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Legends of the Middle Ages

CHAPTER XI
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This they leveled and polished until it shone like a mirror, and upon this foundation they prepared to build their temple.
[Sidenote: Temple of the Holy Grail.] As Titurel was hesitating what plan to adopt for the building, he prayed for guidance, and when he arose on the morrow he found the ground plan all traced out and the building materials ready for use.

The knights labored piously from morning till night, and when they ceased, invisible hands continued to work all night.

Thus pushed onward, the work was soon completed, and the temple rose on the mountain top in all its splendor.

"The temple itself was one hundred fathoms in diameter.

Around it were seventy-two chapels of an octagonal shape.


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