Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · London : Isbister & company, limited · leaf 33
e him always the same fear-less, simple figure, restlessly working for others, as much athome at the court of the warrior king of England, surroundedby his mailed barons and captains, as in the sad precincts ofa leper hospital, or among his rough workmen who werebuilding for him his stately… … THE MONK AND THE KING. 19 language of birds, and could talk with them and tell them hiskind, sweet thoughts. In most of the ancient as well as in the more modernpaintings and sculptures in which St. Hugh is represented,a large white swan is introduced close to the figure of thesaint. The story of…
Abbeys · Monasticism and religious orders
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