A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 263
a certain monastery wherehe woidd find a little <iirl of noble birth who was blind. He wascommanded to baptize her and call her name Ottilia, and promisedthat her sio;ht should be o-iven her. All this was done accordingto the vision. Her father repented of his Avickedness before hisdeath, and… … Holienburrr, of Avliicli ^lie was abbess, and tliere she gathered onehundred and thirty nuns. Sheis ranked as a martyr on ac-count of her extreme auster-ities. She is represented in theblack Benedictine habit. Herattributes are the pahn or cro-sier, and a book upon whichare two eyes. She is…
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