A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 271
ORIES keeper of the entrance to Paradise and give him power to grant orrefuse admission. The Church of San Pietro in Vincoli at Rome,was built by Eudoxia, wife of Valentinian III., to preserve the chainswith which St. Peter was bound at Jerusalem. The chains are pre-served in a bronze tabernacle in… … St. 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 picturem the Munich Gallery, he not only walks himself, but a lay brothergoes with him, whom Peter seems to encourage by pointing toheaven. October 19, a. d.…
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