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 436
Theodosius, whowas called augusta, and who already, at the death of her father the EmperorArcadius, though at that time only sixteen, was a model of piety andwisdom ; she established so severe a rule of life and such complete asce-ticism around her, that her palace was commonly the convent… … Fig. 267.—The Holy Brothers, Cosmas and Damianue (end of the Third Century), visiting a sickman and relieving him.—Picture on wood, hy Francesco Peselli, in the Louvre (FifteenthCentury). family at that time exiled in the forests of Pontus, were also distinguishedby the same virtues; to wit,…
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