"Monastical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a woman who had claimed sanctuary, was miraculously killed by an imaginary spear which came out of the shrine when he was about to seize the woman who was clinging to its side. Bishop Herfastus, too, was struck blind, when on a visit to the abbot, in the attempt to establish his new see in the monastical demesne, and afterward miraculously healed. For centuries the highest in the land brought gifts and laid them before ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume I. - Great Britain and Ireland • Various |
