Thus there are three aisles, and three entrances each with three doors; if you count the pillars of the nave, you will count twice three on each side.

The transept aisles again have each three bays and three pillars, the windows are in threes under the three great roses.

So, you see, Notre Dame is full of the Trinity." "And it is also the great store-house of Mediaeval painting and sculpture." "Yes, and like other Gothic cathedrals, it is the completest and most trustworthy collection of symbolism; for the allegories we fancy we can interpret in Romanesque churches are on the whole but artificial and doubtful--and that is quite conceivable.

The Romanesque is a convert, a pagan turned monk.

It was not born Catholic as the pointed arch was; it only became so by baptism conferred by the Church.