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| Agatha | Carrying her breasts in a dish. |
| Agathon | A book and crozier. |
| Agnes | A lamb at her side. |
| Anasta’sia | A palm branch. |
| Andrew | A saltire cross. |
| Anne | A book in her hand. |
| Anthony | A tau cross, with a bell at the end, and a pig by his side. |
| Apollo’nia | A tooth and palm branch. She is applied to by those who suffer from toothache. |
| Asaph and Aydan | A crozier. |
| Barbara | A book and palm branch. |
| Barnabas | A staff in one hand and an open book in the other; or a rake. |
| Bartholomew | A knife; ora processional cross. |
| Blaise | Iron combs, with which his body was torn to pieces. |
| Bridget | A crozier and book. |
| Catherine | An inverted sword, or large wheel. |
| Cecilia | Playing on a harp or organ |
| Christopher | A gigantic figure carrying Christ over a river |
| Clare | A palm branch |
| Clement | A papal crown, or an anchor. He was drowned with an anchor tied round his neck; also a pot |
| CrispinandCrispian | Two shoemakers at work |
| Cuthbert | St. Osbald’s head in his hand |
| David | A leek, in commemoration of his victory over the Saxons |
| Denys | Holding his mitred head in his hand |
| Dorothy | Carrying a basket of fruit |
| Edward the Confessor | Crowned with a nimbus, and holding a sceptre |
| Elizabeth | St. John and the lamb at her feet |
| Faith | A gridiron |
| Felix | An anchor |
| Flower | Her head in her hand, and a flower sprouting out of her neck |
| Francis | A seraph inflicting the five wounds of Christ; or a lily on a trampled globe |
| Fyacre | Arrayed in a long robe, praying and holdings his beads in one hand |
| Gabriel | A flower-pot full of lilies between him and the Virgin |
| George | Mounted on horseback, and transflxing a dragon |
| Giles | A bind, with its head in the saint’s lap |
| Ignatius | The monogram I.H.S. on the breast or in the sky, circled with a glory. Fairhold says the mystery of the Trinity was thus revealed to him |
| James the Greater | A pilgrim’s staff; or a scallop shell |
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| James the Less | A fuller’s pole. He was killed by Simon the fuller |
| John Baptist | A camel-hair garment, small rude cross, and a lamb at his feet |
| John Evangelist | A chalice, out of which a dragon or serpent is issuing, and an open book; or a young man with an eagle in the background. (Ezekiel vii. 1–10.) |
| Jerome | A blue hat, and studying a large folio volume |
| Jude | With a club or lance |
| Julian | Ferrying travellers across a stream |
| Lawrence | A book and gridiron |
| Louis | A king kneeling, with the arms of France at his feet; a bishop blessing him, and a dove descending on his head |
| Loy | A crozier and hammer. He is the patron saint of smiths |
| Lucy | With a short staff in her hand and the devil behind her; or with eyes in a dish. (See LUCY.) |
| Luke | Sitting at a reading-desk, beneath which appears an ox’s head; or pictorially engaged upon a Bambino. (Ezekiel vii. 1–10.) |
| Margaret | Treading on a dragon, or piercing it with the cross |
| Mark | A man seated writing, with a lion couchant at his feet |
| Martin | On horseback, dividing his cloak with a beggar behind him on foot |
| Mary the Virgin | Carrying the child Jesus, and a lily is somewhere displayed |
| Mary Magdalen | A box of ointment |
| Matthew | With a halberd, with which Nadabar killed him. As an evangelist, he holds a pen, with which he is writing on a scroll. The most ancient symbol is a man’s face. (Ezekiel vii. 1–10.) |
| Michael | In armour, with a cross, or else holding scales, in which he is weighing souls |
| Nicholas | A tub with naked infants in it. He is patron saint of children |
| Paul | A sword and a book. Dressed as a Roman |
| Peter | Keys and a triple cross; or a fish; or a cock |
| Philip | A pastoral staff, surmounted with a cross. He was hung on a tall pillar |
| Roche | A wallet, and a dog with a loaf in its mouth sitting by. He shows a boil in his thigh |
| Sebastian | Bound to a tree, his arms tied behind him, and his body transfixed with arrows. Two archers stand by his side; sometimes presenting a sheaf of arrows to the Lord |
| Simon | A saw, because he was sawn asunder |
| Stephen | A book and a stone in his hand |
| Theodora | The devil holding her hand, and tempting her |
| Theodore | Armed with a halberd in his hand, and with a sabre by his side |
| Thomas | With a builder’s rule, or a stone in his hand, or holding the lance with which he was slain at Meliapour |
| Thomas of Canterbury | Kneeling, and a man behind him striking at him with a sword |
| Ursula | A book and arrows, She was shot through with arrows by the Prince of the Huns |
