Show HALO FOR FOR SATAN Certainly most of us would be surprised surprised sur sur- to see sec a a. picture of the devil with a halo above his head We Ve have I become accustomed to recognize the halo as a perquisite of sacred persons most of whom are arc pai painted l with this aura around their head But In the olden times the devil was vas as also painted with a halo of his own own as pictures will bear witness and long before his satanic majesty came to be bea bea I I a figure in Christian religion other men were represented by painters and I mosaic workers as having a halo over their heads In Iii fact this custom ante antedates ates Christianity Itself The rhe halo sa sacred red now was a pagan invention in Roman noman emperors and other personages were always accorded a halo by painters It was the s symbol of power And what more natural than to invest Satan I with a a. halo when Christianity took hold of mens men's minds minds' For he was the supreme embodiment of wickedness I of power diverted to bad I |