¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
adorned j> , 1 enamel, Leopold was the 6 th -11 margrave of Austria (1096 * He was buried at Molk; and hough the usual number of miracles t ® r ® said to have been worked at his car 5 ^ Was not until repeated appli- tions had been made to Rome for ^Ptrards of two centuries that he was Vnr * Cun °nized by Pope Innocent in 1485, His body was removed om Molk and placed here 1506. saong the relics shown are the stump . a tree and a veil which, according to he legend, is the veil of Leopold’s wife
, . e Margravine Agnes, which was car- lle d away by the wind one day as she Stood with her husband on the top of tbe Leopoldsberg, meditating on the site of a monaste ry which she was bent vn founding. The veil long defied all search; until, nine years afterwards, l t was discovered by Leopold whilst he hunting, hanging, uninjured by ^vd and weather, on an elder-tree, on how In of the spot where Klosterneuburg stands, which was regarded as 8 thus miraculously pointed out the erection of the monastery
. «i +1^16, Maximilian, Grandmaster the u Teutonic Order and son of Maximilian IL, placed the s brin iCa ^ coronet of Austria on the the t \ E St. Leopold and implored Since^tv to ^ ee P ^ hi Ms holy custody, the * ns the coronet has been kept in by Invent: it was removed to Vienna sae 0(i; . H-, but restored by bis II., 1<90, On the Of C^SOI'j it of of It, one of the towers is a Cc Wer U l!S a ntic dimensions, made of made ont !^ er <»riosit»es are: a cup in the gravel Altar of Verdun., covered with 51 metal plates
