A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 62
There was achurch in that city ded-icated to him. April 25,A. D. 86. St. Anna, the motherof the Blessed Virgin,whose name signifiesgracious, is much hon-ored in the Church, andnumerous miracles havebeen attributed to her.About 550, Justinian I.built a church at Con-stantinople, and dedi-cated it to… … 44 LEGENDS AND STORIES quillinus. His nurse, a Cliristian woman, named Maxima, had himsecretly. baptized. His faith was not disclosed until he was nine-teen years old, when he began to preach with great success. Hesuffered much during the persecution of Diocletian, and was at lastbeheaded on the…
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