A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 97
asion, when the Saracens, to whom Frederick hadgiven the fortress of Nocera, came to ravage her convent of San Da-miano, she arose from her bed where she had so long been conffned,and placing the Pyx Avhich contained the Host upon the thresholdshe kneeled down and began to sing, when the infidels… … ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 79 trance, believing herself called to heaven by angelic voices. Hersister Agnes succeeded her as abbess. When the nuns removed fromSan Damiano to San Giorgio they bore her remains with them. Thisis now the Church of Santa Chlara d Assisi, and Is the most famousone of her order.…
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