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 stones to the cathedral site. Winged and nimbed ox : S. Luke. Ox goad : Cain. (Webber, 1938)
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