A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 256
the plague waastayed. He is also represented in art as restoring a child to life,and doing many other miracles. He is painted in the black habitof his Order, with a star on his breast; he often bears a crucifixT/reathed with lilies typical of the purity and austerity of his life.September 10, a. d.… … St. Nicholas of Tolentino. 240 LEGENDS AND S TO HIES an interesting manner. He was a Greek, born neai* Tarentiini. Itwap not until after the loss of liis wife, whom he loved devotedly, thatl.e embraced a religious vocation. He took the habit of the GreekOrder of St. Basil, and was soon made the…
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