The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers (1899)
Sachse, Julius Friedrich, 1842-1919 · Philadelphia : Printed for the author · leaf 409
ORNAMENTAL DESIGN IN ELOSTER SPECIMEN BOOK, CHAPTER XXI.THE ROSTER OF THE CELIBATES. … OW that the monastic featurewas adopted by both orders ofsolitary, and the vain clothing ofthe world with its varigated hues,ornaments and furbelows hadbeen renounced for the peniten-tial robe of the early Christians,the next step was to sink theiridentity still further by droppingthe Babylonian…
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