It is asserted by one of the classical authors that stones were considered superior in two respects, first in being not subject to death, and second in not being harmful. That _Albion_ was harmless and beneficent is implied by the adjectives _bien_, _bonny_, _benevolent_, _bounteous_, and _benignant_. That St. Alban was similarly conceived is implied by the statement that this Lord's son of the City of Verulam was "a well disposed and seemly young man," who "always loved to do hospitality _granting meat and drink_ wherever necessary". That St. Alban was not only _Alpa_, the All Feeder, but that he was also _Alpe_, the High One and the Rock whence gushed a "living water," is clear from the statement: "Then at the last they came to the hill where this holy Alban should finish and end his life, in which place lay a great multitude of people nigh dead for heat of the sun, and for thirst. And then anon the wind blew afresh, cool, and also at the feet of this holy man Alban sprang up a fair well whereof all the people marvelled to see the cold water spring up in the hot sandy ground, and so high on the top of an hill, which water flowed all about and in large streams running down the hill. And then the people ran to the water and drank so that they were well refreshed, and then by the merits of St. Alban their thirst was clean quenched. But yet for all the great goodness that was showed they thirsted strongly for the blood of this holy man."[146] From this and other miraculous incidents in the life of St. Alban it would appear that the original compilers had in front of them some cartoons, cameos, or symbolic pictures of "The Kaadman," which had probably been recovered from the ruins of the ancient city. The authenticity of St. Alban's "life" is further implied by the frequency with which allusions are made to the blazing heat of the sun, a sunshine so great, so conspicuous, that it burnt and scalded the feet of the sightseers. The Latin for yellow, which is the colour of the golden sun, is _galbinus_, a word which like Kalbion resolves into _'g albinus_, the high or mighty Albanus. From _galbinus_ the French authorities derive their word _jaune_, but _jaune_ is simply _Joan_, _Jeanne_, _shine_, _shone_, or _sheen_. In Hebrew _Albanah_ or _Lebanah_ properly signifies the moon, and _albon_ means _strength_ and _power_, but more radically these terms may be connoted with our English surname Alibone and understood as either _holy good_, _wholly good_, or _all good_.