St. Bathilde of Chelles.
France: 1450-1500.
Exceptional print of the Merovingian saint-queen Bathilde's vision of her ascent to heaven. Bathilde, an Anglo-Saxon aristocrat sold into slavery in Gaul in the second half of the seventh century, later founded the Abbey of Chelles, near Paris, where her remains were enshrined following her death in 680.....