Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 430
s and psalmody, they took him up tothe Altarelli — which is a small structure of threearches painted, in the Byzantine manner, withcurious stiff figures of saints. They set the imagein front of the lava ; the glass eyes stared at it invain. All the saints together could not workthis miracle, said… … stones upon tiles, with frequent explosions like thefiring of cannon. The images of the saints, SantAntonio and the others, were taken from their quietshelter in the churches, where candles were burnedand the floors and doorways were strewn with rose-petals and bunches of sweet herbs and the…
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