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 421
ablished in Sweden; nor GerhardGroot, surnamed the Great (1340—1384), founder, in Holland, of theBrethren of the Common Life, who devoted their time to the teaching ofthe poor, and whose chief occupation was to copy the books of the Fathersand of other ecclesiastical writers. The disorder prevalent… … Fig. 261.—St. Anthony of Padua, a Franciscan Friar, anxious to demonstrate to a heretic, whoasked him to perform a miracle, the truth of the Holy Sacrament of the Altar, commands amule to adore the Eucharist. The mule, though ravenously hungry, refuses the oats that hismaster is sifting, and kneels…
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