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Page 28
... body to be laid , not in that splendid pile of St. Vassili , which he had spent so much time and money in building near the Holy Gate , but in a chapel of the Archangel's church ; and there the grim old tyrant lies , in a plain stone ...
... body to be laid , not in that splendid pile of St. Vassili , which he had spent so much time and money in building near the Holy Gate , but in a chapel of the Archangel's church ; and there the grim old tyrant lies , in a plain stone ...
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... bodies being washed on shore and buried in the sand , she caused a cloister to be raised on the spot , which she called the Monastery of St. Nicolas , after the patron of drowning men . That cloister of St. Nicolas was the point first ...
... bodies being washed on shore and buried in the sand , she caused a cloister to be raised on the spot , which she called the Monastery of St. Nicolas , after the patron of drowning men . That cloister of St. Nicolas was the point first ...
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... body from the earth , and finding it pure and fresh , he laid the incorruptible relics in the crypt of his infant church . More and more monks arrived in the lonely isles ; and pil- grims from far and near began to cross the sea ; for ...
... body from the earth , and finding it pure and fresh , he laid the incorruptible relics in the crypt of his infant church . More and more monks arrived in the lonely isles ; and pil- grims from far and near began to cross the sea ; for ...
Page 69
... bodies and the souls of men . Dressed in his cowl and frock , on which hangs a splendid sapphire cross , Feofan , a small , slight man - with the ascetic face , the womanlike curls , and vanishing figure , which you note in nearly all ...
... bodies and the souls of men . Dressed in his cowl and frock , on which hangs a splendid sapphire cross , Feofan , a small , slight man - with the ascetic face , the womanlike curls , and vanishing figure , which you note in nearly all ...
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... body of monks , in a lonely islet , locked up from the world for eight months in the twelve by storms of sleet and deserts of ice . These monks make seal - skin caps and belts ; they paint in oil and carve in wood ; they cure and tan ...
... body of monks , in a lonely islet , locked up from the world for eight months in the twelve by storms of sleet and deserts of ice . These monks make seal - skin caps and belts ; they paint in oil and carve in wood ; they cure and tan ...
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