A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 261
d go to a certain monastery wherehe would find a little girl of noble birth who was blind. He wascommanded to baptize her and call her name Ottilia, and promisedthat her sight should be given her. All this was done accordingto the vision. Her father repented of his wickednoss before hisdeath, and… … Hoheiiburg, of which ahe was abbess, and there she gathered onehundred and thirty nuns. Sheis ranked as a martyr on ac-count of her extreme auster-ities. She is represented in theblack Benedictine habit. Herattributes are the palm or cro-sier, and a book upon whichare two eyes. She is patronsaint…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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