A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 95
Offero did so, and the staff was soon covered with leaves,And the dates hung in huge clusters upon it. But the wonderfulcnild was gone. Then Offero knew that it was Christ whom hehad borne, and he fell down and worshipped Him. After that,Offero went to Sanios, where there was a great persecution of… … ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 77 of Lycia, in wliicli country was Sanios. At the jiglit of the giantthe king fainted. When he was liimself again he said, Who artthou ? and the giant answered, My first name was Oifero, theBearer, but now I serve Christ, and have borne him on my shoul-ders; for this I am now…
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