There is a window of stained glass, said to be _cinque-cento_, in the westernmost bay of the south aisle of St. James' Church, Bury St. Edmunds, of which the three lower lights represent the trial of Susanna. In the centre Susanna's bath takes the form of a deep font, in which she is standing. The Elders are clothed in purple.[56]
In Sumner's _Antiquities of Canterbury_, 1703, the second figure in the third window of the cathedral is described as "Daniel in medio seniorum," and this inscription is given:
"Mirantur pueri seniores voce doceri Sic responsa dei sensum stupent Pharasaei."
(Reprinted in _Ancient Glass Painting_, by an Amateur, Oxf. 1848, p. 355.)
In the scheme of stained glass for Truro cathedral there are several apocryphal subjects, including a window in the south-east transept having "Susanna and the Mother of the Seven Martyrs" for its subjects (Donaldson, _Bishopric of Truro_, 1902, App. V.).
A carved chimney-piece exists in Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, representing Susanna and the Elders (Murray, _Handbook to Northumberland_, 1873, p. 326).
This scene has been a wonderfully popular one with painters. Altdorfer, Carracci, Correggio, A. Coypel, van Dyck, Guercino, Rembrandt, Rubens, Santerre, Tintoretto, Valentin, and P. Veronese may be named amongst those who have treated it. A picture entitled 'Susanna' was exhibited in the Royal Academy, London, in 1886, by Fred. Goodall, R.A.
Thus we see that the many picturesque incidents in this Addition have not been overlooked by Christian artists in search of subjects for the brush or the chisel. Of these three supplementary sections of Daniel the History of Susanna has, in this respect, been found much the most suggestive; probably as the one which is thought to contain the highest passion and feeling.
"EXAMPLE OF LIFE AND INSTRUCTION OF MANNERS."
In the character of _Susanna_ we see unconquerable _Purity_ in thought and deed; prayerful _Trust_ in God under a false and cruel accusation,[57] and, in the face of death, securing deliverance from an unexpected quarter (_cf. v. 60 with II. Cor. i. 10). With v. 55 Hippolytus compares Tob. iii. 2 (Vulgate). The parallels drawn by St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine will be found under 'Early Christian Literature,' p. 167. Susanna's trouble may be taken as a conspicuous illustration of Ps. xxxiv. 19.