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Millstones are used in windmills and watermills for grinding wheat or other grains. The type of stone most suitable for making millstones is a siliceous rock called buhrstone (or burrstone), an open-textured, porous but tough, fine-grained sandstone, or a silicified, fossiliferous limestone. In some sandstones, the cement is calcareous. Old millstones were sometimes tied around the necks of the condemned in order to keep them under water.

Associated in Art with

• Pope Saint Callistus I
• Saint Aurea of Ostia
• Saint Christina of Bolsena
• Saint Florian of Lorch
• Saint Victor of Marseilles
• Saint Vincent of Saragossa

Additional Information

• Patrons of Millers
• Saints who were Millers

MLA Citation

• “millstone“. Emblems of the Faith. CatholicSaints.Info. 6 December 2008. Web. 26 April 2024. <>