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A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)

Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 284

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on which thebrethren of his Order ascended by twos and threes, and all dressedin white. So he immediately changed the color, which had beenblack, and white has ever since been worn by the Camaldolesi.Thirty years after his secession from his first convent he had becomefamous throughout the north of… … (National Gallery.) St. Romualdo. ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 269 St. Romulo (Lat. Sanctus Romulus) was a noble Roman, whom, according to the legend, St. Peter sent to preach to the people ofFiesole, which was then a most important Etruscan city. After thusbeing the apostle he became the first bishop of…

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