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A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 239

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of the hearers, the learnedarguments of tongue and pen, andthe wild, imaginative leo-endswliich have each and all essayedto give and establish the truth aboutthis saint, have left her, in theheart of the icorld, Avhat the gospelalone and unaided makes her, — thefirfit sinning and repenting… … St. Mary 222 LEGENDS AND STORIES never been decided whether she was differently spoken of as Maiyof Bethany, the woman who was a sinner, and she • out ofwhom Jesus cast seven devils, or whether slie was but one ofthese; but the legend as it is generally represented in westernart is as follows :…

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