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... Virgin , we find that she descends from heaven to bleed a young man in the arm ; to take the place of a naughty ... Mary . It is idolatrous , for to this woman whom it is palpable from Scripture that Christ treated as OF THE CHURCH OF ROME .
... Virgin , we find that she descends from heaven to bleed a young man in the arm ; to take the place of a naughty ... Mary . It is idolatrous , for to this woman whom it is palpable from Scripture that Christ treated as OF THE CHURCH OF ROME .
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... Virgin Mary . " Bonaventura who was canonized a saint , and who is spoken of by his brother - catholics as the Seraphic Doctor , wrote a book called " The Imitation of the Virgin Mary , " after St. Thomas - a - Kempis ' well- known work ...
... Virgin Mary . " Bonaventura who was canonized a saint , and who is spoken of by his brother - catholics as the Seraphic Doctor , wrote a book called " The Imitation of the Virgin Mary , " after St. Thomas - a - Kempis ' well- known work ...
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... our Lady . " Theophilus Raynaud , a Jesuit of Lyons , in his work entitled Diptycha Mariana thus writes : - " The torrents of Heaven and the fountains of the great deep , I would rather open than close in homage of the Virgin . And if ...
... our Lady . " Theophilus Raynaud , a Jesuit of Lyons , in his work entitled Diptycha Mariana thus writes : - " The torrents of Heaven and the fountains of the great deep , I would rather open than close in homage of the Virgin . And if ...
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... of a daily payment with separate and an equal number of kneelings , if it can be done before her image or altar , are to be paid to the glorious Virgin according to that psalm , ( 144 ) . Every day will I give thanks unto thee and ...
... of a daily payment with separate and an equal number of kneelings , if it can be done before her image or altar , are to be paid to the glorious Virgin according to that psalm , ( 144 ) . Every day will I give thanks unto thee and ...
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... of the mother , and the mother that of the son . Jesus and Mary ! this is what my heart shall say at my last hour if my tongue cannot . I shall hear them on my death - bed , they shall be wafted on my expiring breath , and I with them ...
... of the mother , and the mother that of the son . Jesus and Mary ! this is what my heart shall say at my last hour if my tongue cannot . I shall hear them on my death - bed , they shall be wafted on my expiring breath , and I with them ...
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Page 201 - But if the wife should drink of it first God help the husband then ! The stranger stooped to the Well of St. Keyne And drank of the water again. " You drank of the Well I warrant betimes ?
Page 200 - St. Keyne,' quoth the Cornish-man, 'many a time Drank of this crystal Well, And before the Angel summoned her, She laid on the water a spell. 'If the husband of this gifted Well Shall drink before his wife, A happy man thenceforth is he, For he shall be master for life.
Page 199 - But has heard of the Well of St. Keyne. An oak and an elm-tree stand beside, And behind does an ash-tree grow, And a willow from the bank above Droops to the water below. A traveller came to the Well of St. Keyne...
Page 191 - ... dream of the man you are to have. This we did; and to be sure I did nothing all night but dream of Mr. Blossom. The same night, exactly at twelve o'clock, I sowed hempseed in our back yard, and said to myself," Hempseed I sow, hemp-seed I hoe, and he that is my true love come after me and mow.
Page 200 - And there was not a cloud in the sky. He drank of the water so cool and clear, For thirsty and hot was he, And he sat down upon the bank, Under the willow-tree.
Page 187 - ... being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, "This I give to thee, preserve thou my horses; this to thee, preserve thou my sheep; and so on.
Page 211 - Late late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi the auld moone in hir arme, And I feir, I feir, my deir master, That we will cum to harme.
Page 200 - I'll venture my life She has drunk of the Well of St. Keyne ." "I have left a good woman who never was here...
Page 187 - The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation: on that every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them: each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off...
Page 185 - There is amongst us a people who, when they go out in search of prey, carry their horses on their backs to the place of plunder ; in order to catch their prey, they leap upon their horses, and when it is taken, carry their horses home again upon their shoulders.