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 463
l more in the fifth, that it 366 PILGRIMAGES. became necessary to regulate this display of devotion by some strict rules ofdiscipline. Many ecclesiastical writers, while deploring the abuses to whichit gave rise, were unable to point out any effectual remedy; it being difficultto separate the wheat… … Fig. 281.— Count Eenier bearing the Body of St. Veronica to the Church of St. Waudru, inMons.—After a Miniature in the Chroniques de Hainaut (Manuscript of the FifteenthCentury), Burgundian Library, Brussels. Every church, abbey, and chapel became at this period a place of refuge,ever open for…
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