A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 264
ld go to a certain monastery wherehe would 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 was done accordingto the vision. Her father repented of his wickedness before hisdeath, and… … Holienburg, of which ahe was abbess, and there she gathered on«ihundred 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 whichare two eyes. She is patronsaint…
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