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THE OLD CHURCHES OF WIRRAL
not a corruption of St. Eilian, the Welsh
Pilgrim saint. In the church at
in the
Wallasey, St. Hilary is represented
mid light of the first window of the north
aisle carrying a book and treading on a
This is his traditional represent-
serpent.
ation, the serpent symbolising the Arian
heresy.
FRANCIS BOND :
J. BBOWNHILL :
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Dedications of English Churches.
Hist.
Ancient Church Dedications
Soc. Lane, and Ches., 1902).
(Trans.
Studies in Church
Dedications or England's Patron Saints.
FRANCIS ARNOLD FOSTER :
EDWARD HXTLME :
E. GELDART : Manual
Symbolism in Christian Art.
of Church Decoration and
S3rmbolism.
SMITH AND WACE : Dictionary of Christian Biography.
E. S. FFOULEES : Art. Consecration off Churches in
W. E. SCUDAHORE :
Dictionary of Christian Antiquities.
Art. Patron Saints. Ibid.
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