A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 151
]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… … St. Cuueguada tested by the Ordeal. her. On one occasion at Yerdun, he was seized with such a disgustand weariness of his imperial life and duties that he desired to be-•^ome a monk. The prior told him his first duty would be that ofcbedience, and when Henry declared himself ready to obey, hemade…
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