A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 308
o be opened. It was empty; thenthe Virgin, that he might be satisfied, droppedher girdle to him from the heavens. (See alsothe Madonna ; the Assumption.) According toanother legend, Avhen Thomas was at Ca;sarea,he had a vision in Avhicli Christ appeared, andtold him that Gondoforus, the king of the… … ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 291 Thomas went, and Gondoforus gave liim much treasure, and com-manded the building of the magnificent palace, and went to a distant country and remained two years. Thomas built no palace, butgave all the riches with which he had been intrusted to the poor andsick. When the…
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