Here's an angelic bear aware of its own halo.  (Compare to the saintly jackdaw aware of its own halo.)  From Review of Reviews and World's Work, 1890.

Here's a blooming halo from Iconographie Chrétienne by Adolphe Napoléon Didron, 1843.

Here's a saintly jackdaw aware of its own halo, from Illustrated British Ballads, Old and New, edited by George Barnett Smith, 1886.

Here's a rare view of the backside of a halo, or perhaps a precursor to Margaret Atwood's "halo in reverse" (Lady Oracle, 1987), from Im Reiche des Aeolus by Adolph von Pereira, 1883.

A Retroactive Lifetime Goal*: we've been dubbed "the patron saint of 'going with it'"!

*The phrase "Retroactive Lifetime Goal" appears courtesy of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.

An illustration from The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story by H. Rider Haggard (1911).  The caption reads: "Changed indeed, mysterious, wonderful."

A halo of hair from a 1900 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from an 1881 issue of Frank Leslie's Sunday magazine.  The caption reads: "The paraselenae, or mock moons, that appeared over Denver, Colorado on Feb. 14, 1882."

A valentine from a 1903 issue of Life magazine.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: