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 438
. Paula, who was Roman by birth, and a descendant of theScipios, whose daughters were saints, whose theatre of action was in theEast, whose tomb was at Bethlehem, and whose panegyrist was St. Jerome,followed in her footsteps. A widow at thirty, she effected a sweeping changein her own household and… … Fig. 268.—Robert I., Duke of Burgundy, havingslain his father-in-law, builds the Church ofSemur to expiate the crime, and has the parriciderepresented on the building.—Tympan in the por-tico of the Church of Semur (Eleventh Century). worked miracles of charity. Long before her death, in 404, she…
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