A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 150
ght he had no rightto lavish so much treasurefor the purposes of theChurch. Henry was no lessa soldier than a devotee, andafter defeating the seditiousnobles, he restored to themtheir possessions and treatedthem as if nothing had oc-curred. When he went towar to subject and convertPoland and… … ]3t LEGENDS AND STORIES tliree saints vrere visible, fighting by the side of Henry, and thwtthrou-h their aid he conquered. The Church of Mersebcrg wasbuilt to commemorate this victory. He also fought in Italy anddrove the Saracens from Apulia. Henry had an especial venera-tion for the Virgin, and…
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