"Sapphire has the sky's color.
It signifies those who are placed on earth aspire for heavenly things,
and who despise all worldly matters just as if they were not on earth, thus:
"Our commonwealth is in Heaven."
-Bishop Marbode of Rennes, Antiquity's most highly esteemed lapidarist.
"Sapphire has the sky's color.
It signifies those who are placed on earth aspire for heavenly things,
and who despise all worldly matters just as if they were not on earth, thus:
"Our commonwealth is in Heaven."
-Bishop Marbode of Rennes, Antiquity's most highly esteemed lapidarist.
