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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 537

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s wereput to death: St. Cecilia, her husband, and her brother-in-law (Fig. 328)among the number. St. Cecilia was descended from a very ancient familywhich dated back to the time of Tarquin the Proud ; she belonged to thesame house as Metella, many of whose children were raised to the honoursof… … Fig. 329.—St. Savin and St. Cyprian brought before the Proconsul Maximus in 458, and confessingthat they were Christians.—Fresco in the Church of St. Savin (Vienne), the oldest extant inFrance (Eleventh Century) .—After the Drawings of M. Gerard-Seguin. converted to the faith by her arguments and…

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