A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 306
nchez de Ce-peda, and her motherwas named Beatrix. Sheherself is called TheresadAvila, on account ofthe place of her birth,which was Avila, in Cas-tile. Siie was bornMarch 28, 1515, andwas one of twelve broth-ers and sisters. Her fa-ther was exceedingly pi-ous, and her mother ex-tremely romantic.… … St. Theresa. ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 239 the lives of the saints and martyrs, and they conceived a passionatedesire to obtain the crown of martyrdom themselves. When butei<;ht or nine years of age they went into the country of the Moorsbegging, hoping to be taken and sacrificed by the infidels.…
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