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Title: Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: D'Anvers, N., d. 1933
Subjects: Saints Saints Christian art and symbolism Painting
Publisher: London : G. Bell & sons
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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op which fell killing one ofthem. In the Oratory at Blague there is a very graphicrendering of this incident, for a soldier touched by the holywater is rolling down a scaling ladder, whilst crowds are lookingon at his death. With St. Exuperis may be ranked St. Maximus of Riez,who is said to have hid himself in a wood when the people ofthat city clamoured for his election, and when he had beenforcibly dragged to the cathedral justified their choice by thewonders he wrought. Amongst other miracles, he was able tosecure with a word the removal, for the building of a church,of huge masses of stone, that had resisted the efforts of thestrongest oxen, for which reason his attribute is a churchheld in the right hand. Better authenticated is the legend of St. Marcellus, Bishop of Paris in the early part of the fifth century, who is sometimes represented interceding for captives, in allusion to his pleading with the barbarian invaders for mercy on his flock, or, as on * See ante, pp. 190, 191.
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Alinari Jthoto) (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence ST. ZENOBIO ENTHRONEDBy Domenico Ghirlandajo To face p. 230 ST. NICASIUS 231 one of the portals of the west front of Notre Dame, draggingalong a dragon with his stole, in memory it is said, of hishaving driven away an evil beast which had taken up itsabode on the tomb of a young girl who had died impenitent,but whose soul had been rescued from purgatory by theprayers of the faithful. There is also probably some foundation of fact in the storyof St. Maurillus of Angers, who is one of the Bishops repre-sented holding a fish, from whose mouth a key is issuing, inallusion to a quaint legend to the effect that, having neglectedto baptize or confirm a boy in his diocese before his death, heflung the keys of his cathedral into a river in a fit of remorse.After this St. Maurillus refused any longer to exercise his rightsor perform his duties as Bishop until one day some fishermenbrought him back the keys, which they had found in the bodyof a fish the

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