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PAGEANT PICTURE POSTCARDS
Title: The Legend of St Frideswide 727
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons' "OILETTE"
Postcard 9516. "Oxford Pageant" Ser. I.
Direct from the original picture by M. Bowley.
Published under the authority of the Pageant Committee.
Printed colour postcard with POST CARD divided back in brown
Code: PC-PAGEANT-0001 ~ Grade: C+ ~ Price:
£1.50
Card measures 139mm x 88mm
Printed text on reverse reads:
The Legend of St. Frideswide. Frideswide was sought in marriage by
Algar, Earl of Leicester, who attempted to carry her off by force, but
she, despairing of mortal help, appealed to heaven for assistance, and
Algar was smitten with blindness. Repentant, his eyesight was restored on
his making a solemn vow to build a convent for the maiden. Her bones still
rest in the Cathedral where the convent once stood and round which the
city of Oxford grew up.
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