Christ Legends

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THE HOLY NIGHT

THE EMPEROR’S VISION

THE WISE MEN’S WELL

BETHLEHEM’S CHILDREN

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT

IN NAZARETH

IN THE TEMPLE

SAINT VERONICA’S KERCHIEF

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ROBIN REDBREAST

OUR LORD AND SAINT PETER

THE SACRED FLAME

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It happened at the time when Augustus was Emperor in Rome and Herod was King in Jerusalem.

It was then that a very great and holy night sank down over the earth. It was the darkest night that any one had ever seen. One could have believed that the whole earth had fallen into a cellar-vault. It was impossible to distinguish water from land, and one could not find one’s way on the most familiar road. And it couldn’t be otherwise, for not a ray of light came from heaven. All the stars stayed at home in their own houses, and the fair moon held her face averted.

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“Are the departed worse than the living?” asked the third. “Does gratitude die with those who live in Paradise?”

But as he heard this, the Drought sprang up with a wild cry. He had recognized the strangers! He understood who the strangers were, and fled from them like a madman, that he might not witness how The Three Wise Men called their servants and led their camels, laden with water-sacks, to the Well and filled the poor dying Well with water, which they had brought with them from Paradise.

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