Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France . Ed sy ~S;wk<^k. ST. MICHAELS MOUNT, NORMANDY. Once, it is said, in times long before the Christian era—and the tradi-tion is not improbable—the Mount was devoted to the worship of the sun,under his Gallic title of Belenus. Less likely, but more amusing, is thattradition which asserts that the Mount spontaneously reared its majestichead, embosomed in a spacious tract of woods and thickets ; and thehermits stationed on its summit received their daily bread from acharitable priest in t
Stanfield's Coast scenery : a series of picturesque views in the British channel and on the coast of France . Ed sy ~S;wk<^k. ST. MICHAELS MOUNT, NORMANDY. Once, it is said, in times long before the Christian era—and the tradi-tion is not improbable—the Mount was devoted to the worship of the sun,under his Gallic title of Belenus. Less likely, but more amusing, is thattradition which asserts that the Mount spontaneously reared its majestichead, embosomed in a spacious tract of woods and thickets ; and thehermits stationed on its summit received their daily bread from acharitable priest in the neighbouring parish of Beauvoir, an ass voluntarilyconveying the pious relief, until one day he fell a prey to a wolf, who, asa retribution for the crime, was by Providence compelled to labour as thesubstitute of the animal he destroyed. The traditions of later times, and of Catholic Christianity, assert, thatabout the year 709, St. Michael, the chief of the angels and of the hostof heaven, the protector of the Hebrew synagogue of yore, as now of theCatholic church, the conqueror of the old serpen
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