Cathedrals and Cloisters of Midland France, Volume 1G. P. Putnam's sons, 1907 |
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Alps Altar ancient apse Aquitaine arches architecture atmosphere Autun Auvergnat Auvergne beautiful became Belley Besançon Bishop building built Burgundian Burgundy Canons castle Cathedral Cathedral's central nave Chambéry chapels charm choir Christ Christian church churchly clerestory Clermont Cloister columns dark Dauphiné dignity dral Duke ecclesiastical edifice Embrun episcopal exterior façade French Gapençais Gothic grace Grenoble hills Histoire holy interesting interior King land lofty lords Louis Louis XI magnificent Maillezais Maurienne medieval Middle Ages Midland France modern monks Monsieur monument mountains Moûtiers Moyen Âge nave neighbouring nobles Notre-Dame Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ornamentation Paul-trois-Châteaux picturesque pillars Pope porch portal prelate province religious Rhone Roman Romanesque ruins Saint Saint-Apollinaire Saint-Claude Saint-Flour SAINT-JEAN-DE-MAURIENNE Saint-Paul-trois-Châteaux Savoy side aisles slender South spire stone strange streets style Symphorien Templars Temple to-day tower town transepts traveller triforium Valence vast vaulting Vienne XV century XVIII century Yolande de France
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Page 383 - When he painted the sufferings of the natives and pilgrims of Palestine, every heart was melted to compassion ; every breast glowed with indignation when he challenged the warriors of the age to defend their brethren, and rescue their Saviour...
Page 383 - ... in a coarse garment ; he bore and displayed a weighty crucifix ; and the ass on which he rode was sanctified in the public eye by the service of the man of God. He preached to innumerable crowds in...
Page 386 - From the confines of Jerusalem and from the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth and very frequently has been brought...
Page 230 - Royal House to the south of the Temple of the Lord, vulgarly called the Temple of Solomon.
Page 386 - Oh, race of Franks, race from across the mountains, race chosen and beloved by God — as shines forth in very many of your works — set apart from all nations by the situation of your country, as well as by your catholic faith and the honor of the holy church!
Page 229 - Christ." They renounced the world and its pleasures, and in the Holy Church of the Resurrection, in the presence of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, they embraced vows of perpetual chastity, obedience, and poverty, after the manner of monks.
Page 238 - Templars was their extraordinary wealth, as Naboth's vineyard was the chiefest ground of his blasphemy, and as in England Sir John Cornwall, Lord Fanhope, said merrily, not he, but his stately house at Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, was guilty of high treason, so certainly their wealth was the principal cause of their overthrow.
Page 229 - ... and in protecting the pilgrims through the passes and defiles of the mountains to the Holy City. Warmed with the religious and military fervor of the day, and animated by the sacredness of the cause to which they had devoted their swords, they called themselves the " Poor Fellow-soldiers of Jesus Christ.
Page 17 - ... foreign duke and with each other sprang less from political motives than from a love of strife for its own sake ; and their love of strife was only one phase of the passion for adventure and excitement which ran through every fibre of their nature and coloured every aspect of their social life. The men of the south lived in a world where the most delicate poetry and the fiercest savagery, the wildest moral and political disorder, and the most refined intellectual culture, mingled together in...
Page 230 - At first, we are told, they had no church and no particular place of abode, but in the year of our Lord 1118 — nineteen years after the conquest of Jerusalem by the crusaders — they had rendered such good and acceptable service to the Christians that Baldwin...