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" per sanctum vultum de Luca" (compare Vol. X. p. 451 n.), and in an old London church of St. Thomas there was an effigy of the Volto Santo, the cult of which was cared for by the Lucchese colony. See Canon Almerico Guerra's Notizie Storiche del Volto Santo... "
In Tuscany: Tuscan Towns, Tuscan Types and the Tuscan Tongue - Page 154
by Montgomery Carmichael - 1903 - 353 pages
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1915 - 560 pages
...William of Malmesbury records that the Bed King habitually swore ' per Sanctum Vultum de LĂșea, and in an old London church of St. Thomas there was an effigy...by the Lucchese colony. See Canon Almerico Guerra's ' Notizie Storiche del Volto Santo di Lucca ' (Lucca, 1881), and Montgomery Carmichael's ' In Tuscany,'...
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Exiles of Eternity: An Exposition of Dante's Inferno

John Smyth Carroll - 1903 - 588 pages
...own distant island. William Ruf us swore habitually ' by the Holy Face of Lucca,' and it is said that in the old London Church of St. Thomas there was an effigy of it. When this Alderman of Lucca rises from his plunge into the pitch 'doubled up,' the CANTOS demons...
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The Works of John Ruskin: Fors Clavigera, letters

John Ruskin - 1907 - 776 pages
...that the Red King habitually swore "per sanctum vultum de Luca" (compare Vol. X. p. 451 n.), and in an old London church of St. Thomas there was an effigy...by the Lucchese colony. See Canon Almerico Guerra's Notizie Storiche del Volto Santo di Lucca (Lucca, 1881), and Montgomery Cannichael's In Tuscany, 1901,...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 27

John Ruskin - 1907 - 868 pages
...that the Red King habitually swore "per sanctum vultum de Luca" (compare Vol. X. p. 451 n.)t and in an old London church of St. Thomas there was an effigy...by the Lucchese colony. See Canon Almerico Guerra's Notizie Storiette del Volto Santo di Lucca (Lucca, 1881), and Montgomery Carmichael's In Tuscany, 1901,...
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