Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London [etc.] : T.N. Foulis · leaf 91
h was notedby the traveller Bowles. The curate of the place, a worthy fellowwho put me up in his house, assured me that a detachment of a legionof locusts entered the church, ate up the silk clothes upon the images,and gnawed the varnish on the altars. Perhaps these adamantine-stomached insects… … SAINT JAMES IN PILGRIMS DRESS (Silver-gilt statuette; i$th Century.Santiago Cathedral) GOLD, SILVER, AND JEWEL WORK sented by the third Alfonso in the year of grace874,1 and the hideous fourteenth-century reliquaryshaped to represent the head of James Alfeo, andcontaining (as it is believed) this…
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