A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 269
IES keeper of the entrance to Paradise and give him power to grant orrefuse admission. The Chm-ch of San Pietro in Vincoli at Rome,was built by Eudoxia, wife of Valentinian III., to preserve the chainsAvith which St. Peter was bound at Jerusalem. The chains are pre-served in a bronze tabernacle in… … Peter of Alcantara St. Peter of Alcantara was not canonized until 1669. Ac-cording to the legend he walked on the sea by faith. In a picturein the Munich Gallery, he not only walks himself, but a lay brothergoes with him, whom Peter seems to encourage by pointing tcheaven. October 19, A. D. 1562.…
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