Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each attribute by what it refers to.
Groups: The manner of death or torture · An episode from the life · A function or office
- Sebastian's arrows
- Peter's keys
- Catherine's wheel
- A bishop's crozier
- Lawrence's gridiron
- Jerome's lion
Hints
- Most attributes come from a death; a few from a story or an office.
- A crozier identifies a role rather than a person.
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The manner of death or torture: Lawrence's gridiron, Catherine's wheel, Sebastian's arrows
An episode from the life: Jerome's lion
A function or office: Peter's keys, A bishop's crozier
Why
The proportions are informative. Most attributes come from a martyrdom, which tells you what the cult of saints was organised around, and the ones that identify an office rather than a person, like the crozier, function differently: they narrow the category without naming the individual.
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