A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 61
There was achurch in that city ded-icated to him. April 25,A. D. 86. St. Anna, the motherof the Blessed Virgin,whose name signifiesfrracious, is much hon-ored in the Church, andnumerous miracles havebeen attributed to her.About 550, Justinian I.built a church at Con-stantinople, and dedi-cated it… … m^mmmmmm 44 LEGENDS AND STORIES quilUnus. His nurse, a Christian woman, named jNlaxima, had himsecretly baptized. His faith was not disclosed until he was nine-teen years old, when he began to preach with great success. liesuffered much during the persecution of Diocletian, and was at lastbeheaded…
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