A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 237
the hearers, the learnedarguments of tongue and pen, andthe wild, imaginative legendswhich have each and all essayedto give and establish the truth aboutthis saint, have left her, in theheart of the world, what the gospelalone and unaided makes her, — thefirat sinning and repenting womanforgiven… … :^22 LEGENDS AND STORTES never been decided whether she was diiferently spoken of as ** Maryof Bethany, the woman who was a sinner. and she out ofwhom Jesus cast seven devils, or whether she was but one ofthese; but the legend as it is generally represented in westernart is as follows : Mary…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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