A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 247
a rock in the Gulf of 230 LEGENDS AND STORIES Avranclie?, in Normandy. This rock is inaccessible at liigh water,and has been celebrated as an impregnable fortress. The bishopwas also told that a bull would be found concealed there aa<l aspring of pure water, and the church should be made to… … (Martia Schoen.) St. Michael. and left there a mark which never disappeared. After this a smallchurch was built which was afterwards replaced by a magnificentabbey, commenced by Richard, Duke of Normandy, and complete!Iby William the Conqueror. Mont-Saint-!Michel became one ofthe most celebrated…
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