A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 249
mit of a rock in the Gulf o/ 230 LEGENDS AND STORIES Avranclies, 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 and aspring of pure water, and the church should be made to… … (Martin 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 completedby William the Conqueror. Mont-Saint-Michel became one ofthe most celebrated…
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