The Legendary History of the Cross

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Various. The Legendary History of the Cross

The Legendary History of the Cross

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PREFACE

The Legendary. History of the Cross

Of the Holy Crosse

Notes on the Woodcuts

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A Series of Sixty-four Woodcuts from a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483

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Heliodorus, who wrote “Theagenes and Charicheia,” is said to have become Bishop of Tricca, in Thessaly. Socrates, in the fifth century, in speaking of clerical celibacy, mentions the severity of the rule imposed on his clergy by this Heliodorus, “under whose name there are love-books extant, called Ethiopica, which he composed in his youth.”

Achilles Tatius, author of the “Loves of Clitophon and Leucippe,” is said also to have become a bishop. So also Eustathius of Thessalonica, author of the “Lives of Hysemene and Hysmenias,” but this is more than doubtful.

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