The Golden Legend: Or, Lives of the Saints, Volume 6J.M. Dent and Company, 1900 - Christian art and symbolism |
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Page 84 - Placidas approaching nigh thought in his mind how he might take him, and as he beheld and considered the hart diligently, he saw between his horns the form of the Holy Cross shining more clear than the sun, and the image of Christ, which by the mouth of the hart, like as sometime Balaam by the ass...
Page 37 - Confessor] with his cross in his hand, and he said to S. Edward, as he had then been alive: 'O thou holy and blessed king, thou knowest well that I took this charge on me against my will, but by constraint of the pope and thee I obeyed to take it, and it now so is that we have a new king, new laws, and giveth new sentences, in reproving thee of thine error for so much as thou gavest it to me, simple and unconning man, and me, for the presumption that I would consent to take it. That time thou mightest...
Page 66 - And then all these virgins came with the bishops to Cologne and found that it was besieged with the Huns. And when the Huns saw them they began to run upon them •with a great cry and a-raged like wolves on sheep and slew all this great multitude. And when they were all beheaded, they came to the blessed Ursula.
Page 85 - And when he was come home to his house and told this thing to his wife in their bed, she cried, " My lord," and said, "And I saw Him this night that is passed and He said to me, 'To-morrow, thou, thy husband and thy sons shall come to me ; ' and now I know that it was Christ.
Page 60 - ... For they had been in their times evil and sinners. And Daria answered, the philosophers called the elements by the names of men. And Crysant said to her, if one worship the earth as a goddess, and another work and labour the earth as a churl or ploughman, to whom giveth the earth most? It is plain that it giveth more to the ploughman than to him that worshippeth it. And in like wise he said of the sea and of the other elements. And then Crysant and Daria converted to him, coupled them together...
Page 27 - ... Edward the Confessor, riding that way, alighted out of devotion to be present at the consecration. During the procession, a fair old man came to the King and begged alms of him in the name of God and St. John the Evangelist. The King having nothing else to give, as his almoner was not at hand, took the ring from his finger and gave it to the poor man. Some years after...
Page 61 - ... commanded them to make a great fire within the entrance of the bordel, so that the lion should be brent with Daria. And the lion considering this thing, felt dread, and roaring took leave of the virgin, and went whither he would without hurting of any body. And when the provost had done to Crysant and Daria many diverse torments, and might not grieve them, at the last they without compassion were put in a deep pit, and earth and stones thrown on them. And so were consecrated martyrs of Christ".
Page 226 - I had liefer that thou shouldest lose thine hair than my son were made emperor. And then anon the maid took habit of religion with S. Elizabeth, and finished her life laudably. When the time approached that God had ordained, that she which had despised the reign mortal should have the reign of angels, she lay sick of the fevers and turned her to the wall, and they that were there heard her put out a sweet melody; and when one of the chamberers had enquired of her what it was, she answered and said...
Page 61 - Claudius, which had been tormentor of them, they converted to the faith of our Lord, with his wife and children, and many other knights. After this, Crisaunt was enclosed in a stinking prison by the commandment of Numerianus, but the stench was anon turned into a right sweet odour and savour. And Daria was brought to the bordel, but a lion that was in the amphitheatre came and) kept the door of the bordel. And then there was sent thither a man to deflower and corrupt the virgin, but anon he was taken...
Page 91 - ... other, and weep. And when their mother had heard all this thing, she considered long in herself, if they were her two sons, because they had said by order what was befallen them. And the next day following she went to the master of the chivalry, and required him, saying, Sir, I pray thee that thou command that I may be brought again to my country ; for I am of the country of the Romans, and here I am a stranger.