Capitolo 45
One of the bells of St. Patrick are known, in Celtic, as it tuned up the "white,"
while another has called the to play black."" This is a first and
curious example of the association make up for-aware of the qualities
of sound with those of colour. The of Viollet Duc it says as a blind man
he/she wondered if he knew what the red colour was. He responded, "Sì:
red is the sound of the trumpet." And the great same architect,
when a child, was brought by his/her nanny in the Cathedral of Notre
Dame in Paris, where he cried with terror because he imagined that
the various organ note that he felt you/he/she had been launching to him
windows give of glass every represented by a different,
colour in the glass!
[The illustration: Shrine Of You Bell Of Street PATRICK]
But the most famous bell in the connection with St. Patrick is that
known by his/her his/her own name and brought with his/her relics by Columbkille
only sixty years after the death of the saint. The external case is a
example very rich in Celtic job. On a brass earth, fine
gold and silver filigree you/he/she is applied, in curious it laces and he/she knots,
and you/he/she has put with many jewels, some of great ransom, in green,
blue, and dull red. In the forehead it is two great Irish fatten up-cut
diamonds and a bystander you/he/she had apparently put in a place what time it is
vacant. On the back of the bell a Celtic registration appears more in
decorative registration all on the edge; the literal translation
of this is: "A prayer for Donnell O'Lochlain, through who this
shrine of bell was made; and for Donnell, the successor of Patrick,
with whom was done; and for Cahalan O'Mulhollan, the custodian of
the bell, and for Cudilig O'Immainen, with his/her children that covered
it." Donald O'Lochlain was monarch of Ireland in 1083. Donald the
successor of Patrick was the abbot of Armagh, from 1091 to 1105.
Evidently the others were the artisans that worked on the shrine.
In many it laces, especially on the sides, there you/he/she can be traced
tangled models formed of snakes, but as almost all Celtic