Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... women who , renouncing the joys of family life , dedicated themselves to Christ's universal family . In these early centuries queens and princesses took vows of chastity and poverty and embraced the conventual life . It was a woman , St ...
... women who , renouncing the joys of family life , dedicated themselves to Christ's universal family . In these early centuries queens and princesses took vows of chastity and poverty and embraced the conventual life . It was a woman , St ...
Page 280
... women , old and young without pity , and slew men , women and children without mercy . ' For the English army of which the French had been 280 SET IN A SILVER SEA.
... women , old and young without pity , and slew men , women and children without mercy . ' For the English army of which the French had been 280 SET IN A SILVER SEA.
Page 387
... women who , the Church told them , had struggled and overcome the infirmities of human nature and were now , like the Master whose example they had followed , blessed spirits enthroned in Heaven yet ready to intercede for struggling ...
... women who , the Church told them , had struggled and overcome the infirmities of human nature and were now , like the Master whose example they had followed , blessed spirits enthroned in Heaven yet ready to intercede for struggling ...
Contents
Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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