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Barn and the Pyrenees

CHAPTER VII
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These candles are kept constantly burning, and the devotion to the Saint also burns as brightly as ever.

St.Agnes and St.Disciolus repose near their abbess.

Pepin, King of Aquitaine, lies somewhere in their neighbourhood; but the exact spot is not ascertained.
A miraculous foot-print is still shown, which it is recorded that Jesus Christ left _when_ he visited the cell of the holy abbess: the stone, carefully preserved, is called Le Pas de Dieu, and was formerly in the convent of St.Croix.
We had some difficulty to escape from the earnest exhortations of numerous devout sellers of rosaries, who insisted on our buying their medals, _chapelets_, &c., assuring us that they were of extraordinary virtue; and we could scarcely believe that we had not been transported several centuries back, when we saw the extreme devotion and zeal they showed, both towards the Saint, and the money she might bring from devotees.
Close to Ste.

Radegonde is the cathedral church of St.Pierre, principally built by Henry II.

of England, a very fine specimen of the grandest style of art; vast and beautiful, but with its naves rather too low.


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