A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 309
nt, and desiredher tomb to be opened. It was empty; thenthe Virgin, that he might be satisfied, droppedher girdle to him from the heavens. (See alsothe Madonna; the Assumption.) According toanother legend, when Thomas was at Caesarea,he had a vision in which Christ appeared, andtold him that… … St. Thomas. ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 291 Tliomas went, and Gondoforus gave him much treasure, and com-manded the building of the magnificent palace, and went to a distant country and remained two years. Thomas built no palace, butgave all the riches with which he had been intrusted to the poor andsick.…
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