Saint stands (asleep) while bird builds nest and hatches brood in his hand

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Saint stands (asleep) while bird builds nest and hatches brood in his hand.

Religion. · Religious orders. · Clerical virtues and vices. · view the constellation · filed as V462.8.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Irish mythCross.

Within the index

Filed under Ascetic immersion.

Filed beside it

Saint confines himself in narrow pen during Lent

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