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  • The site played a significant role in several wars but what held the most power for me were the bins and bins of items donated to the church in honor of promises made to the Black Virgin for her intervention.

    10 Days in Barcelona FJK 2008

  • Tout de meme, le digne representant de ma vison de la pureté c'est Iberisse le porteur de la croix des chatiments dans Black Virgin.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Mais bon voila je suis enfin arrivée à la fin de ce BOOK, il ne me reste plus K tapé le descriptif de DADOO et STRANGE LINKS potablement, refaire les perso de Black Virgin qu'on puisse quand meme voir une evolution dans le style de dessin pis la reproduction '' presente '' de l'ancienne couverture de '' Les yeux Fermés '' et voilou j'serais tranquile ....

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2003

  • It spoke in the fulness of gratitude, and in the humbleness of prayer; and although the dialect was tinged with village barbarism, and its thankfulness addressed to the Black Virgin, I heard in its simple solemnity only the beauty of holiness; and, overlooking the visible shrine, beheld in its ultimate object the tribunal of divine mercy!

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 Various

  • But the chapel of the Black Virgin is diminutive as a boudoir, and yet retains the usual character of listening and awful stillness, the ordinary impression of local sanctity.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 Various

  • Crypt, where a faint, mysterious glint of light falls aslant the mystical face of the Black Virgin; as one climbs to the light beneath the ogive arches of the Aumônerie, through the wide-lit aisles of the

    In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

  • Black Virgin; as one climbs to the light beneath the ogive arches of the Aumônerie, through the wide-lit aisles of the Salle des

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885

  • They were wending homewards, happy to have won their pardon; and the sight of them greatly magnified his veneration for the Black Virgin.

    The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909 Anatole France 1884

  • This he took for a warning of God and our Blessed Lady, tarried within doors pondering the matter all the day, and then toward evening went to lay his offering at the feet of the Black Virgin.

    The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909 Anatole France 1884

  • Seminary, and perhaps more especially from the children of the choir, who crowd to kiss the Pillar and kneel before the Black Virgin.

    The Cathedral 1877

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