. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. lessonby ruling wisely. sr. cune- Henry, on assuming the imperial dignity, married theMarcit3, beautiful and pious princess Cunegunda, daughter of Sieg-fried, Count of Luxembourg, who shares her husbands celestial,as she shared his earthly crown. She is Saint Cunegunda,adored by her people while living, and the subject of in-numerable legends and ballads since her death. After a unionof several years, during which they lived together in love andharmony, but by mutual consent in the strictest continence,the holy Empress was sus
. Legends of the monastic orders : as represented in the fine arts. lessonby ruling wisely. sr. cune- Henry, on assuming the imperial dignity, married theMarcit3, beautiful and pious princess Cunegunda, daughter of Sieg-fried, Count of Luxembourg, who shares her husbands celestial,as she shared his earthly crown. She is Saint Cunegunda,adored by her people while living, and the subject of in-numerable legends and ballads since her death. After a unionof several years, during which they lived together in love andharmony, but by mutual consent in the strictest continence,the holy Empress was suspected of infidelity to her husband;and Henry, though perfectly convinced of his wifes immacu-late purity, was somewhat affected by the malicious reportsconcerning her. Cunegunda herself would willingly have sub-mitted to these accusations as a trial sent from Heaven to testher patience and humility; but considering that Providencehad placed her in a position of life wherein an evil examplewould cause much mischief and scandal, she appealed to the ST. 37 St. Cunegunda, walking over the red-hot ploughshares. trial by ordeal, and, having walked unnurt over the burningploughshares, she was acquitted. This story of the EmpressCunegunda is as popular in German Poetry and German Art,as the story of our Queen Emma, the mother of the Confessor,was formerly in England. Henry endeavoured to make hiswife amends for the indignities to which she had been exposed,by treating her with more respect and tenderness than ever,but she obtained his permission to retire from the world, andwithdrew to the cloister. Henry died in 1024, and was in-terred in his cathedral of Bamberg. Cunegunda, on his death,assumed the Benedictine habit, and not only set an example 182 LEGENDS OF THE MONASTIC ORDERS. 2 8. of piety and charity, but of industry, working continuallywith her hands when not engaged in prayer; for this mostholy Empress had often on her lips the words of St. Paul, thatth
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