. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. A DAUGHTER OF THE SOIL {page 76). CASTEiL {page 77) To face page 78 ST. MARTIN DU CANIGOU 79 pleasure on entering the damp village church to see itglowing in the sun, its colours perfect, and the name ofthe great lady who made it as bright and legible as on theday she put her needle through it for the last time. Perhapsyou can picture her folding it up with a little sigh of pleasureas the pious work was done. Beside it there is a crimson silk canopy, of the year 1641,bearing the arms of Catalonia and a f
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. A DAUGHTER OF THE SOIL {page 76). CASTEiL {page 77) To face page 78 ST. MARTIN DU CANIGOU 79 pleasure on entering the damp village church to see itglowing in the sun, its colours perfect, and the name ofthe great lady who made it as bright and legible as on theday she put her needle through it for the last time. Perhapsyou can picture her folding it up with a little sigh of pleasureas the pious work was done. Beside it there is a crimson silk canopy, of the year 1641,bearing the arms of Catalonia and a figure of St. John theBaptist; and in the farmhouse there is kept an old silverostcnsoir, with a crystal receptacle for the sacred Host. CHAPTER III ST. MARTIN DU CANIGOU; THE LIFE-HISTORY OF ACATALAN ABBEY The beginnings of the Abbeyof St. Martin of the Canigoudate back to the earliest yearsof the eleventh century; and,in spite of vicissitude and dis-aster and the lapse of so greata space of time, there survivesto this day a marvellous recordof its origin and the fate thatbefell it during the interveningcenturies. Amon
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