Legend has it that it was once possible to see the Sagrada Familia through this window, which was being built simultaneously.

Legend also has it that the young Alfred spent time in Ireland seeking healing.

Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.

Legend has it that in 802 CE, Jayavarman II, king of the Khmers, first came to the Kuhlen hills, the future site of Angkor Wat.

Legend has it that there was a member of the British Royal Family onboard and that in gratitude for their bravery, King George III decreed that Caymanians should never be conscripted for war service and Parliament legislated that they should never be taxed.

Legend has it that Childe was in a party hunting on the moor when they were caught in some changeable weather.

Legend has it that, following Ward's stage performance, he, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille were taking a drunken rooftop tour of Virginia City until a town constable threatened to blast all three of them with a shotgun loaded with rock salt.

Legend has it that α CVn was brighter than usual during the Restoration, as Charles II returned to England to take the throne.

Legend has it that the Brecbennoch, was carried to the Battle of Bannockburn ( 24 June 1314 ) by the vastly outnumbered Scots army and the intercession of Columba helped them to victory.

Legend has it that the team honored Louis Sockalexis when it assumed its current name in 1915.

Legend ( and Verdi's own " An Autobiographical Sketch " of 1879 ) has it that it was the words of the famous Va pensiero chorus of the Hebrew slaves that inspired him to write music again.

Legend has it that it was here in 1558, while sitting under an oak tree in the Park, that she learned that she had become Queen following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I.

Legend has it that if she wishes to make the winter last a good while longer, she will make sure the weather on Imbolc is bright and sunny, so she can gather plenty of firewood.

Legend has it that the idea came to him " like a ray of light ".

Legend has it that at the age of six while in bed with smallpox he was given a watch to amuse himself, spending hours listening to it and studying its moving parts.

Legend has it that the diamond originally belonged to the Pandavas.

Legend has it that he had the Koh-i-Noor positioned near a window so that Shah Jahan could see the Taj only by looking at its reflection in the stone.

Legend in the Lawrence family has it that during the voyage, John Lawrence left the jewel in his waistcoat pocket when it was sent to be laundered, and it was returned promptly by the steward who found it.

Legend has it that Shancai ( also called Sudhana in Sanskrit ) was a disabled boy from India who was very interested in studying the dharma.

Legend has it that carved into the wall above the shelves was an inscription that read: The place of the cure of the soul.

Legend has it that on his arrival in Rome in a chariot, an eagle took his cap, flew away and then returned it back upon his head.

Legend has it that Achilles was born here and Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, died here.

The story has been recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, John Gower's Confessio Amantis ( Book VII ), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes.

Legend has it that these eight schools were founded by eight monks taught by a legendary martial artist resident on the sacred Mount Kurama.

Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor.

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

* " Of Saint Agnes " from the Caxton translation of the Golden Legend

Elissa is the narrator of this tale which was either taken from a fabliau by Jean de Condé written between 1313 and 1337, or from a story about Saint Jerome in The Golden Legend, written about 1260.

Legend has it that Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow, later Patron Saint of Samara, visited the site of the city in 1357 and predicted that a great town would be erected there, and that the town would never be ravaged.

Medieval writers and works ( such as the Golden Legend, which erroneously has Nero as a witness to his suicide ) believed Seneca had been converted to the Christian faith by Saint Paul, and early humanists regarded his fatal bath as a kind of disguised baptism.

The vision of Saint Catherine of Alexandria usually shows the Infant Christ, held by the Virgin, placing a ring ( one of her attributes ) on her finger, following some literary accounts, although in the version in the Golden Legend he appears to be adult, and the marriage takes place among a great crowd of angels and " all the celestial court ", and these may also be shown.

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* Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy ( 1972 ), " Mary, Queen of Heaven "

The Legend of Saint Gerard discloses that followers of Bulgarian Bogomilism were present during the early 11th century in Ahtum's realm, which comprised present day Banat.

Legend has it that Saint Patrick's was the origin of the expression " chancing your arm " ( meaning to take a risk ), when Gerald Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, cut a hole in a door there, still to be seen, and thrust his arm through it, in an effort to call a truce in the Butler – FitzGerald dispute with another Earl, James of Ormond, in 1492.

In the Andy Seto graphic novel series " Saint Legend ", the Eight Immortals reappear to protect the Buddhist faith from evil spirits set on destroying it.

* Scenes from the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, tempera on wood, 21 x 39 cm, Musée Ingres.

* " The Life of Saint Christopher ", The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints, Temple Classics, 1931 ( Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Translated by William Caxton ) at the Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook

The story of Saint George and the European dragon | dragon is one of many stories of the saint s preserved in the Golden Legend.

The Golden Legend transmits the episode of a great plague that afflicted the Lombards in the time of King Gumburt, which was stopped by the erection of an altar in honor of Sebastian in the Church of Saint Peter in the Province of Pavia.

According to the Golden Legend, the narrative episode of Saint George and the Dragon took place in a place he called " Silene ", in Libya ; the Golden Legend is the first to place this legend in Libya as a sufficiently exotic locale, where a dragon might be imagined.

According to tradition, Dumachus was one of a band of robbers who attacked Saint Joseph and the Holy Family on their Flight into Egypt as recorded in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Golden Legend.

* The Golden Legend ( Saint Erasmus ) – e-text adapted from Wynken de Worde's edition of 1527.

Darrow's other TV appearances include: Emergency Ward 10, The Saint, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Within These Walls, as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1975 BBC series The Legend of Robin Hood, as Mr. Tallboy in the 1973 TV adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers ' Murder Must Advertise, as Thomas Doughty in the TV film Drake's Venture, Dombey and Son, Maelstrom, Making News, Pie in the Sky,

The spread of the story of the fourth century discovery of the True Cross was partly due to its inclusion in 1260 in Jacopo de Voragine's very popular book The Golden Legend, which also included other tales such as Saint George and the Dragon.

* The Golden Legend: The Life of Saint Eustace

" One of the sources for Grim is Machiavelli's novel Belfagor arcidiavolo ; the play's treatment of Saint Dunstan draws upon the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.

Later in the 6th century, the Bishop Saint Gregory of Tours wrote his Chronicles about the Merovingian rulers, were appeared a Legend of the King Clovis I who prayed to Christ in one of his campaigns so he could find a place to cross the river Vienne.