Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Cella

[heavenliness ]. Mother of Faith, Hope, and Charity. She lived in the hospice called Holiness. (Spenser Faërie Queene, bk. i. 10.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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