. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . Seine to Arcy and Troyes for to go fetch by shipsome victuals. She stilled by her prayers a furious tempestand brought the ships back laden with wheat. When thecity was at length captured. King Childeric, although apaynim, saved at her intercession the lives of hisprisoners, and one day, to escape her importunate pleadingsfor the lives of some criminals, fled out of the gates of Parisand shut them behind him. The saint lived to build a church over the tomb ofSt. Denis and to see Clovis become a Christian. She
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . Seine to Arcy and Troyes for to go fetch by shipsome victuals. She stilled by her prayers a furious tempestand brought the ships back laden with wheat. When thecity was at length captured. King Childeric, although apaynim, saved at her intercession the lives of hisprisoners, and one day, to escape her importunate pleadingsfor the lives of some criminals, fled out of the gates of Parisand shut them behind him. The saint lived to build a church over the tomb ofSt. Denis and to see Clovis become a Christian. Shedied in 509, and was buried on the hill of Lutetius, whichever since has borne her name. Her hope, says the Golden Legend^ from which wehave chiefly drawn her story, was nothing in worldlythings, but in heavenly, for she believed in the holy scripturesthat saith : Whoso giveth to the poor liveth for reward which they receive that give to poor people,the Holy Ghost had showed to her long tofore, andtherefore she ceased not to weep, to adore and to do ■~^ // y .« .^. TOWER OF CLOVIS, CONVERSION OF CLOVIS 17 works of pity, for she knew well that she was noneother in this world but a pilgrim passing. The faithful built a little wooden oratory over hertomb, which Clovis and his wife Clotilde replaced by agreat basilica and monastery which became their burial-place. All that now recalls the church, whose length theking measured by the distance he could hurl his axe, is theso-called Tower of Clovis, a thirteenth-century structurein the Rue Clovis. The golden shrine of the saint, whichreached thirty feet above the high altar, was confiscatedby the Revolutionists to pay their armies, and whatremains of her relics is now treasured in the neighbouringchurch of St. Etienne du Mont. The conversion of Clovis is the capital fact of earlyFrench history. His queen Clotilde, niece of theBurgundian king, had long ^ importuned him to declarehimself a Christian. He had consented to
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