Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
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e horse and his name that sat on him was Death, andHell followed with him. All these figures were vividly seen by the Faithfulof the Middle Ages; they haunted his dreams, theysoothed or terrified him; and they appear again andagain in his churches and show a far greater and moreliteral familiarity… … A CATHEDRAL-DOOR. CHARTRES. Symbolism 119 became so venerable in the eyes of the pious that, dur-ing his Pontificate from 1352 to 1362, Pope InnocentIII affirmed in a Bull that the Lance, Nail, and otherinstruments of the Passion are everywhere to be heldin reverence of all Christian people, and he…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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