Legends of the monastic orders as represented in the fine arts : forming the second series of Sacred and Legendary art (1863)
Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 · London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green · leaf 124
famous by St. Werburga ; there he learned to read, and having studied the lives of the hermit fathers he determined to imitate them. He retired to a vast marshy wilderness on the eastern shore, where was a sort of island, as much infested by demons as the deserts of Egypt. And they led St. Gruthlac… … (Ancient 10 St. Guthlac. St. Guthlac, holding a whip, his proper English sculpture.)
Saints · Christian saints in art · Christian art and symbolism · Monasticism and religious orders
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