A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 248
t of a rock in the Gulf of 230 LEGENDS AND STORIES Avranclies, in Normandy. This rock is inaccessible at liigh water,and has been celebrated as an impregnable fortress. The bishopwas 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 disapi)eared. After tliis a smallchurch was built which was afterwards rc])laced by a magnificentabbey, commenced by Richard, Duke of Normandy, and completedby William the Concpieror. Mont-Saint-Michel became one ofthe most celebrated…
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