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The châteaux of Touraine (1906)

Lansdale, Maria Hornor, b. 1860, Guérin, Jules Vallée, 1866-1946, Mills, Harold Palmer. fmo · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 114

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ry, sent the Count ofAnjou off some twenty years later on his last pilgrimage tothe Holy Land. No one was ever more solicitous for the sal-vation of his own soul, and he had already twice made that longand weary journey. On one of these occasions he is describedas having had himself dragged half… … r--. - J!il?\fn:j- :^ LOCHES him with a whip; and he brought back, as a gift for the churchat Loches, a piece of the true Cross which he tore ofif withhis teeth! His faith in the power of the saints and of holy rehcs was in-deed almost incredible, yet his treatment of them was strangelyirreverent.…

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