A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 309
ine habit; liis midnight penances,when he walked alone in the cloisters bewailing his past sins; hiswashing the feet of the pilgrims and beggars; his angry conferencewith the king; their reconciliation at Friatville; his progress throughthe city of London, when the grateful and enthusiastic people… … (After a print by Vosterumnn.) St. Tbomas i Becket. -ibmitting to be scourged in penance for his crime. It was hismartyrdom which made him a saint, and gave liim a place in art.When he was made archbishop he ceased to be chancellor, andbecame a diflerent man, and especially so to King Henry. He…
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