A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 246
mmit of a rock in the Gulf of 230 LEGENDS AND STORIES Avranclies, io Normandy. This rock is inaccessible at high water,and has been celebrated as an impregnable fortress. The bishopvas also told that a bull would be found concealed there and aspring of pure water, and the church should be made to… … (Martin Schoen.) St. Michael, and left there a mark which never disappeared. After this a smallchurch was built which was afterAvards replaced by a magnificentabbey, commenced by Richard, Duke of Normandy, and completedby William the Conqueror. Mont-Saint-Michel became one ofthe most celebrated…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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