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 434
said to him, I know that you have gold andsilver vessels for your sacrifices ; let me have these treasures, which the princerequires for maintaining his troops. The holy deacon replied, I knowthat our church is rich; I will let you have all its most valuable contents,but you must give me three days… … Fig. 266.—Pope Sixtus II. handing to St. Laurentius, in 258, the Treasures of the Church, to hedistributed amongst the Poor.—Fresco, painted by Fra Angelico, in the Chapel of Nicholas V.in the Vatican (Fifteenth Century). appointed day, and St. Laurentius, pointing to the crowd of halt and…
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