a coronet on the head of the Mother of Christ and Christendom. Across the heavens there sweeps from time to time a more than tropical storm of thunder, lightning, and hail, followed by earthquake. Human life supplies an abundance of imagery. We see the mother and her child, the harlot and her lovers, the bride arrayed for her husband. Crowned heads wear the στέφανος or the διάδημα; warriors carry the two-edged sword; the shepherd appears with his iron-tipped staff, the reaper with his sickle, the