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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 446

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institutions. The most important, in point of utility,was the extension of the hospitaller order of St. Lazarus. The Lazarists had two hospitals in Jerusalem, when Godfroi de Bouillonentered the holy city with the Crusaders (1099). Subsequently Louis VIII.,having induced these monks to send some of… … Fig. 271.—St. Louis serving a llepast to the Poor—Miniature from the Petites Hcures of Anneof Brittany, which belonged to Catherine de Medicis (beginning of the Sixteenth Century),in the Library of M. Ambroise Pirmin-Didot. These monks were also endowed with a rich domain at Boigny, near…

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