A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1871)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 242
230 LEGENDS AND STORIES Avranches, in Normandy. This rock is inaccessible at high water, and has been celebrated as an impregnable fortress. The bishop was also told that a bull Avould be found concealed there and a spring of pure water, and the church should be made to cover as much ground as the… … (Martin Schoen.) St. Michael. and left there a mark which never disappeared. After this a small church was built which was afterwards replaced by a magnificent abbey, commenced by Richard, Duke of Normandy, and completed by William the Conqueror. Mont- Saint-Michel became one of the most celebrated…
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