To such concrete actualities the worshippers referred their sense of the invisible divinity.

The earth of Jerusalem, the Holy Sepulchre, the House of Loreto, the Sudarium of Saint Veronica, aroused their deepest sentiments of aweful adoration.

Like Thomas, they could not be contented with believing; they must also touch and handle.

At the same time, in apparent contradistinction to this demand for things of sense as signs of super-sensual power, the claims of dogma on the intellect grew more imperious, and mysticism opened for the dreaming soul a realm of spiritual rapture.

For the figurative arts there was no true place in either of these regions.