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 508
cly in the free towns of Germany. An excess of devotion, which had its origin in the wish to avert the wrathof God, gave birth in Italy quite spontaneously to the sect known as theFlagellants. This strange infatuation for scourging began at Perugia, whence HERESIES. 407 it passed to Rome and… … Fig. 312.—Heresy of the Flagellants.—The Latin inscription upon the streamer borne by theBishop of Hippona signifies, They sacrifice to Satan, and not to God.—Fac-simile of aMiniature in the Cite de Dieu, by St. Augustine (Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century, inSt. Genevieve Library, Paris).…
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