Patience. Strength. Service. Endurance. Sacrifice. Our Lord’s Sacrifice. Ox and ass: The Jewish people, who bore the yoke of the Law, and the Gentiles who accepted the peace and humility of our Lord. On the great towers of Laon the carved oxen represent the animals who drew the great stonesto the cathedralsite. Winged and nimbed ox : S. Luke. Ox goad : Cain. (Webber, 1938)
