A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 306
t, and desiredher tomb to be opened. It was empty; thenthe Virgin, that he might be satisfied, droppedher girdle to him jfrom the heavens. (See alsothe Madonna; the Assumption.) According toanother legend, when Thomas was at Caesarea,he had a vision in which Christ appeared, andtold hkn that… … St. Thomas. ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 291 Thomas -vreni, and Gondoforus gave him much treas.ure, and com-manded the building of the magnificent palace, and went to a distant country and remained two years. Thomas built no palace, butgave all the riches with which he had been intrusted to the poor…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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