A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 99
hariot ai.dsaid, Far better is it that Jshould die, than cause the deathof these innocents. He thencommanded the children to berestored to the mothers, andgave them large gifts to com-pensate for their sufferings.That night in his sleep, St. Pe-ter and St. Paul appeared tohim, and told him that… … ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 81 persecute the Christians, and himself •worship their God. NowSylvester was the bishop of Rome, who had hid away from thecruelties of Constantine and was in a cave near Monte Calvo.The emperor sent for him, and when the soldiers found him andled him away, he thought it was to…
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