Show OSAIC ORIGIN OF THE HALO dto Have Been Placed Over Stators Stat-ors of Saints to Preserve Them The origin of the halo dates back the eleventh and twelfth centuries ose years were rich In the building churches and cathedrals There ere erected around the outside ate at-e eacrpd edifices statues of the nts placed under the eaves In ce the caretakers of the buildings reeked that tho discoloration from e rains falling from the roofs dls red the Images Accordingly they iced over the tops of them flat wood i disks of sufficient size to protect It statues Glotto began to paint fares when a boy and his Igno ce assumed the protecting disks as I i essential part of the saint His IIest pictures represent each sacred I ore topped off with what looks much e the bottom of a barrel He ideal el this Into a circle dark at first it growing t more luminous with each ccessful production of his artistic I scy until he developed tho clrclo light that has come down un angel through generations of paint us a badge of sanctity |