skull Dec 282008 Emblem in art, symbolic of meditation and of detachment from the world, usually associated with hermits and solitaries. Saints, beati and Venerables profiled on this site who are have the skull as an emblem include
![[skull]](http://saints.sqpn.com/wp-content/gallery/new-catholic-dictionary/skull.jpg "73kb jpg photograph of a detail of stained glass window depicting Golgotha, Abraham van Linge, c.1629, Lincoln College chapel, Oxford, England; swiped with permission from the flickr account of Brother Lawrence Lew, OP")