A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 262
a certain monastery Avherelie Avould find a little girl of noble birth who was blind. He wascommanded to baptize her and call her name Ottilia, and promisedthat her sight should be given her. All this Avas done accordingto the vision. Her father repented of his Avickedness before hisdeath, and gave… … Holienburii, of which ahe was abbess, and there she gathered onehundred and thirty nuns. Sheis ranked as a martyr on ac-count of her extreme auster-ities. She is represented in theblack Benedictine habit. Herattributes are the palm or cro-sier, and a book upon whicharc two eyes. She is patronsaint…
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