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... body , who form the rule , and not the exception . And for the desecrations and profanities of Protestantism , a great deal more might have been said of much sterner and darker reality . Some years spent in the study of church ...
... body , who form the rule , and not the exception . And for the desecrations and profanities of Protestantism , a great deal more might have been said of much sterner and darker reality . Some years spent in the study of church ...
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... body they bore with them a part , to relieve them in their present distress . In the course of the night a gurgling sound was heard in the bowels of the earth ; and a copious stream suddenly spouted forth from under the very stone on ...
... body they bore with them a part , to relieve them in their present distress . In the course of the night a gurgling sound was heard in the bowels of the earth ; and a copious stream suddenly spouted forth from under the very stone on ...
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... body was brought by a few faithful followers to the scene of his mi- raculous intercession , and laid , in the dead of the night , in the green sward , with a lowly cross of wood to mark the spot . What better site than a mar- tyr's ...
... body was brought by a few faithful followers to the scene of his mi- raculous intercession , and laid , in the dead of the night , in the green sward , with a lowly cross of wood to mark the spot . What better site than a mar- tyr's ...
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... body of the ecclesiastics came the Lord Kynas- tone , leading his daughter Etheldreda on his arm , and escorting the members of his family and the several guests who had been invited to attend the ceremony . When all had taken their ...
... body of the ecclesiastics came the Lord Kynas- tone , leading his daughter Etheldreda on his arm , and escorting the members of his family and the several guests who had been invited to attend the ceremony . When all had taken their ...
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... body , vesture , bones , or blood , of a saint or martyr in a cavity called the sigillum beneath the altar - stone ... body . The lid was raised , while each one pressed anxiously to view the bones of the holy man who had died man- fully ...
... body , vesture , bones , or blood , of a saint or martyr in a cavity called the sigillum beneath the altar - stone ... body . The lid was raised , while each one pressed anxiously to view the bones of the holy man who had died man- fully ...
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Page 189 - Every of these attendith to hys own office : x of them hewed the walles abowte, amonge the whych ther were 3 carpentars : thiese made proctes to undersette wher the other cutte away, thother brake and cutte the waules.