland

Crown and sceptre by his side

1 saint

Saint Casimir of Poland

Crown of flowers

3 saints

Crown of roses

2 saints

Saint Dorothy of Caesarea Saint Rose of Lima

Crown of thorns

6 saints

Saint Agnes of Rome Saint Catherine of Siena Saint Francis De Sales Saint John of God Saint Louis XI

+1 more

Saint Agnes of Rome Saint Catherine of Siena Saint Francis De Sales Saint John of God Saint Louis XI Saint Theodore Stratelates

Crowned abbess giving alms with the christ child above her

1 saint

Saint Irmina of Oehren

Crowned and carrying a flower basket

1 saint

Crowned annunciation abbess

1 saint

Crowned maiden in chains

1 saint

Crowned nun often performing menial tasks or giving alms to the poor

1 saint

Saint Bathilde

Crowned with flowers and surrounded by stars as she kneels before the executioner

1 saint

Crowned with palm and flower basket, surrounded by stars

1 saint

Saint Victoria of Cordoba

Crowned with roses

1 saint

Crowned with thorns and embracing the cross

1 saint

Saint Veronica Giuliani

Crowned woman holding a cross and a small tower

1 saint

Saint Agrippina of Rome

Crowned woman holding a cross and a small tower that sits on a book

1 saint

Saint Agrippina of Rome

Crowned woman holding a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint Agrippina of Rome

Crozier

3 saints

Pope Saint Gregory The Great Saint Abercius Marcellus Saint Evasius of Asti

Crucifix

5 saints

Saint Alphonsus Maria De Liguori Saint Catherine Del Ricci Saint Eustachius Saint Francis Xavier Saint Martin De Porres

Crucifix garlanded with lilies

1 saint

Crucifix with leaves and flowers

1 saint

Saint Anthony The Abbot Saint Maurus

Crusader hermit with a bird nearby

1 saint

Saint Adjutor of Vernon

Crusader hermit with a chain nearby

1 saint

Saint Adjutor of Vernon

Crutch

2 saints

Crutch with a bell hanging from it

1 saint

Saint Edward The Confessor

Curing a leper

1 saint

Cutting down a tree

1 saint

107 symbols

Dark-bearded man holding a book

1 saint

Dark-bearded man holding a scroll

1 saint

Dark-bearded man holding a sword

1 saint

Dark-bearded man with a floppy pilgrim‘s hat, long staff, water bottle, and scallop shell

1 saint

Dates

1 saint

Deacon being torn by hooks

1 saint

Deacon carrying a pile of rocks

1 saint

Deacon conversing with angels

1 saint

Saint Opilio of Piacenza

Deacon holding a bag of money

1 saint

Deacon holding a book

1 saint

Deacon holding a ewer

1 saint

Deacon holding a gridiron

1 saint

Deacon holding a millstone

1 saint

Deacon holding a palm

1 saint

Saint Irenaeus of Chiusi

Deacon holding a towel and laver to indicate his service to his bishop

1 saint

Saint Daniel of Padua

Deacon holding several ewers and a book

1 saint

Deacon in a dalmatic holding a book and palm

1 saint

Saint Silvanus of Ahun

Deacon in prison

1 saint

Deacon or sub-deacon, holding in his hand a book and palm of martyrdom, his head pierced by a wooden knife

1 saint

Saint Andeolus of Smyrna

Deacon to saint gaudentius of rimini

1 saint

Deacon to saint leo the great

1 saint

Deacon with a raven

1 saint

Deacon with rocks gathered in his vestments

1 saint

Deacon with rocks on his head

1 saint

Deacon with rocks or a book at hand

1 saint

Deacon‘s vestments and thurible

1 saint

Deaconess holding a set of pincers which often holds a tooth

1 saint

Dead bishop on a sailing ship carrying his body upstream

1 saint

Saint Melaine of Rennes

Dead man on a millstone guarded by an eagle

1 saint

Dead man whose body is being protected by an eagle

1 saint

Dead man whose grave is being dug by a lion

1 saint

Dead monk being thrown into water

1 saint

Dead monk with ravens pursuing his murderers

1 saint

Dead monk with two ravens near him

1 saint

Dead priest laid in a ship

1 saint

Dead young woman being watched over by a dog

1 saint

Saint Dula The Slave

Death’s head

1 saint

Deceased deacon whose body is being defended by ravens

1 saint

Deer

1 saint

Saint Francis of Assisi

Deer, hind, doe, roe

1 saint

Saint Oswald of Worcester

Defeating, standing or chastising a dragon, referring to his personal fight with sin

1 saint

Saint Bernerio of Eboli

Demon

1 saint

Demons

1 saint

Saint Concordius of Spoleto

Destroying a pagan idol

1 saint

Destroying idols

1 saint

Discalced carmelite nun holding a bunch of roses

1 saint

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Dish

1 saint

Dishes

1 saint

Distaff

1 saint

Saint Benignus of Dijon Saint Roch Saint Vitus

Dog

3 saints

Dog, cat, bird, and mouse eating together from a same dish

1 saint

Saint Martin De Porres

Dolphin

1 saint

Saint Martinian The Hermit

Dominican abbess with a lamb, lily, and book

1 saint

Dominican beside the ocean, often holding or otherwise protecting a ship

1 saint

Dominican carrying a rosary and a tall cross

1 saint

Dominican catching fish with his bare hands

1 saint

Dominican holding a blue candle or a candle with a blue flame

1 saint

Dominican holding a knife

1 saint

Dominican holding a lily

1 saint

Saint Margaret of Hungary

Dominican holding a lily and a book

1 saint

Dominican holding an open book while preaching

1 saint

Dominican holding fire in his bare hands

1 saint

Dominican in a forest being stabbed

1 saint

Saint Margaret of Hungary

Dominican in prayer with a globe of fire over her head

1 saint

Dominican lying on his cloak which is spread over hot coals

1 saint

Dominican nun gazing at the cross with a lily at her feet

1 saint

Dominican nun holding a model of montepulciano, italy

1 saint

Dominican nun holding the christ child

1 saint

Dominican nun with saint catherine of siena

1 saint

Dominican nun with the virgin and child appearing to her

1 saint

Dominican preacher with a flame on his hand

1 saint

Dominican preacher with a flame on his head

1 saint

Dominican receiving the rosary from the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Dominican tertiary accompanied by the holy infant

1 saint

Dominican tertiary holding roses

1 saint

Saint Raymond of Penyafort

Dominican tertiary with a crucifix wound with roses

1 saint

Saint Zedislava Berka

Dominican using his cloak as a sail

1 saint

Dominican with a boat

1 saint

Dominican with a book

1 saint

Dominican with a cardinal‘s hat

1 saint

Dominican with a crucifix

1 saint

Dominican with a gash across his head

1 saint

Dominican with a knife in his shoulder

1 saint

Dominican with a knife splitting his head

1 saint

Dominican with a large knife in his head

1 saint

Dominican with a rope around his neck, sometimes holding a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint John of Cologne

Dominican with a torch

1 saint

Dominican with a trumpet nearby, often coming down from heaven, referring to his vision

1 saint

Dominican with an anchor

1 saint

Dominican with dog and globe

1 saint

Dominican with fire

1 saint

Dominican with his finger on his lips

1 saint

Dominican with star shining above his head

1 saint

Dominican with the sick who were healed at her tomb

1 saint

Dominican with the virgin mary and four female saints appearing to him

1 saint

Dominican with wings, referring to his vision as being an ‘angel of the apocalypse’

1 saint

Dominican writing credo in unum deum in the dust as he dies

1 saint

Door

1 saint

Pope Saint Fabian Pope Saint Gregory The Great Saint Ambrose of Milan Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint Caedmon

Dove

14 saints

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Pope Saint Fabian Pope Saint Gregory The Great Saint Ambrose of Milan Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint Caedmon Saint Columba of Sens Saint David of Wales Saint Devota Saint Findan of Rheinau Saint John Chrysostom Saint Oswald of Worcester Saint Remigius of Rheims Saint Reparata Saint Scholastica

Dove (his name is a variant of the word for dove)

1 saint

Saint Colman of Lindisfarne

Dove on a book

1 saint

Dove, usually speaking into his ear, sometimes as he writes

1 saint

Saint George Saint Godehard of Hildesheim Saint Hilary of Poitiers Saint Marcel of Paris Saint Margaret of Antioch

Dragon

7 saints

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Saint George Saint Godehard of Hildesheim Saint Hilary of Poitiers Saint Marcel of Paris Saint Margaret of Antioch Saint Martha of Bethany Saint Verano of Cavaillon

Driving snakes from lérins

1 saint

Drowning man

1 saint

Pope Saint Clement I

Duke hunting with a falcon or hawk on his wrist

1 saint

Dying man with a letter in his hand

1 saint

Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint John of The Cross Saint Juan Diego Saint Ruggero of Canne Saint Wenceslaus of Bohemia

39 symbols

Eagle

5 saints

Eagle by a river

1 saint

Saint Benedict of Szkalka

Eagle, representing his role as the evangelist who most concentrated on jesus’s divine nature

1 saint

Saint John The Apostle

Eagles

1 saint

Early christian maiden with a broom

1 saint

Early christian martyr with a club in his hand

1 saint

Early christian with a lighted taper

1 saint

Early female martyr being beaten with clubs

1 saint

Saint Valeria of Milan

Early martyr being beaten with clubs

1 saint

Saint Vitalis of Milan

Elderly bearded man holding a basket of loaves and a cross which is often t-shaped

1 saint

Saint Pancras of Taormina

Elderly bishop holding a cross in his right hand and a gospel in his left

1 saint

Elderly king offering a ring or coin to saint john who is disguised as a beggar

1 saint

Saint Edward The Confessor

Elderly man carrying a basket of doves and a staff

1 saint

Elderly man casting a devil from the idol of mars

1 saint

Elderly man crucified on a tall cross

1 saint

Saint Bartholomew The Apostle

Elderly man holding a tanner‘s knife and a human skin

1 saint

Elderly man holding loaves and fishes

1 saint

Elderly man in a carmelite habit in prayer

1 saint

Elderly man with a dragon nearby

1 saint

Elderly man with a loaf and book

1 saint

Elderly man with a snake nearby

1 saint

Elderly man with the child mary

1 saint

Saint Elizabeth of The Visitation

Elderly woman holding the infant john the baptist

1 saint

Elderly, bearded man wearing a hat with a scallop shell

1 saint

Saint Felicissimus of Perugia

Elegantly dressed young man with a book and a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Elizabethan houswife kneeling or standing on a heavy wooden door

1 saint

Saint Margaret Clitherow

Elizabethan nobleman with a greyhound

1 saint

Saint Philip Howard

Embers

1 saint

Embracing the child jesus

1 saint

Saint Adelaide of Burgundy

Empress dispensing alms and food to the poor, often beside a ship

1 saint

English lord chancellor carrying a book

1 saint

Saint Thomas More

English lord chancellor carrying an axe

1 saint

Saint Thomas More

Enthroned with his fellow martyrs

1 saint

Saint Romulus of Fiesole

Escaping from prison in a boat

1 saint

Saint Adelaide of Burgundy

Eucalyptus

1 saint

Saint Mary Mackillop

Exorcising a demon from a girl in a palace

1 saint

Saint Aidan of Lindesfarne Saint Louis Bertrand

Extinguishing a fire

2 saints

Eyes

1 saint

Eyes on a dish

1 saint

Saint Amicus of Fonte Avellana Saint Marius Aventicus

51 symbols

Farm tools

2 saints

Ferryman

1 saint

Saint Balbina of Rome Saint Leonard of Noblac

Fetters

2 saints

Fighting a demon with a scourge

1 saint

Saint Guthlac of Croyland

Filling a tomb with food for the poor

1 saint

Saint Ida of Herzfeld

Finding the body of saint firminus of amiens

1 saint

Fire

1 saint

Fire (represents saint anthony’s fire)

1 saint

Fire in his hand

1 saint

Fire on his breast

1 saint

Fire under his feet

1 saint

Saint Amalburga of Mauberge Saint Andrew The Apostle Saint Benno of Meissen Saint Comgall of Bangor Saint Francis of Assisi

Fish

9 saints

+4 more

Saint Amalburga of Mauberge Saint Andrew The Apostle Saint Benno of Meissen Saint Comgall of Bangor Saint Francis of Assisi Saint Kentigern Saint Simon The Apostle Saint Verena of Zurich Saint Zeno of Verona

Fish with a coin in its mouth

1 saint

Fishing net

1 saint

Saint Amand of Maastricht Saint Felix of Valois

Fishing rod

1 saint

Saint Zeno of Verona

Flag

2 saints

Flame, referring to his gifts from the holy spirit

1 saint

Flames (represents saint anthony’s fire)

1 saint

Flaming heart, an allusion to a passage in his confessions

1 saint

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Flask of wine

1 saint

Saint Giovanni Theristi

Flies

1 saint

Flies stinging a desert hermit

1 saint

Flowering staff

1 saint

Saint Zenobius of Florence

Flowering tree

1 saint

Flowers

1 saint

Saint Abundantia of Spoleto

Flowers in winter

1 saint

Foot on the head of a man

1 saint

Saint Alban of Britain Saint Boniface of Crediton

Fountain

2 saints

Fountain springing up on the opening of his tomb

1 saint

Saint Adalbert of Egmond

Fox

1 saint

Saint Giles Maryofsaintjoseph

Franciscan celebrating mass around dying people

1 saint

Saint Szymon of Lipnica

Franciscan friar with a cane

1 saint

Franciscan friar with a picture of our lady of the well

1 saint

Saint Giles Maryofsaintjoseph

Franciscan giving food to a poor man

1 saint

Saint Szymon of Lipnica

Franciscan habit

1 saint

Franciscan hermit with a cross upon which birds perch

1 saint

Saint Conrad of Piacenza

Franciscan holding a chalice and a veil

1 saint

Franciscan nun rose in her hand

1 saint

Franciscan nun with a beggar nearby

1 saint

Franciscan nun with a jug in her hand

1 saint

Franciscan pointing to a crucifix he is holding

1 saint

Franciscan preaching, angels with rosaries and ihs above him

1 saint

Franciscan tertiary nun

1 saint

Franciscan with a staff, castanets at his girdle, pointing to ihs

1 saint

Franciscan with cross on his breast and carrying banner of the cross

1 saint

Saint Accursies of Morocco

Franciscan with flames bursting from his heart

1 saint

Saint Peter Regalatus

Friar with a sword in his chest

1 saint

From then on, all the bread brought into that house turned to stones)

1 saint

Saint Pharaïldis of Ghent

Fuller‘s club

1 saint

Saint James The Lesser

Funeral pyre

1 saint

Furnace

1 saint

Saint Denis of Paris

43 symbols

Geese

1 saint

Geese (on the trip to rome to answer the summons of pope vigilius, he turned a flock of geese into pets by making the sign of the cross over them

1 saint

Georgian cross

1 saint

Saint Nino of Georgia

Giant

1 saint

Saint Christopher

Gilded tooth

1 saint

Girdle

1 saint

Saint Monica

Girl being stoned by a mob near the tomb of saint agnes of rome

1 saint

Saint Emerentiana

Girl carrying her severed head

1 saint

Girl falling on ice while skating

1 saint

Girl restoring eyesight to her mother

1 saint

Girl with a distaff

1 saint

Girl with a hunting knife in her throat

1 saint

Girl with a knife in her breast

1 saint

Girl with a sheep

1 saint

Girl with a shepherd‘s crook

1 saint

Girl with a watchdog

1 saint

Girl with flowers in her apron

1 saint

Girl with stones in her lap and holding a palm of martyrdom or lily of a holy death

1 saint

Saint Emerentiana

Girl working on embroidery

1 saint

Giving a fish to a beggar

1 saint

Giving a garment to a beggar

1 saint

Giving a ring to saint godebertha

1 saint

Giving his garments to the poor

1 saint

Saint John of Kanty

Giving saint lawrence a bag of money to give to the poor

1 saint

Pope Saint Sixtus II

Globe

1 saint

Globe of fire

1 saint

Globe under his feet

1 saint

Glove on a book

1 saint

Gold cup

1 saint

Goldsmith

1 saint

Saint Martin of Tours Saint Pharaïldis of Ghent

Goldsmith tools

1 saint

Saint Marius Aventicus

Goose

2 saints

Goose (referring to his occupation)

1 saint

Goose leg

1 saint

Grapevine cross

1 saint

Saint Nino of Georgia

Green branch covered with twigs and foliage

1 saint

Saint Bibiana

Green rose

1 saint

Greeting and/or kissing saint anne at the golden gate

1 saint

Greeting saint joachim at golden gate

1 saint

Saint Ferdinand III of Castille

Greyhound

1 saint

Gridiron

1 saint

Saint Marciana of Galatia

Group of women and children holding palms of martyrdom

1 saint

Guardian angel

1 saint

112 symbols

Haddock

1 saint

Saint Jude Thaddeus Saint Matthew The Apostle

Halberd

2 saints

Hammer

1 saint

Hand tools

1 saint

Saint Caedmon Saint Caradoc of Wales Saint Patrick

Handkerchief

1 saint

Saint Godelieve

Hare

1 saint

Saint Melangell

Harp

3 saints

Hart

1 saint

Hatchet

1 saint

Having a ring placed on her finger by the christ-child

1 saint

Having her head restored by saint beuno

1 saint

Head and cross

1 saint

Head in his hand

1 saint

Saint Alban of Britain

Healing a blind nun

1 saint

Saint Mechtildis of Edelstetten

Healing the eyes of a sister nun by a touch

1 saint

Hearing the confession of king clovis

1 saint

Saint Eleutherius of Tournai

Heart

2 saints

Saint Catherine of Siena Saint John of God

Heart marked with a cross

1 saint

Heart of jesus

1 saint

Saint Francis De Sales

Heart surrounded by a wreath of roses and transfixed by a sword

1 saint

Our Lady of Sorrows

Heart with seven swords, emblematic of the seven sorrows

1 saint

Our Lady of Sorrows

Heart with the letters ihs on it

1 saint

Heavenly gaze

1 saint

Helmet with ostrich feathers

1 saint

Saint Bessus

Helping to build the lincoln cathedral

1 saint

Hen and rooster

1 saint

Heretics

1 saint

Hermit

1 saint

Hermit accompanied by an donkey

1 saint

Hermit being buried by two lions (his story was sometimes confused with saint jerome‘s)

1 saint

Hermit being given milk by hinds

1 saint

Saint Romedio of Nonsberg

Hermit dressed as a pilgrim

1 saint

Hermit expelling the devil with a cross

1 saint

Saint Macarius of Egypt

Hermit in front of his cave fighting a dragon with a stick

1 saint

Saint Liphardus of Orleans

Hermit in prayer with a cell with crosses and a whip

1 saint

Saint Raynerius Inclusus

Hermit in the wilderness being discovered by a hunter

1 saint

Hermit leaning on a crutch in the form of a tau staff while conversing with a skull

1 saint

Hermit near a river holding his severed head

1 saint

Saint Clair of Epte

Hermit near hollow tree

1 saint

Hermit riding a stag

1 saint

Saint Edeyrn

Hermit sitting on a column

1 saint

Hermit tending wild animals

1 saint

Hermit wearing a norbertine habit

1 saint

Hermit wearing animal skins

1 saint

Saint Abraham Kidunaia

Hermit with a cross in front of a cave

1 saint

Saint Ingbert

Hermit with a crown at his feet

1 saint

Saint Corentius of Quimper

Hermit with a fish

1 saint

Hermit with a ray of light shining on him

1 saint

Saint Deicola

Hermit with a thorn in his foot

1 saint

Hermit with a wild boar at his feet

1 saint

Saint Deicola

Hermit with an angel bringing him the eucharist or bread

1 saint

Hermit with lamp

1 saint

Hermit with lantern

1 saint

Hermit with staff and a glove (which is probably related to falconry)

1 saint

Hermit with tau staff being fed by an eagle

1 saint

Hermit with the devil on his shoulder

1 saint

Hermit with the devil under his feet

1 saint

Hermit with three hinds near him

1 saint

Hermitage

1 saint

Hermitess with two hinds near her

1 saint

Saint Macrina The Elder

Hermitess with two stags near her

1 saint

Saint Macrina The Elder

Hog

1 saint

Holding a barb or awl or something similarly pointed referring to the gouging out of his eye

1 saint

Saint Adalbald of Ostrevant Saint Adelaide of Burgundy Saint Amand of Maastricht Saint Godehard of Hildesheim

Holding a chalice and host surrounded by rays of light

1 saint

Saint Juan De Sahagún

Holding a chalice occupied by a serpent (represents the attempts to poison him)

1 saint

Saint Louis Bertrand

Holding a church

4 saints

Holding a church in his hands

1 saint

Saint Achilleus of Terracina

Holding a church, referring to him as one of the great founders of the diocese of tournai

1 saint

Saint Eleutherius of Tournai

Holding a citadel

1 saint

Holding a cross

1 saint

Saint Louis Bertrand

Holding a cross and palm

1 saint

Holding a cross with a flame over her head

1 saint

Saint Brigid of Ireland

Holding a cross, with a wolf and lamb at his feet, and floating above a battlefield on a cloud or a white palfrey

1 saint

Saint Andrew Corsini

Holding a crown and palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint Botwid of Sudermannland

Holding a drawn bow

1 saint

Saint Kessog

Holding a fish (refers to the legendary story of his death which involved a miracle of a large catch of fish)

1 saint

Holding a heart marked with a cross

1 saint

Saint Veronica Giuliani

Holding a hermit‘s tau staff with a nearby bear with a log

1 saint

Saint Gall

Holding a lance with a club at the lower end

1 saint

Holding a lily and palm

1 saint

Saint Equitius of Valeria

Holding a monastery, emblematic of the houses founded through his work

1 saint

Holding a palm of martyrdom and the shears used to cut off her breasts

1 saint

Saint Febronia of Nisibis

Holding a shield with a cross

1 saint

Saint Gengulphus of Burgundy

Holding a short cross in his hand and surrounded by tools

1 saint

Saint Bernward of Hildesheim

Holding a staff which miraculously flowers

1 saint

Saint Canna Verch Tewdr Marw

Holding a sword on a funeral pyre, sometimes with her father nearby

1 saint

Holding a two-headed cross, two lances, and a club

1 saint

Saint Botwid of Sudermannland

Holding an axe (possibly the weapon used to kill him)

1 saint

Holding an oar

1 saint

Saint Eleutherius of Tournai

Holding blunt instruments like rods, clubs or flails, referring to his martyrdom

1 saint

Holding her severed head

1 saint

Saint Valeria of Limoges

Holding his cathedral

1 saint

Holding his hermitage

1 saint

Saint Luke The Younger

Holding his severed head

1 saint

Saint Alban of Mainz

Holding mary or jesus in her arms or lap

1 saint

Holding saint cyricus by the hand

1 saint

Holding saint julitta by the hand

1 saint

Saint Gervase Saint Protase

Holding stones

2 saints

Holding the spear with which he was murdered

1 saint

Saint Gengulphus of Burgundy

Holding two babies in swaddling clothes

1 saint

Saint Aidan of Lindesfarne

Holding up a lighted torch

1 saint

Holding whitby abbey in her hands with a crown on her head or at her feet

1 saint

Saint Bonaventure of Bagnoregio Saint Charles Borromeo Saint Ignatius of Loyola Saint Stanislaus Kostka

Holy communion

4 saints

Holy infant

1 saint

Saint Eustachius Saint Hubert of Liège

Hooded hermit holding a pillow

1 saint

Saint Domèce

Horn

2 saints

Horse

2 saints

Saint George Saint Hubert of Liège

Horses

1 saint

Saint Hippolytus of Rome

Horseshoe

2 saints

Saint Dunstan of Canterbury Saint Eligius of Noyon

Host

2 saints

Saint Barbara Saint Clare of Assisi

Hourglass

1 saint

Huntsman adoring a stag with a crucifix in its antlers

1 saint

31 symbols

Imperial roman soldier holding a lightning bolt(s)

1 saint

Saint Defendente The Theban

Imperial roman soldier holding a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Imperial roman soldier near a burning church

1 saint

Imperial roman soldier with a knife and palm branch

1 saint

Saint Hardoin of Brittany

Imprisoned priest lying on potsherds and consecrating the eucharist on his own breast

1 saint

Saint Lucian of Antioch

In a professor‘s gown with his arm around the shoulder of a young student whose gaze he directs towards heaven

1 saint

Saint John of Kanty

In a stone boat that is being pushed across the water by angels

1 saint

In an orchard

1 saint

In armor with a pilgrim‘s staff

1 saint

In armor with orb, with crown and scepter at the feet

1 saint

Saint Leobinus of Chartres

In bed, receiving communion from saint caletric

1 saint

In company of saint zachary

1 saint

Saint Elizabeth of The Visitation

In ecstasy while grinding grain to flour

1 saint

Saint Winnoc of Wormhoult

In his cell with his niece mary in an adjoining anchoress cell

1 saint

Saint Abraham The Poor

In his sick bed with the virgin mary nearby

1 saint

Saint Fulbert of Chartres

In the company of saint acisclus

1 saint

Saint Victoria of Cordoba

In the habit of the servite order with a host upon her breast

1 saint

Saint Juliana Falconieri

In the procession translating saint firminus of amiens‘s relics

1 saint

Incorrupt body being found with a chalice on his breast

1 saint

Infant jesus

1 saint

Infant jesus (referring to his vision)

1 saint

Inkwell

1 saint

Instructing a king in a cell

1 saint

Instruments of the passion

1 saint

Irish bishop with a book

1 saint

Irish bishop with a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint Vicinius of Sarsina

Iron collar

1 saint

Iron comb

1 saint

It and his feast day in early spring led to his association with farmers and then shepherds

1 saint

Saint Castulus of Rome

It represents the faith he helped establish in nuremburg, germany

1 saint

It symbolizes the cord or halter worn around his neck during the plague of milan, italy in 1575

1 saint

4 symbols

Jar, jug or pitcher

1 saint

Jars of olive oil (legend says that after a failed olive harvest, nonnosus filled all the olive oil jars by praying over them)

1 saint

Saint Justina of Seville Saint Rufina of Seville

Jesuit wearing a leather cape and holding a staff topped with a crucifix

1 saint

Saint John Francis Regis

Jugs

2 saints

49 symbols

Key

4 saints

Saint Benignus of Dijon Saint Benno of Meissen Saint James The Greater Saint Raymond of Penyafort

Keys

4 saints

Saint Genevieve Saint Peter The Apostle Saint Verena of Zurich Saint Zita of Lucca

Keys (indicative of running the king‘s household)

1 saint

Saint Cunera

Keys (referring to keeping the home)

1 saint

Keys of heaven

1 saint

Keys to the city of agnone

1 saint

Saint Alkmund of Northumbria Saint Matthew The Apostle

King

2 saints

King bearing a sword and lily

1 saint

Saint Clydog

King bearing gifts

3 saints

Saint Balthasar Saint Caspar Saint Melchior

King enthroned with a greyhound at his feet

1 saint

King finding treasure and giving it to the poor

1 saint

Saint Guntramnus

King holding a church in his hands

1 saint

King holding a cross

1 saint

Saint Louis XI

King holding a crown of thorns

1 saint

Saint Louis XI

King holding a standard or banner with the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

King holding a sword and palm with his armour nearby

1 saint

Saint Oswald of Northumbria

King in crown, carrying sceptre and orb, ciborium, sword, palm-branch, and/or with his raven

1 saint

King offering his crown to the blessed virgin mary king on horseback with banner of the cross king holding a church in his hands king holding a standard or banner with the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Saint Balthasar Saint Caspar Saint Melchior

King on a camel

3 saints

King on horseback with banner of the cross

1 saint

King on horseback, drinking mead, while assassins move toward him

1 saint

Saint Edmund of East Anglia

King tied to a tree and shot with arrows

1 saint

King with a nail in his hand

1 saint

Saint Dagobert II

King with dagger and cup

1 saint

King with dagger and falcon

1 saint

King with his two sons nearby

1 saint

King with sceptre and sword

1 saint

King with sword and banner of the cross

1 saint

King with three treasure chests, one of which has a globe and cross

1 saint

Saint Guntramnus

King, crowned and in armour with his weapons and a symbol of charity (food basket, etc.)

1 saint

Saint Olaf II

Kitchen equipment

1 saint

Kneeling at mass while her father murders the priest gerebernus

1 saint

Kneeling before a crucifix

1 saint

Kneeling before a stag as an angel brings him a stole

1 saint

Kneeling before an altar

1 saint

Pope Saint Clement I

Kneeling before an altar where the blessed sacrament is exposed

1 saint

Saint Miguel De Sanctis

Kneeling in prayer, a hound before him and often with hunting gear nearby

1 saint

Kneeling mule

1 saint

Kneeling with the chalice before him

1 saint

Kneeling, pierced by a spear

1 saint

Saint Agatha of Sicily Saint Christina of Bolsena

Knife

2 saints

Knight

1 saint

Saint Nicasius of Jerusalem

Knight (sometimes a moor) in full armour, bearing a standard and a palm

1 saint

Saint Maurice

Knight holding a hammer

1 saint

Saint Arnold of Hiltensweiler

Knight holding a model of the church at hiltensweiler, and a crusader‘s banner

1 saint

Knight in armour with a red cross on his breast, which is the badge of the sardinian order of saint maurice

1 saint

Saint Maurice

Knight in armour with crown and lily

1 saint

Saint Emeric of Hungary

Knight with a banner showing the stag‘s head and crucifix

1 saint

Saint Angela Merici Saint Emmeramus of Regensburg Saint Joseph

Knight with a wreath, lance, and ciborium

1 saint

Saint Canute Lavard

42 symbols

Lab coat

1 saint

Saint Joseph Moscati

Ladder

3 saints

Ladder extending into heaven

1 saint

Saint Bathilde

Ladle (reference to her home-making, cooking, etc.)

1 saint

Saint Agnes of Rome Saint Colette Saint Francis of Assisi Saint John The Baptist Saint Joseph

Lamb

5 saints

Lamp

3 saints

Saint Dymphna Saint Lucy of Syracuse Saint Remigius of Rheims

Lance

6 saints

Saint Barnabas The Apostle Saint Justus of Trieste Saint Longinus The Centurian Saint Matthew The Apostle Saint Matthias The Apostle

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Saint Barnabas The Apostle Saint Justus of Trieste Saint Longinus The Centurian Saint Matthew The Apostle Saint Matthias The Apostle Saint Simon The Apostle

Large rock or stone (legend says that there a stone that teams of oxen could not remove from the monastery‘s garden

1 saint

Larkspur (associated with the herbal healing of eye problems)

1 saint

Lash, whip or scourge, usually with three thongs

1 saint

Laughing aloud with his mouth wide open

1 saint

Lawyer enthroned between rich and poor litigants

1 saint

Lawyer holding a book, with an angel near his head and a lion at his feet

1 saint

Lawyer surrounded by suppliants, holding a parchment and pointing upwards

1 saint

Lawyer surrounded by symbols of the holy spirit such as doves

1 saint

Leading four men in white clothing into heaven

1 saint

Saint Alexander of Pydna

Leading the christ-child by the hand

1 saint

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi

Leading the christian army against the turks

1 saint

Leading, fighting or killing a dragon

1 saint

Saint Mercurialis of Forli

Leather awl

1 saint

Saint Crispin

Leaving footprints in stone

1 saint

Leek

1 saint

Saint Liphardus of Orleans

Legend says that the dragon was blocking lifard’s way to a fountain

1 saint

Lilies

1 saint

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Lilies (reported to have bloomed out of season when his relics where moved)

1 saint

Lilies growing in the sand (refers to a legend that says three lilies blossomed in dry sand as giles explained three points to prove the perpetual virginity of mary to a doubter)

1 saint

Lillies and roses

1 saint

Saint Mary Ann De Paredes

Lily, in reference to one that grew from her spilled blood

1 saint

Lion

1 saint

Lion in the desert

1 saint

Lion, referring to the who befriended him after he pulled a thorn from the creature’s paw

1 saint

Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Lions

1 saint

Lit lamp

1 saint

Saint Madron of Cornwall

Loaves

1 saint

Saint Honorius of Amiens Saint Philip The Apostle

Loaves of bread

2 saints

Loaves of bread (refers to a legend where a rich woman, who would not share her bread with a beggar, said in front of pharaildis that if there was any bread in the house, she hoped it would turn to stone

1 saint

Saint Pharaïldis of Ghent

Loaves of bread on a dish

1 saint

Long cape

1 saint

Long hair (refers the wiping of jesus’ feet)

1 saint

Saint Mary Magdalen

Lying dead but incorrupt in her coffin with flowers in her hair as the coffin is opened during renovations

1 saint

Lying on a wooden board

1 saint

Saint Seraphina

277 symbols

Maiden being beheaded near a fountain

1 saint

Maiden carrying a basket of fruit and flowers, especially roses

1 saint

Maiden holding a book and peacock feather

1 saint

Maiden with a bear on a chain

1 saint

Maiden with a dog on a chain

1 saint

Making a prophesy

1 saint

Saint Agabus The Prophet

Making baskets (the traditional source of income for early monks)

1 saint

Making peace with king luitprand

1 saint

Pope Saint Zachary

Man accompanied by a winged ox

1 saint

Man arguing with a pagan

1 saint

Man arguing with saint thomas aquinas

1 saint

Saint Albert The Great

Man baptizing a young king

1 saint

Man baptizing the ethiopian eunuch

1 saint

Man beating himself in the chest with a stone

1 saint

Man before the blessed virgin mary and saint anne

1 saint

Man being beaten

1 saint

Man being brought food by a bird

1 saint

Man being brought to land by dolphins

1 saint

Man being burned with torches

1 saint

Man being pulled from a river by an angel

1 saint

Saint Anthimus of Rome

Man being sawn in two longitudenally

1 saint

Man being stabbed by children

1 saint

Saint Cassian of Imola

Man being thrown into a furnace

1 saint

Saint Julian of Anazarbus

Man being thrown into the sea in a sack

1 saint

Man bound on a camel being led through the streets

1 saint

Saint Julian of Anazarbus

Man bound to a cross

1 saint

Saint Abundius The Priest

Man bringing a dead boy back to life while other people, including guards, look on

1 saint

Man bringing a lamb to the altar and being turned away by the priest

1 saint

Man calming a storm at sea

1 saint

Saint Baldomerus of Saint Justus

Man carrying a spade and a basket of vegetables beside him, surrounded by pilgrims and blessing the sick

1 saint

Saint Fiacre

Man carrying his cross immediately behind christ

1 saint

Saint Dismas

Man carrying locksmith tools and a set of pincers

1 saint

Man casting a devil out of a child

1 saint

Saint Hermes The Exorcist

Man clad in rough garments made of leaves or skins

1 saint

Man composing hymns with a lyre

1 saint

Man crucified at christ’s right hand

1 saint

Saint Dismas

Man crucified head downwards

1 saint

Man cutting cloak in half

1 saint

Saint Peter Crisci of Foligno

Man dressed as a dominican bishop lecturing from a pulpit

1 saint

Saint Albert The Great

Man dressed in chain mail holding a church and a spear

1 saint

Saint Caradoc of Wales

Man dressed in sack cloth or rags in a posture of prayer while staring at the sun

1 saint

Man elevating the eucharist as he wears a rope around his neck

1 saint

Saint John of Cologne

Man enthroned under christ among the apostles

1 saint

Saint Deochar

Man exorcising the emperor’s daughter

1 saint

Man forcing the devil to help him to build a church

1 saint

Man giving thanks before an altar while nearby is the boy whose blindness was healed

1 saint

Saint Deochar

Man giving the habit to saint william of aquitaine

1 saint

Saint Benedict of Aniane

Man grasping a devil‘s nose with pincers

1 saint

Man hanging his hat on a sunbeam

1 saint

Saint Leodegarius of Autun

Man having a vision of a ladder being scaled by monks

1 saint

Saint John Climacus

Man having his eyes bored out with a gimlet

1 saint

Man healing a choking boy

1 saint

Man helping venetian sailors

1 saint

Man holding a book

1 saint

Saint James The Lesser

Man holding a book and being illuminated by a ray of light

1 saint

Man holding a book or scroll reading descendit ad inferna

1 saint

Man holding a book with pax tibi marce written on it

1 saint

Man holding a chalice and goldsmith‘s hammer

1 saint

Man holding a container of salt (refers to salzburg and the salt mining there)

1 saint

Saint Rupert of Salzburg

Man holding a green palm and a golden book, presumably a bible

1 saint

Man holding a horse‘s leg, which he detached from the horse in order to shoe it more easily

1 saint

Man holding a key or keys

1 saint

Man holding a ladder

1 saint

Man holding a pair of smith‘s tongs

1 saint

Man holding a palm and book

1 saint

Man holding a pitcher

1 saint

Saint Walstan of Bawburgh

Man holding a sceptre and scythe

1 saint

Man holding a skull and scourge

1 saint

Man holding a small cross

1 saint

Man holding a sword and a book

1 saint

Saint Paul The Apostle

Man holding aloft a sword and cloak

1 saint

Man holding money

1 saint

Man holding the catheral of hamburg, germany

1 saint

Saint Ansgar

Man holding the church of saint goar am rhein

1 saint

Man holding the long staff of a pilgrim from which a wallet or gourd of water is suspended man with a thin beard, and the hair parted in the middle and flowing down on each side man with shells around him pilgrim of compostella scallop shell scallop shell on his flapped hat scallop shell on his shoulder

1 saint

Man holding the rule of his monastery in his hand

1 saint

Saint Sabbas of Mar Saba

Man holding the weights and measures of food and drink given him by saint benedict

1 saint

Man holding towers in his hand

1 saint

Man hunting with his courtiers, and finding his wife’s veil near the monastery of klosterneuburg

1 saint

Man in a benedictine cowl holding benedict’s rule or a rod of discipline

1 saint

Man in a cave with a book

1 saint

Saint Julian of Anazarbus

Man in a cave with food being lowered to him in a basket

1 saint

Saint Benedict of Aniane

Man in a coffin which is floating into shore and on which sits four angels

1 saint

Man in a mountain setting holding a bishop‘s crozier

1 saint

Saint Bernard of Menthon

Man in a pilgrim‘s habit holding a staff

1 saint

Man in a religious habit wearing a fur pelisse

1 saint

Man in a tree, which is being gnawed by a mouse, grabbing a beehive while hanging over a dragon in a pit

1 saint

Saint Barlaam

Man in adoration before a vision of the host

1 saint

Saint Pascal Baylon

Man in armour

1 saint

Man in armour, with hammer, anvil, and sword

1 saint

Man in classical dress with flowers across his chest and holding a palm and cathedral

1 saint

Saint Justus of Trieste

Man in prayer with the moon and seven stars over his head

1 saint

Saint Adamnan of Iona

Man in trinitarian habit (white with blue and red cross on the breast) with chains in his hands or at his feet, captives near him, and his mitre at his feet

1 saint

Saint Victor of Marseilles

Man kicking down a pagan altar

1 saint

Man kneeling before saint henry ii

1 saint

Saint Heribert of Cologne

Man laying his hand on an anvil to be chopped off

1 saint

Man listening to a talking stag

1 saint

Man living in a hollow tree

1 saint

Man lying beneath a staircase

1 saint

Man lying on a mat

1 saint

Man mounted on horseback, trampling a moor

1 saint

Man moving a river (refers to a miracle he performed)

1 saint

Saint Finnian of Moville

Man near a wagon

1 saint

Man on a journey with a hat and staff

1 saint

Man on a rack

1 saint

Saint Hermes The Exorcist

Man on horse-back casting a devil out of a woman who is being led by a rope tied around her

1 saint

Man on horseback sharing his cloak with beggar

1 saint

Man ordering birds to stop singing

1 saint

Saint Canice

Man ordering mice to leave

1 saint

Saint Canice

Man painting an icon of blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Man praying by the sea

1 saint

Man praying in a cave with a lion nearby

1 saint

Saint Sabbas of Mar Saba

Man praying with arms raised while a nearby stag holds a bible in his antlers

1 saint

Saint Canice

Man preaching from a cross

1 saint

Man putting a horseshoe on the devil‘s cloven foot

1 saint

Man rebuilding a hut and driving out devils

1 saint

Man rebuking crows

1 saint

Man refusing a mitre

1 saint

Saint Romedio of Nonsberg

Man riding a bear

1 saint

Man riding a deer

1 saint

Saint Teilo of Llandaff

Man riding a donkey away from a tournament, showing how he turned his back on the chivalrous life

1 saint

Man roasted in a bronze bull

1 saint

Man roasted in an oven

1 saint

Man sailing on his cloak

1 saint

Man seated at the edge of a cliff

1 saint

Saint Sabbas of Mar Saba

Man shackled with a ball and chain who is attending the sick

1 saint

Saint Jerome Emiliani

Man shoeing a horse

1 saint

Saint Agapitus of Synnada

Man standing between a mitre and a suit of armor

1 saint

Man standing in front of an army that is in confusion

1 saint

Saint Anselm of Lucca The Younger

Man standing in front of an open tomb, which may be identified as that of saint boniface

1 saint

Saint Deochar

Man standing near a huge stone

1 saint

Man standing next to a lion or lioness

1 saint

Saint Basilius of Ancyra

Man standing on a mound with a dove on his shoulder

1 saint

Saint Martinian The Hermit

Man standing on a rock in the sea

1 saint

Man striking water with a staff

1 saint

Man surrounded by farmers and cattle

1 saint

Man tended by eagles

1 saint

Man tended by sea otters

1 saint

Man tended by swans

1 saint

Man throwing part of his chains over a precipice

1 saint

Saint Adjutor of Vernon

Man thrown into a river with a millstone around his neck

1 saint

Man thrown off a cliff into the sea

1 saint

Man thrusting his arm into a fire

1 saint

Saint William Firmatus

Man tied and nailed to a tree

1 saint

Saint Emmanuel

Man tilling with a demon or devil pulling the plow

1 saint

Saint Procopius

Man trampling on a lion

1 saint

Saint Walstan of Bawburgh

Man wearing a ball and chain, and receiving an apparition of mary and the child jesus

1 saint

Saint Jerome Emiliani

Man wearing a crown and holding a scythe

1 saint

Man wearing a fur pelise

1 saint

Saint Ansgar

Man wearing a rochet, distributing pictures of the blessed virgin mary and chaplets to children

1 saint

Saint Peter Fourier

Man with a bear carrying his baggage

1 saint

Man with a benedictine monk kissing his feet

1 saint

Man with a book or scroll accompanied by a winged lion

1 saint

Man with a cross on his brow, pointing upwards

1 saint

Man with a crown at his feet and a broom in his hand to show that he gave up the royal life for a humble one

1 saint

Saint Judicaël

Man with a crucifix and lance, treading a turban underfoot

1 saint

Man with a dove hovering near him

1 saint

Man with a falcon on his arm

1 saint

Man with a halter around his neck

1 saint

Man with a hammer and anvil in one hand, a sword in the other

1 saint

Man with a hammer in his left hand, a sword in right

1 saint

Man with a hart leading hunters to him by a pool

1 saint

Man with a knife in his head and a sword in his breast

1 saint

Man with a long red beard

1 saint

Saint Abraham Kidunaia

Man with a palm in his hand and a burning torch under his feet

1 saint

Man with a pig at his side

1 saint

Man with a pilgrim‘s staff in his hand and a crown at his feet

1 saint

Saint Jodocus

Man with a purse or giving alms

1 saint

Man with a raven descending toward him

1 saint

Saint Aaron The Patriarch

Man with a raven that is showing him the way to the promised land

1 saint

Saint William Firmatus

Man with a rod in flower, a censer and a jewish mitre

1 saint

Man with a star on his forehead

1 saint

Man with a swan at his death bed

1 saint

Man with a sword

1 saint

Man with a sword through his neck

1 saint

Saint Aquilinus of Milan

Man with a thin beard, and the hair parted in the middle and flowing down on each side

1 saint

Man with a troop of angels before him

1 saint

Saint Elpidius The Cappadocian

Man with a vine leaf in winter which recalls a story of him planting a twig in bare ground in winter – and the resulting vine grew so fast and full and that it covered the whole church beside it

1 saint

Man with an angel holding a palm above him

1 saint

Man with an angel making a cross on his brow

1 saint

Man with an angel showing him the cross

1 saint

Man with an anvil in his hand, at his feet or nearby

1 saint

Man with an anvil in his left hand, a sword in right

1 saint

Man with an axe in the right hand and the crozier in the left

1 saint

Saint Homobonus of Cremona

Man with angels making clothing with him or for him

1 saint

Man with christ on his shoulders

1 saint

Saint Christopher

Man with hammer and crown near a smithy

1 saint

Man with hammer, anvil, and saint anthony

1 saint

Man with his arms and legs chopped off

1 saint

Man with his chest pierced with nails or spikes

1 saint

Pope Saint Alexander I

Man with his feet nailed to the ground

1 saint

Man with his hands cut off and his eyes torn out

1 saint

Saint Menas Kallikelados

Man with his limbs chopped off

1 saint

Saint Edmund of East Anglia

Man with his severed head between the paws of a wolf

1 saint

Man with his throat pierced by a sword

1 saint

Saint Sabinian of Troyes

Man with pillars of light above him

1 saint

Man with saint basil the great

1 saint

Man with shells around him

1 saint

Man with sword and scepter

1 saint

Man with the word “charitas” levitated above a crowd

1 saint

Saint Walstan of Bawburgh

Man with three springs of water nearby

1 saint

Saint Paul The Apostle

Man with two calves

1 saint

Man with two camels

1 saint

Saint Menas Kallikelados

Man with two candles

1 saint

Man with two oxen at his feet

1 saint

Man working with gold or metal, usually in a monastery or cloister, sometimes with an angel speaking to him

1 saint

Man writing

1 saint

Man writing (his biography of saint columba)

1 saint

Saint Adamnan of Iona

Man writing or holding his gospel

1 saint

Man writing with dove nearby

1 saint

Man writing with the hand of god over him

1 saint

Saint Arnold of Arnoldsweiler

Man, often in armour, with a harp or other stringed instrument

1 saint

Manacles

1 saint

Saint Leonard of Noblac

Martyr‘s wreath

1 saint

Martyred, with a fountain springing from her blood

1 saint

Saint Cosmas Saint Damian

Medical emblems

2 saints

Member of the theban legion

2 saints

Saint Cassius Saint Florentius The Martyr

Mercedarian surrounded by moors and prisoners

1 saint

Mercedarian surrounded by ransomed slaves

1 saint

Mercedarian with a cardinal‘s red hat

1 saint

Mercedarian with a padlock on his lips

1 saint

Saint Homobonus of Cremona

Merchant surrounded by beggars and sick people

1 saint

Metal working tools

1 saint

Saint Barnabas The Apostle

Middle-aged bearded apostle, often bearing a book or olive branch

1 saint

Military standard with a white lily

1 saint

Saint Alexander of Bergamo

Millstone

2 saints

Saint Christina of Bolsena Saint Victor of Marseilles

Mitre

1 saint

Saint Evasius of Asti

Mitred abbot enthroned with a book, a veil tied to his crozier

1 saint

Saint Dominic of Silos

Mitred bishop without his crosier, right hand lifted in a gesture of benediction and left folded upon his breast

1 saint

Saint Gaugericus of Cambrai

Money bag

1 saint

Money box

1 saint

Monk being beaten to death with clubs by two men

1 saint

Monk being killed by the stone masons

1 saint

Saint Portianus of Miranda

Monk breaking a cup from which a snake escapes – the snake represents poison, and sometimes leads to portianus’ confusion with saint benedict

1 saint

Monk bringing the eucharist to saint mary of egypt

1 saint

Saint Zosimus of Palestine

Monk changing water into wine

1 saint

Monk eating fish with a widow

1 saint

Monk fighting or chasing a dragon

1 saint

Saint Beatus of Lungern

Monk handing out alms with an eagle nearby

1 saint

Monk hanged on a gibbet

1 saint

Saint Gerasimus of Palestine

Monk healing a lion (early writers may have confused gerasimus and saint hieronymus)

1 saint

Monk holding a club and ciborium

1 saint

Monk in a bear‘s den with a fountain springing while he prays

1 saint

Monk in a white habit holding a staff

1 saint

Saint Valéry of Leucone

Monk in prayer being sheltered from the rain by an eagle with its wings outstretched over him

1 saint

Saint Brenach of Carnengyle

Monk on a ladder

1 saint

Saint John Climacus

Monk or abbot with a cuckoo

1 saint

Monk or abbot with the nevern cross

1 saint

Saint Brenach of Carnengyle

Monk or bishop with the words fides, spes, charitas on his cloak or arm

1 saint

Saint Kevin of Glendalough

Monk or hermit with a blackbird sitting on his outstretched hand

1 saint

Monk pointing at a ladder on which other monks are ascending to heaven, indicative his founding of his order

1 saint

Saint Romuald

Monk saving saint placid from drowning while a cowl floats above him

1 saint

Saint Portianus of Miranda

Monk speaking to a king

1 saint

Monk studying scripture in a library

1 saint

Saint Ado of Vienne

Monk surrounded by prisoners

1 saint

Saint Portianus of Miranda

Monk walking on water, which is how he reached saint placid to save him from drowning

1 saint

Monk with a bag of sand on the shoulders

1 saint

Monk with a book and a weapon

1 saint

Saint Beatus of Lungern

Monk with a crown at his feet as he talks to a man cutting down a tree

1 saint

Monk with a fish

1 saint

Saint Gulstan

Monk with a lantern

1 saint

Monk with a ship in his hand

1 saint

Saint Fructuosus of Braga

Monk with a stag, which relates to a story that he saved one from hunters, and it became a devoted pet

1 saint

Monk with a stone mason‘s hammer

1 saint

Monk with a tau staff walking into the wilderness

1 saint

Monk with grapes

1 saint

Monk with saint benedict

1 saint

Monk with sickles or wheat (legend says that to prove the power of christianity, he had a leperwheat ready for harvest, which he then baked into bread for the lepers)

1 saint

Saint Fintan of Doon

Monk with tongs and rod

1 saint

Monk with wild animals around him

1 saint

Monk writing at a desk

1 saint

Monk‘s habit

1 saint

Saint Clare of Assisi Saint Joseph Saint Norbert of Xanten Saint Thomas Aquinas

Monstrance

4 saints

Moorish soldier trampling on a broken pagan altar

1 saint

Saint Helena of Constantinople Saint Louis XI

Murdered man near a coffer of money

1 saint

Saint Rumold

Music

1 saint

Saint Caedmon

Musical instruments, especially a lute or organ

1 saint

Saint Cecilia

41 symbols

Nails

2 saints

Naked child sitting on a wild boar

1 saint

Naked man, holding his cross, often with his hand on his heart to signify penitence

1 saint

Saint Dismas

Naked or nearly-naked young man tied to a tree and shot with arrows

1 saint

Saint Sebastian

Naked woman clothed with long hair

1 saint

Naked young woman hanging by her hair

1 saint

Naked young woman lying in the snow

1 saint

Saint Eulalia of Merida

Near her own tomb as it exudes its miraculous oil

1 saint

Nearly every image depicts him wearing a medallion with a profile of jesus, and usually with a small flame above his head

1 saint

Noblewoman surrounded by linens

1 saint

Saint Hunna of Alsace

Nonnosus wanted to plant cabbages on the land, so he prayed over the stone and moved it by himself)

1 saint

Nordic king with royal insignia, dagger, lance or arrow

1 saint

Nun carrying her head

1 saint

Saint Osith

Nun enthroned, with christ above her and hell below, while she gives books to the emperor and kings

1 saint

Nun giving a book to saint augustine

1 saint

Saint Richrudis of Marchiennes

Nun holding a church in her hand

1 saint

Nun holding a crown of thorns

1 saint

Nun holding roses

1 saint

Nun holding roses and figs

1 saint

Nun in ecstasy before the crucifix with instruments of the passion nearby

1 saint

Nun kneeling at an altar with her daughter(s)

1 saint

Saint Bertha of Blangy

Nun reading, holding a cross, with builders in the background

1 saint

Saint Richrudis of Marchiennes

Nun saint eusebia of hamage, saint clotsindis of marchiennes, saint adalsindis, and saint maurontius

1 saint

Nun wearing a crown and holding a church or fish

1 saint

Saint Eanswith

Nun wearing the habit of a discalced carmelite

1 saint

Nun with a book

1 saint

Nun with a cross on her brow witnessing the birth of christ, which she saw in one of her visions

1 saint

Nun with a jug

1 saint

Nun with a monstrance and arrow

1 saint

Nun with a stag nearby

1 saint

Saint Osith

Nun with a wound on her forehead

1 saint

Nun with an angel with a branch of oranges nearby

1 saint

Nun with crown and scepter

1 saint

Saint Crider of Cornwall

Nun with crozier and crucifix

1 saint

Saint Scholastica

Nun with dove flying from her mouth

1 saint

Saint Scholastica

Nun with her guardian angel dressed as a deacon

1 saint

Nun with roses at her feet

1 saint

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Nun with shells, a sign of pilgrimage, sewn on her habit

1 saint

Nun writing while christ and the virgin appear before her

1 saint

Nun writing with a pilgrim‘s equipage nearby

1 saint

Nun writing with an angel hovering over her shoulder, often whispering in her ear

1 saint

50 symbols

Oak tree

1 saint

Saint Julian The Hospitaller Saint Simon The Apostle

Oar

2 saints

Often carries a pen or sits at a writing location to make reference to the canonical epistle

1 saint

Oil lamp (legend says that he prayed over a broken oil lamp and it was miraculously reconstructed)

1 saint

Ointment box

1 saint

Old and very ragged beggar with a dish

1 saint

Saint Felician of Foligno

Old bishop with a hook and tongs

1 saint

Old bishop with a prince at his feet

1 saint

Saint Felician of Foligno

Old bishop with holes bored through his feet and hands

1 saint

Old hermit carding fleece

1 saint

Saint Palaemon of Thebaid

Old hermit dressed only in long hair and a loincloth of leaves

1 saint

Old hermit with long, white hair wearing a girdle of leaves with two lions near him

1 saint

Saint Macarius of Egypt

Old king in armor near a book, broken tree trunk, ship, and saint bavo’s monastery

1 saint

Old king with a sword and well or font nearby

1 saint

Old man

1 saint

Old man dressed as a pilgrim

1 saint

Old man holding a lily and a carpenter‘s tool such as a square

1 saint

Old man holding the infant jesus

1 saint

Old man in a cave, usually reading

1 saint

Saint Beatus of Lungern

Old man in trinitarian habit with a coronet at his feet

1 saint

Old man with a lion

1 saint

Old man with long white hair and a beard, holding the gospel in his right hand, and leaning on a transverse cross

1 saint

Old man with stags and other animals around him

1 saint

Saint Conrad of Piacenza

Old man, clothed with palm-leaves, and seated under a palm-tree, near which are a river and loaf of bread

1 saint

Old monk dying amidst his community

1 saint

Old monk reading or otherwise studying

1 saint

Old monk with a book and pen

1 saint

Old monk with a jug

1 saint

Saint Aldebrandus of Fossombrone

Old priest holding a staff and sailing on his cloak to isola giulio over lake maggiore, which is full of serpents, symbolic of him riding over pagan demons to bring christianity to the area

1 saint

Saint Julius of Novara

Old, ill bishop in bed raising to life a cooked partridge

1 saint

On old custom, no longer in use, had the mayor of the town present the symbolic keys to the city before the relics of saint cristanziano on the eve of his feast day, showing a request that the saint protect the town

1 saint

On the feast day, the relics would be processed to the mayor‘s office and returned to the government, showing that the saint had accepted

1 saint

Saint Brendan The Navigator

One of a group of monks in a small boat

1 saint

One of a group of seven stars, representing the founders of the carthusians

1 saint

One of a group of travellers beaten with a club

1 saint

One of a group of women and children holding palms of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint Susanna

One of three bishops on a ship

1 saint

One of two priests standing together and holding palms of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint Marcellinus

Or of faith, hope and love

1 saint

Or of poverty, chastity and obedience)

1 saint

Saint Matilda of Saxony Saint Quirinus of Rome

Orb

2 saints

Ordaining saint felix of nola

1 saint

Saint Maximus of Nola

Oriental bishop holding a picture of the last judgement

1 saint

Saint Methodius

Oriental bishop holding up a church with saint cyril

1 saint

Saint Methodius

Oriental monk holding a church with the help of methodius

1 saint

Oven

1 saint

Saint Eustachius

Overcoming a dragon by displaying ihs

1 saint

Overseeing the construction of the abbey at lérins

1 saint

Saint Ambrose of Milan Saint Luke The Evangelist Saint Thomas Aquinas

3 saints

Ox skin

1 saint

Saint Chrysanthus

140 symbols

Pair of pincers

1 saint

Saint Macra of Rheims

Pair of scales in which he weighs false merchandise against god‘s word

1 saint

Saint Antonius of Florence

Palette (refers to the tradition that he was a painters)

1 saint

Pallium

1 saint

Saint Agatha of Sicily Saint Ansanus The Baptizer Saint Columba of Sens Saint Magnus of Orkney Saint Theodore Stratelates

Palm

6 saints

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Saint Agatha of Sicily Saint Ansanus The Baptizer Saint Columba of Sens Saint Magnus of Orkney Saint Theodore Stratelates Saint Trudpert of Münstertal

Palm (his sufferings and patience led some to consider him a martyr)

1 saint

Saint Achilleus of Terracina Saint Alexander of Bergamo Saint Barbara Saint Bessus Saint Daniel of Padua

Palm of martyrdom

12 saints

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Saint Achilleus of Terracina Saint Alexander of Bergamo Saint Barbara Saint Bessus Saint Daniel of Padua Saint Eurosia Saint Fidentius of Todi Saint Macra of Rheims Saint Sara of Antioch Saint Stephen The Martyr Saint Terence of Todi Saint Torpes of Pisa

Palm with dates

1 saint

Papal vestments

1 saint

Paper

1 saint

Saint Cassian of Imola

Passionist robe

1 saint

Pastoral staff

1 saint

Peacock (legend days that when his relics were taken to paderborn, the procession was led by a peacock

1 saint

Peasant girl dying alone in poverty

1 saint

Peasant girl tending sheep

1 saint

Peasant girl with flowers falling around her in winter

1 saint

Peasant praying while an angel plows a nearby field

1 saint

Saint Guy of Anderlecht

Peasant with a book

1 saint

Saint Guy of Anderlecht

Pebble

1 saint

Saint Comgall of Bangor

Pebbles

1 saint

Saint Alphonsus Maria De Liguori Saint Ambrose of Milan Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Cassian of Imola

Pen

9 saints

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Saint Alphonsus Maria De Liguori Saint Ambrose of Milan Saint Augustine of Hippo Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Cassian of Imola Saint Hilary of Poitiers Saint Isidore of Seville Saint John Chrysostom Saint Justin Martyr

Performing an excorcism on a girl or young woman

1 saint

Saint Conrad of Constance

Performing an exorcism

1 saint

Performing an exorcism on a monk

1 saint

Performing various charitable acts and miracles

1 saint

Person trampled under foot

1 saint

Saint Cosmas Saint Damian

Phial

2 saints

Phial of oil

1 saint

Physicians

1 saint

Pierced by three lances and beheaded

1 saint

Pig

1 saint

Pilgrim

1 saint

Saint Alexis Falconieri

Pilgrim holding a papal bull, to signify his many legations

1 saint

Saint Peter Damian

Pilgrim in an ermine-lined cloak (wears a crown, or it sits on a book nearby) with a bishop and an abbot, his sons, nearby

1 saint

Saint Richard The King

Pilgrim monk carrying a rope

1 saint

Pilgrim of compostella

1 saint

Pilgrim sleeping in the sun while an eagle fans him

1 saint

Saint Guy of Anderlecht Saint Severinus of Noricum

Pilgrim with a book

2 saints

Pilgrim with a dog

1 saint

Pilgrim with a dog carrying a loaf of bread in its mouth

1 saint

Pilgrim with a dog licking the plague spot

1 saint

Pilgrim with a shell in his hat, a rosary and a staff

1 saint

Saint Fridolin of Säckingen

Pilgrim with a staff and book

1 saint

Pilgrim with hat, staff, rosary, and an ox at his feet

1 saint

Saint Guy of Anderlecht

Pilgrim with saint richard the king and saint winnebald of heidenheim

1 saint

Pilgrim with staff, often displaying a plague sore on his leg

1 saint

Pilgrim with wallet and shell

1 saint

Pilgrim with wallet and staff

1 saint

Pilgrim, usually near santiago de compostela, spain

1 saint

Pilgrim‘s hat

1 saint

Saint Bernerio of Eboli Saint Bridget of Sweden Saint Findan of Rheinau Saint James The Greater

Pilgrim‘s staff

4 saints

Pillar

1 saint

Saint Bibiana

Pincers

5 saints

Saint Agatha of Sicily Saint Apollonia of Alexandria Saint Christina of Bolsena Saint Dunstan of Canterbury Saint Eligius of Noyon

Pincers grabbing a tooth

1 saint

Placing a ring on the finger of a statue of the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Plane

1 saint

Plates

1 saint

Platters

1 saint

Ploughing his brother’s fields

1 saint

Plowing with a bear and cattle

1 saint

Poor clare nun holding a cross

1 saint

Saint Eustochia Calafato

Poor clare nun holding a crucifix and a hook

1 saint

Poor clare nun kneeling before the blessed sacrament

1 saint

Saint Eustochia Calafato

Poor clare nun visited by saint anne, saint francis of assisi, and/or saint clare of assisi in a vision

1 saint

Poor clare nun walking on a stream

1 saint

Pope and bearing keys and a double-barred cross

1 saint

Pope Saint Gregory The Great

Pope holding a battle horn or cow‘s horn

1 saint

Pope Saint Cornelius

Pope holding a long cross

1 saint

Pope Saint Agatho

Pope holding money

1 saint

Pope Saint Martin I

Pope in a prison cell

1 saint

Pope Saint Martin I

Pope receiving a vision of the trinity

1 saint

Pope Saint Dionysius

Pope standing in a stable

1 saint

Pope Saint Marcellus I

Pope with a book

1 saint

Pope Saint Dionysius

Pope with a chalice over which three hosts hover (may refer to the celebration of christmas with three masses said to represent the temporal, spiritual, and eternal birth of christ)

1 saint

Pope Saint Telesphorus

Pope with a chalice with a nearby club (possibly an indication of his martyrdom)

1 saint

Pope Saint Telesphorus

Pope with a cow nearby

1 saint

Pope Saint Cornelius

Pope with a donkey or horse nearby

1 saint

Pope Saint Marcellus I

Pope with a dove, dragon, and flame

1 saint

Pope Saint Celestine I

Pope with a millstone on him or nearby

1 saint

Pope Saint Callistus I

Pope with an anchor

1 saint

Pope Saint Felix I

Pope with geese around him (possible confusion by artist with martin of tours)

1 saint

Pope Saint Martin I

Pope with saint nereus

1 saint

Pope Saint Caius I

Pope working on sheet music

1 saint

Pope writing

1 saint

Pope Saint Gregory The Great

Pots

2 saints

Saint Justina of Seville Saint Rufina of Seville

Pottery

2 saints

Saint Justina of Seville Saint Rufina of Seville

Prayer beads

1 saint

Praying before the church while the city burns

1 saint

Saint Barlaam Saint Josaphat

Praying farmer

1 saint

Saint Orentius of Loret

Praying in a cave

2 saints

Praying in a cloud surrounded by a group of lunatics bound with golden chains

1 saint

Saint Angadrisma of Beauvais

Praying leper

1 saint

Praying on the walls of orléans, france with an army in the field near the city

1 saint

Saint Aignan of Orléans

Praying with a monstrance in his hands

1 saint

Preacher carrying a flaming heart

1 saint

Preacher holding some fish

1 saint

Saint Fulbert of Chartres

Preaching monk

1 saint

Preaching newborn baby

1 saint

Saint Rumwold of Buckingham

Preaching on a hill

1 saint

Saint Severinus of Noricum

Preaching pilgrim with odoacer (severinus prophesied an invasion by him)

1 saint

Preaching to his people from the pulpit

1 saint

Saint Felicity of Carthage

Pregnant woman holding a cross

1 saint

Pregnant woman with the virgin mary

1 saint

Saint Elizabeth of The Visitation

Prelate with a hand reaching from heaven to give him bread for the mass

1 saint

Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus

Presenting a bishop‘s mitre to saint alexander the charcoal burner

1 saint

Presenting an apple to a king and thus restoring his sight

1 saint

Presenting five infants to her husband

1 saint

Priest bearing a sword

1 saint

Saint Brendan The Navigator

Priest celebrating mass on board ship while fish gather to listen

1 saint

Priest dying in front of an altar

1 saint

Saint Andrew Avellino

Priest giving sight to a blind girl

1 saint

Priest holding a boat containing a coffin

1 saint

Priest holding a sun

1 saint

Priest holding in his right hand a chalice from which a snake is escaping

1 saint

Priest in a trance with spectral images hovering nearby

1 saint

Saint Roderick of Cordoba

Priest in mass vestments holding a palm of martyrdom as an angel brings him a wreath of roses

1 saint

Priest or bishop celebrating mass at dawn

1 saint

Priest or bishop with pen and book

1 saint

Priest surrounded by the sisters of charity

1 saint

Saint Vincent De Paul

Priest vested for mass holding a ship with a coffin in it

1 saint

Priest with a book and maniple

1 saint

Priest with a column of fire

1 saint

Saint Brieuc of Brittany

Priest with or presenting the sacred hearts of jesus and mary

1 saint

Saint John Eudes

Prince giving alms in front of his palace

1 saint

Prince holding a millstone

1 saint

Saint Hallvard of Oslo

Prince with an axe

1 saint

Saint Hermengild

Princess healing a blind man

1 saint

Princess holding a lamp and sword

1 saint

Princess in a tower with either the palm of martyrdom or chalice of happy death

1 saint

Saint Margaret of Hungary

Princess with a lily

1 saint

Princess with a sword holding the devil on a leash

1 saint

Princess with an angel

1 saint

Princess with one arm off

1 saint

Pulpit, representing his life as a preacher

1 saint

Purgatory

1 saint

Saint Brieuc of Brittany Saint Felix of Valois Saint John of Matha Saint Matthew The Apostle Saint Nicholas of Myra

Purple rose

1 saint

Saint Rafqa

Purse

5 saints

Purse of money

1 saint

Purse, indicative of her generosity

1 saint

Pyre

1 saint

Saint Margaret of Scotland

9 symbols

Queen dispensing gifts to the poor, often while carrying a black cross

1 saint

Queen giving a letter to a messenger

1 saint

Queen holding a church

1 saint

Queen holding a convent and/or church

1 saint

Saint Madrun

Queen holding a cross

1 saint

Queen in widow’s weeds

1 saint

Saint Madrun

Queen leading the search for the true cross

1 saint

Queen with a whip

1 saint

Quill

1 saint

44 symbols

Rabbit

1 saint

Saint Melangell

Raising a dead child to life

1 saint

Saint Benedict of Nursia Saint Boniface of Crediton Saint Paul The Hermit

Raising a girl (possibly dressed as a princess) from the dead (refers to converting a king by bringing his daughter back to life)

1 saint

Saint Clement of Metz

Raising a rich pagan‘s son to life

1 saint

Saint Abundius of Como

Raven

3 saints

Reading in a cell with a rosary and cross, his episcopal insignia at his feet

1 saint

Saint Disibod of Disenberg

Receiving a bishop‘s mitre from pope gregory iii

1 saint

Receiving a lamb from the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Receiving a lily and the palm of martyrdom from the virgin and child

1 saint

Saint Martina of Rome

Receiving a palm of martyrdom from an angel

1 saint

Receiving a vision of christ before a battle

1 saint

Receiving a vision of mary

1 saint

Saint William of Eskilsoe

Receiving a vision of saint genevieve

1 saint

Receiving an apparition of our lord

1 saint

Saint Radegunde

Receiving an appearance by christ

1 saint

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi

Receiving life from god

1 saint

Adam The Patriarch

Receiving the embrace of the child jesus

1 saint

Receiving the newly dead into heaven

1 saint

Receiving the scapular from the holy trinity

1 saint

Receiving the veil from the christ child in the arms of the blessed virgin

1 saint

Refusing the cup at the table of pepin to show his refusal of worldly things

1 saint

Represents the doctrine of the trinity which defeated the arian

1 saint

Rescuing christian slaves from saracens

1 saint

Saint Waltheof of Melrose

Restoring sight to a blind man

1 saint

Restoring the head of saint winifred

1 saint

Saint Beuno Gasulsych

Reversed cross

1 saint

Rewarding a messenger with a goose leg, which turns into a fish on friday morning

1 saint

Richly-dressed young man

1 saint

Riding through a river on horseback as his companion sinks

1 saint

Saint Catherine Del Ricci Saint Catherine of Siena Saint Kentigern

Ring

3 saints

Ringing a bell

1 saint

Saint Winwallus

Robin

1 saint

Saint Anthony The Abbot Saint Joseph

Rod

2 saints

Roman centurian holding a lily

1 saint

Saint Venerando The Centurian

Roman soldier

2 saints

Saint Alexander of Bergamo Saint Crescentinus

Roman soldier holding one or two spits

1 saint

Saint Quentin

Roman soldier refusing to sacrifice to bacchus

1 saint

Saint Auxentius of Mopsuetia

Rooster

1 saint

Saint Vitus

Rooster, a symbol of vigilance

1 saint

Saint Godelieve Saint John of God

Rope

2 saints

Rosary

4 saints

Saint Dominic De Guzman Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Saint Martin De Porres Saint Zita of Lucca

Roses

5 saints

Saint Cecilia Saint Dorothy of Caesarea Saint Rose of Lima Saint Thérèse of Lisieux Saint Valentine of Rome

Roses encircling a crucifix

1 saint

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Royal abbess with a small flask of oil on a book

1 saint

136 symbols

Saddling a wolf that killed his donkey

1 saint

Saint andrew’s cross

1 saint

Saint anthony’s cross (t or tau-shaped)

1 saint

Salmon

1 saint

Saltire (x-shaped) cross

1 saint

Salver

1 saint

Sand pit

1 saint

Saint Chrysanthus

Satyr

1 saint

Saw

1 saint

Saint Antonius of Florence Saint Clare of Montefalco Saint Maurus

Saxon prince leaning on a sword

1 saint

Saint Wystan of Evesham

Scales

3 saints

Scallop shell

1 saint

Scallop shell on his flapped hat

1 saint

Scallop shell on his shoulder

1 saint

Scarf or other cloth around her neck (refers to the method of her death)

1 saint

Saint Cunera

Scepter

1 saint

Saint Matilda of Saxony Saint Onuphrius Saint Quirinus of Rome

Sceptre

3 saints

Schoolmaster

1 saint

Saint Mawes

Scourge

2 saints

Saint Boniface of Crediton Saint Ottone Frangipane

Scroll

2 saints

Saint Jude Thaddeus Zephaniah The Prophet

Scythe

1 saint

Saint Sidwell

Serpent

5 saints

Adam The Patriarch Saint Christina of Bolsena Saint Hilary of Poitiers Saint John The Apostle Saint Patrick

Serving maid with a bag and keys

1 saint

Set of keys

1 saint

Severed hand

1 saint

Saint Eurosia

Severed head on a platter

1 saint

Shamrock

1 saint

Shears

1 saint

Shears with which her breasts were cut off

1 saint

Saint Macra of Rheims

Sheep

1 saint

Shell

1 saint

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Shepherd

1 saint

Shepherd handing out cheese

1 saint

Saint Uguzo of Carvagna

Shepherd standing in a sarcophogus

1 saint

Saint Themistocles of Lycia

Shepherd with iron caltrops nearby

1 saint

Shepherd‘s cloak

1 saint

Shepherd‘s crook

1 saint

Shepherdess

1 saint

Shepherdess holding a candle which the devil is trying to extinguish and angels are helping to protect

1 saint

Shepherdess in prayer

1 saint

Shepherdess near a crucifix

1 saint

Shepherdess with a coin suspended around her neck

1 saint

Shepherdess with a star over her head

1 saint

Saint Anselm of Canterbury Saint Magnus of Orkney Saint Nicholas of Myra Saint Oswald of Worcester Saint Ursula

Ship

5 saints

Shoe

2 saints

Saint Crispian Saint Crispin

Short, elderly franciscan holding a tablet inscribed ihs

1 saint

Short, elderly franciscan with three mitres at his feet representing the bishoprics he rejected

1 saint

Saint Bessus Saint Fiacre Saint Peter The Farmer

Shovel

3 saints

Sickle

1 saint

Saint Giovanni Theristi

Sieve

1 saint

Silver cross (only on his feast day)

1 saint

Sitting in fire

1 saint

Skin of an animal

1 saint

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga Saint Bruno Saint Francis of Assisi Saint Jerome Saint Onuphrius

Skull

5 saints

Skull crowned with an emporer’s diadem

1 saint

Saint Francis Borgia

Skull, a reference to her rejection of the world

1 saint

Saint Mary Ann De Paredes

Slave

1 saint

Slaying a dragon, generally from horseback

1 saint

Saint Crescentinus

Slender cross

1 saint

Small child at the scourging of christ, which she saw in one of her visions

1 saint

Small reed crosses

1 saint

Small ship

1 saint

Saint Bertin The Great

Snakes

1 saint

Saint Maurice Saint Nicasius of Jerusalem Saint Theodore Stratelates

Snakes, serpents, vipers

1 saint

Saint Veridiana

Soldier

3 saints

Soldier at the foot of the cross

1 saint

Saint Longinus The Centurian

Soldier being executed with other soldiers

1 saint

Saint Maurice

Soldier carrying a bunch of thorns

1 saint

Soldier carrying a chalice

1 saint

Soldier carrying a dead tree bough

1 saint

Soldier carrying cruets

1 saint

Soldier carrying sacred vessels

1 saint

Soldier holding a banner reading “ictus”

1 saint

Saint Bessus

Soldier holding a banner with a cross, a palm branch and a small shield with an escarbuncle

1 saint

Saint Ferrutius

Soldier holding a banner with the mauritian cross

1 saint

Saint Bessus

Soldier holding a cross in one hand, a lit candle in the other

1 saint

Saint Phanurius

Soldier holding a miniature of the town of asti, italy

1 saint

Soldier in armor with standard and shield

1 saint

Soldier in armour holding a cross with a lit candle on the top

1 saint

Saint Phanurius

Soldier in armour holding a spear

1 saint

Saint Phanurius

Soldier in golden armour

1 saint

Saint Ambrose of Ferentino

Soldier on a horse

1 saint

Soldier on horseback

1 saint

Saint Alexander of Bergamo

Soldier on horseback raising a flag with a red cross on a white background

2 saints

Saint Pantaleimon of Bisceglia Saint Sergius of Bisceglia

Soldier with a hand full of thorns

1 saint

Soldier with a palm branch of martyrdom

1 saint

Soldier with large cross

1 saint

Saint Bacchus Saint Sergius The Martyr

Soldier with the banner of noli, italy

1 saint

Martyrs of Noli

Soldier with the palm of martyrdom

2 saints

Soldier, often in a uniform contemporaneous with the artist, carrying a spear

1 saint

Saint Longinus The Centurian

Some stories say it was may that way, others that it was a latin cross, but fell over, and his killers just left it propped up on one of the cross-arms

1 saint

Saint Theophilus The Penitent

Sometimes she is shown handing him back the contract, usually shown in the form of a scroll

1 saint

Spade

3 saints

Saint Bessus Saint Fiacre Saint Maurus

Spade a reference to being buried alive

1 saint

Saint Castulus of Rome

Spear

6 saints

Saint Emmeramus of Regensburg Saint Justus of Trieste Saint Matthew The Apostle Saint Matthias The Apostle Saint Theodore Stratelates

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Saint Emmeramus of Regensburg Saint Justus of Trieste Saint Matthew The Apostle Saint Matthias The Apostle Saint Theodore Stratelates Saint Thomas The Apostle

Spiderweb

1 saint

Spiked wheel

1 saint

Saint Barsanuphius of Gaza

Spreading his cloak over oria, italy to cause it to rain heavily and save the town from allied bombing in world war ii

1 saint

Spring of water

1 saint

Spurning a marriage proposal, represented by a ring, being offered by a king

1 saint

Saint James The Lesser Saint Jude Thaddeus

Square rule

2 saints

Stabbed with a lance

1 saint

Stabbed with a sword

1 saint

Saint Wenceslaus of Bohemia

Staff

1 saint

Stag

4 saints

Saint Eustachius Saint Hubert of Liège Saint Julian The Hospitaller Saint Petroc

Stag with a crucifix over its head

1 saint

Standing before an altar of the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Saint Bathilde

Standing near oxen

1 saint

Standing near the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

Saint Barnabas The Apostle

Standing on or near a pile of stones while holding a book

1 saint

Standing with hands clasped, holding his crucifix, his book of rules, and his rosary

1 saint

Saint John Berchmans

Standing with saint bernard of clairvaux

1 saint

Saint Aleth of Dijon

Standing with saint peter

1 saint

Saint Bruno Saint Dominic De Guzman Saint Thomas Aquinas

Star

3 saints

Star of david

1 saint

Saint Teresa Benedicta of The Cross

Star on his breast

1 saint

Saint Catherine of Siena Saint Francis of Assisi Saint Gemma Galgani

Stick

1 saint

Saint Hilary of Poitiers

Stigmata

3 saints

Stone

2 saints

Saint Comgall of Bangor Saint Oswald of Worcester

Stones

2 saints

Saint Barnabas The Apostle Saint Stephen The Martyr

Stopping wild birds from stealing a corn crop

1 saint

Saint Agricola of Avignon

Stork(s)

1 saint

Striking water from the soil at lagny with the point of his staff

1 saint

Saint Leobinus of Chartres

Studying in a field, often while watching sheep

1 saint

Such an image is usually a metaphor for the saint defeating the evil that is keeping him from god

1 saint

Saint Liphardus of Orleans

Sun

1 saint

Sun inscribed ihs

1 saint

Supernatural fire, often with a dove nearby

1 saint

Saint Basil The Great

Surrounded by bulgarian converts

1 saint

Surrounded by peaceful wild animals

1 saint

Saint Baudolino

Swan

1 saint

Saint Victorinus of Pettau

Sword and palm

1 saint

Sword stuck through a book

1 saint

Sword, the instrument of his execution

1 saint

Saint Abraham The Martyr

Swords

1 saint

60 symbols

T-square

1 saint

Saint Thomas The Apostle

Tablet inscribed ihs

1 saint

Saint Zosimus of Palestine

Taking a sick person’s place in bed

1 saint

Saint Zedislava Berka

Talking to saint mary of egypt across the river jordan

1 saint

Tall cross

2 saints

Saint Dismas Saint Philip The Apostle

Tall ladder with young women climbing it

1 saint

Saint Angela Merici

Tall, thin cross

1 saint

Saint Bartholomew The Apostle

Tanner‘s knife

1 saint

Taper, candle

1 saint

Saint Gertrude The Great

Tau cross with a bell on the end

1 saint

Teacher with pagan philosophers at his feet

1 saint

Teaching

1 saint

Teaching a group of children

1 saint

Saint Peter Canisius

Teaching mary to read the bible

1 saint

Tears

1 saint

Saint Monica

Temple

1 saint

Tending to saint sebastian

1 saint

Saint Irene of Rome

The arms of norway are a lion with the battle-axe of saint olaf in the forepaws

1 saint

Saint Olaf II

The boy is the son of the local governor who died while playing, and whom saint mansuetus raised from the dead

1 saint

Saint Mansuetus of Toul

The morning star

1 saint

The procession was abolished in the french revolution, and the camel destroyed, but the custom resumed once the persecutions were over

1 saint

The rule of saint ignatius, a cross, and rosary

1 saint

Saint John Berchmans

There is a story of him being befriended by a swan which would guard hugh when he slept

1 saint

These were blessed on his feast day and distributed to the faithful who then took them home and planted them in their fields as a way of asking for protection of their crops against destructive weather

1 saint

They represent two young saints, traditionally saint vital and saint valeria, the sisters met as infants

1 saint

Thin-faced elderly man with a high forehead, receding hairline and long pointed beard

1 saint

Saint Paul The Apostle

This image led to her tradition of patronage of babies, for safe childbirth and related matters

1 saint

This is due to his confusion with the 1st century aphrodosius who was reported to have been beheaded in the persecutions of nero

1 saint

Three bags of gold

1 saint

Three balls

1 saint

Saint Balthasar Saint Caspar Saint Melchior

Three crowns

3 saints

Three ears of corn

1 saint

Three geese

1 saint

Three golden balls on a book

1 saint

Saint Liberata of Pavia Saint Luminosa of Pavia Saint Speciosa of Pavia

Three lilies

3 saints

Tiara

1 saint

Pope Saint Gregory The Great

Tongs

1 saint

Tooth

1 saint

Tooth and a palm branch

1 saint

Torch

1 saint

Saint Aurelius of Riditio

Torrent

1 saint

Saint Christopher

Touching the head of a kneeling man

1 saint

Tower

1 saint

Towers in the background

1 saint

Trampling on lalli

1 saint

Saint Henry of Uppsala

Trampling on the word heresy

1 saint

Saint Germanus of Normandy

Travelling across water by standing on a wagon wheel

1 saint

Tree

2 saints

Saint Christopher Saint Kentigern

Tree full of ripe cherries (when she was pregnant with quintuplets in the dead of winter, she had a craving for cherries

1 saint

Trees

1 saint

Trinitarian with a stag nearby

1 saint

Trinitarian with chains or captives nearby

1 saint

Saint Winebald of Heidenheim

Trowel, referring to the churches and abbey he built

1 saint

Tunic

1 saint

Saint Ottone Frangipane

Turning serpents into stone

1 saint

Turtle

1 saint

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Two candles

1 saint

Two crossed candles

1 saint

Two fish

1 saint

Two ravens

1 saint

Saint Magino of Tarragona

1 symbol

Using his staff to cause springs to erupt from the ground

1 saint

13 symbols

Vaast will use it to feed the poor

1 saint

Saint Adelaide of Burgundy Saint Agatha of Sicily

Veil

2 saints

Veiled, holding apples from heaven on a branch

1 saint

Veiled, with flowers in her lap

1 saint

Very old hermit dressed in white, kneeling on grass and holding a rosary, with a stag by him

1 saint

Saint Godric of Finchale

Very old man carrying a flowering staff

1 saint

Very old man carrying a pair of altar cruets

1 saint

Very old man carrying a pot of ointment

1 saint

Very old monk (indicates that he was a monk from the beginning)

1 saint

Vessel

1 saint

Vine and scroll

1 saint

Violets

1 saint

Saint Seraphina

Virgin martyr wearing a veil and bearing her severed breasts on a silver platter

1 saint

301 symbols

Walking in procession as the volto santo crucifix is brought to lucca on an ox cart

1 saint

Saint Arbogast of Strasbourg

Walking over the surface of a river

1 saint

Washing the feet of the poor

1 saint

Watching a vision of angels

1 saint

Watching the flames of purgatory and hell

1 saint

Wax

1 saint

Saint Acisclus of Córdoba

Wearing a crown of roses

1 saint

Wearing a long philosopher‘s coat

1 saint

Wearing a pointed cap

1 saint

Saint Armagillus of Brittany

Wearing armor and a chasuble, leading a dragon with a stole around its neck (legend says he did that and ordered the dragon to dive into a river)

1 saint

Wearing bishop‘s mitre, holding the cross, and giving the sign of blessing in absolution

1 saint

Saint Antonius of Florence

Well

1 saint

Saint Sidwell

Whale

1 saint

Saint Brendan The Navigator

Wheel

2 saints

Saint Augusta of Treviso Saint Christina of Bolsena

When they reached saint peter’s basilica, he made the sign again and freed the birds)

1 saint

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Saint Bernard of Menthon

White coat

1 saint

Saint Joseph Moscati

White dog

2 saints

White dove, sometimes rising from a fire or ashes

1 saint

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

Widow’s weeds

1 saint

Saint Madrun

Windlass

1 saint

Saint Erasmus of Formiae

Windmill

1 saint

Saint Victor of Marseilles

Wine jug, pitcher, bottle or pot (referring to the miracle of turning water to wine)

1 saint

Saint Florinus of Remüs

Winged calf

1 saint

Winged deacon

1 saint

Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc

Winged lion

1 saint

Winged man

1 saint

Winged ox

1 saint

With a basket of fruit and the christ-child riding a hobby horse

1 saint

With a battle in the background, in memory of the conversion of clovis following the battle of soissons

1 saint

Saint Clotilde

With a bear

1 saint

Saint John of Bridlington

With a bell nearby

1 saint

Saint Gildas The Wise

With a book, crosier, and fur almice

1 saint

With a chained demon

1 saint

Saint Armagillus of Brittany

With a chalice and host, in allusion to his offering the holy sacrifice in prison

1 saint

Saint Lucian of Antioch

With a child or children at his feet (represents the people brought to the faith in his area)

1 saint

With a club set with spikes

1 saint

With a cross given him by an angel

1 saint

With a cross in one hand and a sword in the other, with a river or spring in the foreground

1 saint

Saint Alban of Britain

With a crown at his feet to indicate his disdain for worldly things

1 saint

With a devil nearby (the temptations of the world)

1 saint

Saint Amand of Maastricht

With a dolphin at his side

1 saint

Saint Lucian of Antioch

With a donkey laden with bread

1 saint

Saint Aubert of Arras

With a dove

1 saint

Saint Agabus The Prophet

With a dove and olive branch over him representing peace

1 saint

Pope Saint Zachary

With a dove hovering over her head

1 saint

Saint Ida of Herzfeld

With a dragon

1 saint

Saint Clement of Metz

With a dragon (the sin and evil he drove out by his work)

1 saint

With a holy water sprinkler or holy water pot

1 saint

With a hurlbat

1 saint

Saint Theodore of Tabenna

With a large cross and wearing chains on his hands and feet

1 saint

With a lion

1 saint

With a marian icon

1 saint

Saint John Damascene

With a palm and banner

1 saint

With a pile of fire wood for making a sacrifice

1 saint

With a ship

1 saint

Saint Donnino of Città Di Castello

With a small dog

1 saint

With a stag

2 saints

Saint Aiden Saint Kea

With a stag at his feet

1 saint

Saint Aidan of Lindesfarne

With a stag kneeling at his feet (refers to a stag hiding from hunters by runnning to him for sanctuary which convinced the hunters of clement’s holiness and led to their conversion)

1 saint

Saint Clement of Metz

With a stag with a cross in its antlers

1 saint

Saint Meinulph

With a sword and palm of martyrdom

1 saint

With a tree bearing three types of fruit (emblematic of teaching the trinity, similar to patrick’s clover

1 saint

Saint Valerian of Trastevere

With a wedding ring

1 saint

With a whirlbat

1 saint

Saint Austrebertha of Pavilly

With a wolf (it had killed her donkey so she made it take over the donkey‘s duties)

1 saint

With a wolf nearby

1 saint

Saint Remaclus of Maastricht

With a wolf or pack of wolves

1 saint

Saint Ailbe of Emly

With an angel and wreath of flowers

1 saint

With an angel calling him to heaven

1 saint

Saint Gregory of Spoleto

With an angel carrying a basket of flowers

1 saint

With an angel carrying a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Saint Concordius of Spoleto

With an angel who fed him during his captivity

1 saint

With an angel, whips and torture instruments

2 saints

Saint Tiburtius of Rome Saint Valerian of Trastevere

With an open chest and bags of money

1 saint

Saint Acacius of Amida

With axe in hand at the foot of an oak tree

1 saint

Saint Liberata of Pavia Saint Luminosa of Pavia Saint Speciosa of Pavia

With bishop epiphanius of pavia

3 saints

With blessed gabriel mary

1 saint

With constantine

1 saint

Saint Athanasia of Aegina

With empress theodora

1 saint

With eve

1 saint

Adam The Patriarch

With five children

1 saint

With grapes growing on brambles

1 saint

Saint Maximus of Nola

With his building klosterneuburg

1 saint

With his catechism and other books

1 saint

Saint Peter Canisius

With his crozier brought to him by an angel

1 saint

With his etymologia

1 saint

Saint Gervase Saint Protase

With his father and mother

2 saints

With his four daughters

1 saint

Saint Philip The Deacon

With his mitre and crozier on the ground to symbolize his resignation of the bishopric

1 saint

Saint Macarius of Antioch

With his severed hand

1 saint

Saint John Damascene

With isaac the patriarch

1 saint

With jesus and saint martha as patrons of travellers

1 saint

Saint Severinus of Noricum

With king clothair

1 saint

Saint Deicola

With odoacer (severinus prophesied an invasion by him)

1 saint

With our lady appearing before him

1 saint

With our lady of good remedy who hands him a bag of money

1 saint

With saint afra

1 saint

With saint albinus of brixen

1 saint

Saint Genuinus of Sabion

With saint andrew of fiesole

1 saint

Saint Brigid of Fiesole

With saint andrew the apostle

1 saint

With saint ansanus

1 saint

With saint anthony the abbot

1 saint

Saint Winnoc of Wormhoult

With saint bacchus

1 saint

Saint Sergius The Martyr

With saint barbasymas

1 saint

Saint Sadoth of Seleucia

With saint barlaam

1 saint

Saint Josaphat

With saint bertin

1 saint

With saint bruno

1 saint

Saint Leobinus of Chartres

With saint caletric

1 saint

With saint cecilia

1 saint

Saint Valerian of Trastevere

With saint chad

1 saint

Saint Cedd

With saint charles borromeo

1 saint

With saint clare of assisi

1 saint

Saint Agnes of Assisi

With saint colman and and saint totnan

1 saint

With saint columbanus

1 saint

Saint Attalas of Bobbio

With saint cyril

1 saint

Saint Methodius

With saint deodatus of nevers

1 saint

Saint Hunna of Alsace

With saint dionysius of paris

1 saint

Saint Erconwald of London

With saint diuma

1 saint

Saint Cedd

With saint ethelburga of barking

1 saint

With saint faustina of como (her sister)

1 saint

With saint felix of valois

1 saint

Saint Achilleus of Terracina

With saint fidelis of sigmaringen

1 saint

Saint Joseph of Leonessa

With saint flavia domitilla if terracina

1 saint

With saint florian of llorch

1 saint

With saint gelasius

1 saint

Saint Opilio of Piacenza

With saint genuinus of sabion

1 saint

Saint Albinus of Brixen

With saint gertrude the great

1 saint

With saint gervase

1 saint

Saint Protase

With saint godebertha of noyon

1 saint

Saint Monulphus of Tongerenmaastricht

With saint gondulf, each holding a small church or both of them holding a single small church between them

1 saint

With saint gregory the great

1 saint

Saint Seraphina

With saint gregory the great, saint jerome and saint augustine of hippo

1 saint

Saint Disibod of Disenberg

With saint hildegard of bingen

1 saint

With saint humbeline

1 saint

Saint Fulgentius of Ecija

With saint irenaeus

1 saint

Saint Mustiola of Chiusi

With saint isidore of seville, saint leander of seville, and saint florentina

1 saint

With saint jerome

1 saint

With saint john of matha

1 saint

With saint josaphat

1 saint

Saint Barlaam

With saint joseph of leonissa

1 saint

With saint justina of mainz

1 saint

Saint Aureus of Mainz

With saint juventius of pavia

1 saint

Saint Syrus of Pavia

With saint lawrence

1 saint

Pope Saint Sixtus II

With saint lawrence and saint john the baptist

1 saint

Pope Saint Sixtus II

With saint leander, saint fulgentius, and saint florentina of cartagena

1 saint

With saint marchelm

1 saint

Saint Lebuin of Deventer

With saint margaret (the patron of the convent liberata founded) benedictine nun holding a lily holding two babies in swaddling clothes

1 saint

With saint martial of limoges

1 saint

Saint Valeria of Limoges

With saint methodius

1 saint

Saint Gondulf of Tongerenmaastricht

With saint monulph, each holding a small church or both of them holding a single small church between them

1 saint

With saint mustiola

1 saint

Saint Irenaeus of Chiusi

With saint natalia

1 saint

Saint Achilleus of Terracina

With saint nereus of terracina

1 saint

With saint onuphrius the great and saint peter of athos

1 saint

Saint Macarius of Egypt

With saint pachomius of tabenna

1 saint

Saint Palaemon of Thebaid

With saint patroclus of troyes

1 saint

Saint Sabinian of Troyes

With saint paul

1 saint

Saint Barnabas The Apostle

With saint paul the hermit

1 saint

With saint philip neri and saint charles borromeo

1 saint

Saint Felix of Cantalice

With saint protase

1 saint

Saint Gervase

With saint protase and saint gervase (they appeared to ambrose in a vision to lead him to their lost relics)

1 saint

With saint richard of chichester

1 saint

With saint richard the king and saint winnebald of heidenheim

1 saint

Saint Sabino of Abellinum

With saint romulus and saint ipolisto

1 saint

With saint sabina

1 saint

Saint Arbogast of Strasbourg

With saint sabina of troyes

1 saint

Saint Sabinian of Troyes

With saint sebastian

1 saint

With saint secundus

2 saints

Saint Irenaeus of Chiusi Saint Mustiola of Chiusi

With saint sergius the martyr

1 saint

Saint Bacchus

With saint theodore tyro

1 saint

With saint thomas a becket

1 saint

Saint Acisclus of Córdoba

With saint valeria, saint gervase and saint protase

1 saint

Saint Vitalis of Milan

With saint victoria

1 saint

With saint vincent madelgaire

1 saint

Saint Landericus of Soignies

With saint vitalis, saint gervase and saint protase

1 saint

Saint Valeria of Milan

With saint willibald and saint winebald

1 saint

With snakes

1 saint

With the angel and the two captives from his vision in the background

1 saint

Saint Leonard of Port Maurice

With the blessed virgin mary

1 saint

With the blessed virgin mary appearing to him while he hunts, and with a veil nearby

1 saint

With the christ-child in an apple tree

1 saint

With the holy trinity

1 saint

With the theban legion

1 saint

Saint Acca of Hexham Saint Benedict Biscop

With the venerable bede

2 saints

With these items and with a muzzled animal at his feet

1 saint

Saint John of Bridlington

With three flowers in his hand

1 saint

With two horses at his feet

1 saint

With two lions, who dig paul‘s grave

1 saint

Saint Verano of Cavaillon

Withered, damaged or crushed foot

1 saint

Wolf

4 saints

Saint Edmund of East Anglia Saint Francis of Assisi Saint Petroc Saint William of Vercelli

Wolf bringing a goose to a bishop

1 saint

Saint Amicus of Fonte Avellana

Wolf, from a legend that says a wolf killed amicus’s donkey, so amicus made the wolf help collect wood for the monastery

1 saint

Woman arguing with pagan philosophers

1 saint

Woman being burned alive, sometimes tied to a tree, sometimes tied to a stake, sometimes just standing in fire

1 saint

Saint Afra of Augsburg

Woman being carried to heaven by an angel

1 saint

Woman being chased from a church by an angel with a sword

1 saint

Woman carrying a palm of martyrdom while a leopard and bull stand nearby

1 saint

Saint Marciana

Woman carrying a pitcher in a basket

1 saint

Woman carrying a small cross in her hand

1 saint

Woman carrying a small girdle in her hand

1 saint

Woman carrying an ointment box

1 saint

Woman carrying her severed head

1 saint

Saint Noyala of Brittany

Woman carrying roses in her lap in winter

1 saint

Woman crowned with roses

1 saint

Woman delivering a soul from purgatory

1 saint

Saint Euphrosyne of Alexandria

Woman dressed as a monk

1 saint

Woman gleaning a well-harvested field of grain

1 saint

Ruth The Matriarch

Woman gored by a bull

1 saint

Saint Marciana

Woman habited in black with a white veil, accompanied by her guardian angel, and sometimes carrying a basket of food

1 saint

Woman hanging by her hair in a tree

1 saint

Saint Zoe of Rome

Woman hitched to a yoke of oxen

1 saint

Woman holding a basin in one hand, branches in the other

1 saint

Saint Praxides of Rome

Woman holding a book

1 saint

Woman holding a bowl with a flame in it

1 saint

Woman holding a candle, lamp, lantern or torch which a demon is trying to blow out, sometimes with a bellows

1 saint

Saint Gudule of Brussels

Woman holding a cloth that bears the image of christ’s face

1 saint

Saint Veronica

Woman holding a cross and palm

1 saint

Saint Leocadia of Toledo

Woman holding a distaff

1 saint

Woman holding a feather

1 saint

Woman holding a large mouse

1 saint

Saint Christina of Bolsena

Woman holding a millstone and standing on a pagan

1 saint

Woman holding a palm and open book

1 saint

Woman holding a rope in her left hand and a candle in her right hand

1 saint

Saint Beatrice of Rome

Woman holding a set of keys

1 saint

Woman holding a small cross and vase

1 saint

Woman holding a sponge soaked in the blood of martyrs

1 saint

Saint Pudentiana of Rome

Woman holding a tablet

1 saint

Woman holding a tower

1 saint

Saint Christina of Bolsena

Woman holding a tower, indicating she died in prison

1 saint

Saint Leocadia of Toledo

Woman holding an arrow

1 saint

Woman holding her husband’s severed hand

1 saint

Saint Natalia of Nicomedia

Woman holding three loaves of bread

1 saint

Woman in a black benedictine habit and a crown

1 saint

Saint Etheldritha

Woman in a crown, holding a church

1 saint

Saint Clotilde

Woman in attendance when christ shows his heart to the father

1 saint

Woman in royal robes with a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Woman in the company of saint agatha, saint agnes of rome, barbara, catherine of alexandria, and saint thecla

1 saint

Woman in widow‘s weeds holding a palm of martyrdom

1 saint

Woman kneeling before a skull

1 saint

Woman kneeling before the tomb of saint agatha

1 saint

Woman leading a chained dragon

1 saint

Saint Christina of Bolsena

Woman pierced by an arrow

1 saint

Woman receiving holy communion from saint zosimus of palestine

1 saint

Woman receiving the location of the true cross in a dream

1 saint

Woman sitting at a table with a skull and bread

1 saint

Woman sitting under a palm tree and looking across the jordan river

1 saint

Woman spinning

1 saint

Woman standing next to a cauldron or large vessel

1 saint

Woman standing on a giant sturgeon or other fish

1 saint

Woman standing with her husband among court ladies hearing jesus preach

1 saint

Woman standing with, on, or beside a dead dragon

1 saint

Woman strangled with a handkerchief

1 saint

Saint Godelieve

Woman strapped to the spiked wheel on which she was martyred

1 saint

Woman thrown into the sea with a millstone around her neck

1 saint

Saint Aurea of Ostia

Woman tortured by being hung on a two-pronged hook

1 saint

Saint Martina of Rome

Woman trampling a saracen

1 saint

Woman using her long hair as a cloak

1 saint

Woman washing clothes for the poor and sick

1 saint

Saint Hunna of Alsace

Woman washing her hair in the jordan river

1 saint

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Woman wearing a crown and tending to beggars

1 saint

Woman wearing a crown, carrying a load of roses in her apron or mantle

1 saint

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Woman wearing a golden tooth on a chain

1 saint

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

Woman wearing the habit of the order of the visitation and holding a flaming heart

1 saint

Woman wearing the habit of the order of the visitation and kneeling before jesus who exposes his heart to her

1 saint

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque

Woman with a book and small cross

1 saint

Woman with a book in her hand

1 saint

Woman with a book on which are two eyes

1 saint

Saint Gunthildis of Suffersheim

Woman with a bucket of milk and/or a block of cheese, and a cow

1 saint

Woman with a bull or ox in an amphitheater

1 saint

Saint Felicity of Carthage

Woman with a bull, ox, leopard or lion in an amphitheater

1 saint

Saint Perpetua

Woman with a cat nearby

1 saint

Woman with a cross in her arms and a lamb standing nearby

1 saint

Woman with a crown at her feet

1 saint

Woman with a dolphin

1 saint

Woman with a dove which holds a ring in its beak

1 saint

Woman with a flame in her hand

1 saint

Woman with a lamb at her side

1 saint

Woman with a monstrance in her hand(s)

1 saint

Saint Clare of Assisi

Woman with a palm, book, and children at her feet

1 saint

Saint Gunthildis of Suffersheim

Woman with a pitcher of milk

1 saint

Woman with a sword beside her

1 saint

Saint Perpetua

Woman with a sword by her

1 saint

Saint Felicity of Carthage

Woman with a sword in her hand and a fettered devil at her feet

1 saint

Woman with christ showing her his wounded side

1 saint

Woman with cross and nails

1 saint

Saint Angadrisma of Beauvais

Woman with crown and palm

1 saint

Saint Valeria of Limoges

Woman with her face covered in smallpox scars or leprous skin

1 saint

Woman with long hair and a lamb, sometimes with a sword at her throat

1 saint

Woman with no hands

1 saint

Saint Eurosia

Woman with palm branch of martyrdom

1 saint

Woman with saint andrew the apostle

1 saint

Woman with saint mary magdalen

1 saint

Woman with seven sons

1 saint

Woman with the lion who dug her grave

1 saint

Woman working as an imperial roman household slave

1 saint

Women with a holy water font or vessel

1 saint

Saint Amicus of Fonte Avellana

Wood-cutter‘s axe

1 saint

Wool comb representing the item used to torture him

1 saint

Working as a goldsmith

1 saint

Writing instruments

1 saint

Saint Cassian of Imola

Writing near a well with a pitcher and bucket close and assorted wild animals watching from a distance, referring to a story that he watered and cared for wild animals

1 saint

Saint Theonas of Egypt

93 symbols

Young bearded jesuit in the company of saint ignatius loyola

1 saint

Young bearded jesuit with a torch, flame, cross and lily

1 saint

Young bishop with a crown by his feet

1 saint

Saint Louis of Toulouse

Young courtier with two hounds

1 saint

Saint Romanos The Melodist

Young deacon holding a church and an incense censer

1 saint

Young deacon in the middle of a church holding a scroll of a kontakion surrounded by church heirarchy and/or nobility and/or saints

1 saint

Saint Romanos The Melodist

Young deacon with a hammer

1 saint

Saint Athanasia of Aegina

Young girl weaving with a star over her or on her breast

1 saint

Young hunter with a stag

1 saint

Young king holding an orb and scepter

1 saint

Saint Liberalis of Treviso

Young knight

1 saint

Young knight with a halberd, an anachronistic depiction of his time in the roman army

1 saint

Saint Menas Kallikelados

Young man

1 saint

Young man being beheaded

1 saint

Saint Symphorian of Autun

Young man being dragged to martyrdom while his mother encourages him

1 saint

Young man carrying his severed head

1 saint

Saint Agapitus The Martyr

Young man chained in a dungeon

1 saint

Young man crowned while holding a lily, rod and palm

1 saint

Young man crowned while holding a rod and palm

1 saint

Young man crucified upside-down with smoke coming from his head

1 saint

Young man distributing his wealth

1 saint

Saint Agapitus The Martyr

Young man hanging upside down over a fire

1 saint

Young man holding a cluster of dates

1 saint

Young man holding a heart and liver

1 saint

Young man holding a liver

1 saint

Young man holding the christ child

1 saint

Saint Stanislaus Kostka

Young man holding the citadel of camerino, italy

1 saint

Young man holding the city of camerino, a palm, and a book

1 saint

Saint Anastasius of Lérida

Young man hung on a gibbet and pierced with arrows

1 saint

Young man in a surplice with a lily and crucifix

1 saint

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Young man in an amphitheatre with wild animals

1 saint

Saint Germanicus of Smyrna

Young man in an oven

1 saint

Young man in pontifical garments and holding a book and a crosier

1 saint

Saint Louis of Toulouse

Young man in royal robes

1 saint

Saint Casimir of Poland

Young man killing his parents in bed

1 saint

Young man tied to a stake and preaching to his torturers

1 saint

Young man wearing a fur-lined cloak, sword, and gloves

1 saint

Young man with a banner holding a city wall

1 saint

Saint Germanicus of Smyrna

Young man with a lion

1 saint

Young man with a palm

1 saint

Saint Germanicus of Smyrna

Young man with a sword and a boar nearby

1 saint

Saint Emeric of Hungary

Young man with palm, crown, burning coal, lions or dragons

1 saint

Saint Agapitus The Martyr

Young man, sometimes in armor, sometimes unarmed, pouring water from a tub on a burning church

1 saint

Saint Serapion of Algiers

Young mercedarian tied to a cross

1 saint

Young poor clare nun holding a book

1 saint

Saint Agnes of Assisi

Young priest carrying an old man (maximus) on his shoulders

1 saint

Young priest chained in prison with a pitcher and potsherds near him

1 saint

Saint Aldebrandus of Fossombrone

Young priest who is preaching to a crowd, which is sometimes portrayed as angry

1 saint

Young priest with a bunch of grapes (symbolizes his care of the aged maximus)

1 saint

Young priest with a spider

1 saint

Young priest with an angel removing his chains

1 saint

Young prince holding a crown

1 saint

Saint Expeditus of Melitene

Young prince in armor being borne to heaven while contemplating the crucifix while around him angels carry an axe, chains, royal regalia, a palm, and a rose wreath and heretical bishops and king stand below him

1 saint

Saint Hermengild

Young roman soldier holding aloft a banner with the word “hodie” (latin for ‘today’)

1 saint

Young roman soldier holding aloft a cross

1 saint

Saint Expeditus of Melitene

Young soldier holding a palm and a red and white flag

1 saint

Saint Terence of Pesaro

Young soldier holding the city of pesaro, italy

1 saint

Saint Terence of Pesaro

Young soldier receiving a banner and sword from an angel

1 saint

Young soldier, sometimes on horseback, sometimes with a banner, and often in the period attire of the artist, not of secundus

1 saint

Young woman battling a winged devil

1 saint

Young woman being boiled

1 saint

Young woman chaining up a dragon

1 saint

Young woman chaining up and/or scourging the devil

1 saint

Young woman holding a chain

1 saint

Saint Balbina of Rome

Young woman holding a cross in one hand and the early church of lentini in the other

1 saint

Saint Thecla of Lentini

Young woman holding or carrying a stone

1 saint

Saint Euphrasia

Young woman in a cauldron

1 saint

Young woman kissing the chains of captive christians

1 saint

Saint Balbina of Rome

Young woman leading a chained devil

1 saint

Young woman placing a cross on the head of the devil while holding a lily in her hand

1 saint

Saint Justina of Padua

Young woman shot with arrows, often accompanied by a varied number of companions, male and female, who are being martyred in assorted, often creative ways

1 saint

Saint Ursula

Young woman standing or sitting on a dragon

1 saint

Young woman wearing a crown on her head and a cross on her breast

1 saint