Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

St. Adrian

represented, in Christian art, with an anvil, and a sword or axe close by it. He had his limbs cut off on a smith's anvil, and was afterwards beheaded. St. Adrian is the patron saint of the Flemish brewers.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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