A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 257
He never allowedhimself to taste animalfood, and when he wasvery weak he refused adish of doves that hisbrethren brought him, andwaved his hand above thedish, when the doves roseup and flew away. Tradi-tion teaches that at thehour of his birth a brill-iant star shot through theheavens from Sant… … St. Nicholas of Tolentino. of St. Nicholas of Tolentino to be carried throuo;h the citv insolemn procession, on the day which was observed as the festivalof that saint. Father G. de Uavas bearing a crucifix, met theprocession, when the figure of Christ stooped from the cross, avdembraced that of…
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