![]() They all wore pilgrim-grey mantles, but underneath, at least one of them still wore the mail shirt he had lived in for forty years. The lamplight reflected off three bald heads and glistened on that of Gaucher of Macon, whose hair had gone from blond to white at the siege of Antioch, it was said, but was still thick and full, with a streak of gold down the left side. Throughout the bone-chilling night, the four men knelt motionless before the altar of Mary Magdalene. ![]() John of Salisbury Historia Pontificalis Book I, Prologue In this which I intend to tell, with the aid of God, I will write nothing except that which I have seen and heard and know to be the truth, or that which was written by men of good character and supported by authority. In hiis autem que dicturus sum nichil auctore Deo scribam, nisi quod visu et auditu verum esse cognovero, vel quod probabilium virorum scriptis fuerit et auctoritate subnixum. Vézelay, the shrine of Saint Marie Madeleine, MaThe Feast of Saint Gregory the Great, pope. ![]()
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