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Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)

Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 417

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ssful mission that ended in the establishment of two monasteries, atCracow and at Kiew. In these still barbarous regions, St. Hedwige, the wifeof a duke of Poland, who died in 1243, founded at Trebnitz a convent ofthe Cistercian order, and at about the same period a queen of Castille createdone at… … Fig. 259.—Maria de Molina, Queen of Castille (1284—1321), handing to the Cistercian Nuns theCharter of Foundation for their convent.—Bas-relief from her Tomh at Valladolid.—From anEngraving in the Iconografia Espafiola of M. Carderera. The poor and docile religious militia organized by St. Francis…

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