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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 489

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grotto of St. Baume, in which Mary Magdalene lived for thirty years infellowship with the angels who raised her into the air during her periodsof ecstasy, who brought her food and took every care of her, was, fromthe fifth or sixth century, a rendezvous for the faithful who came to visitthe dread… … Pig. 302.—Our Lady of Boulogne.— One day, so the legend goes, »the Virgin appeared tothe burghers and inhabitants of the town of Boulogne in a hull floating upon the sea,without mast, sail, rigging, or oars, having on board neither seaman nor any other living man,only a young virgin, full of grace…

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