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 461
ment, or most insignificant object{tantillm reliquia) that had belonged to a blessed martyr, and more espe.cially anything which represented a material reminder of the glorious death 364 PILGRIMAGES. which a Christian had won in confessing the Gospel, was carefully preservedas a relic. Thus the… … Fig. 280.-St. Barbara, a Maiden of Nicomedia, who suffered Martyrdom in the Third Century.—Drawn with the pen and pencil by John Van Eyck, called John of Bruges, in honour of thebuilding of a church dedicated to her.—In the Museum at Antwerp (Fifteenth Century). and concealed the mortal remains of…
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