A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1871)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 71
their dogs, search out and care for travellers who are lost in the •passes of the mountains, where the storms are severe and the cold intense. St. Bernard died at Novara, at eighty-five years of age. His body is in the monastery at Novara, and his head is shown in a rich case at the monastery of… … and Ghibellines. He was St. Bernardino of Siena. offered three bishoprics, which he refused. The duke of Milan, offended at his preaching, threatened him in vain ; he then sent him money, with which he went to the prisons and liberated poor debtors. He founded the order called in Italy "…
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