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... honour of St. Martin , built whilst the Romans were still in the island , wherein the queen , who , as has been said before , was a Christian , used to pray . In this they first began to meet , to sing , to pray , to say mass , to ...
... honour of St. Martin , built whilst the Romans were still in the island , wherein the queen , who , as has been said before , was a Christian , used to pray . In this they first began to meet , to sing , to pray , to say mass , to ...
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... honours , to the end that they may by this recompense be enabled the more vigorously to apply themselves to the care of their spiritual work . And in regard that the new church of the English is , through the goodness of the Lord , and ...
... honours , to the end that they may by this recompense be enabled the more vigorously to apply themselves to the care of their spiritual work . And in regard that the new church of the English is , through the goodness of the Lord , and ...
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... honour of a metropolitan ; for we design , if we live , by the help of God , to bestow on him also the pall ; and yet we will have him to be subservient to your authority ; but after your decease , he shall so preside over the bishops ...
... honour of a metropolitan ; for we design , if we live , by the help of God , to bestow on him also the pall ; and yet we will have him to be subservient to your authority ; but after your decease , he shall so preside over the bishops ...
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did he show from his love to Saint Peter , in whose honour he was building it , that within a year from the time of laying the foundation , you might have seen the roof on and the solemnity of the mass celebrated therein . When the work ...
did he show from his love to Saint Peter , in whose honour he was building it , that within a year from the time of laying the foundation , you might have seen the roof on and the solemnity of the mass celebrated therein . When the work ...
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... honoured him , should delay his departure , or give him money which he would not have time to repay ; for with him it was an invariable rule , if any one made him a present , to show equal grace by returning it , either at once or ...
... honoured him , should delay his departure , or give him money which he would not have time to repay ; for with him it was an invariable rule , if any one made him a present , to show equal grace by returning it , either at once or ...
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Page 13 - When he, among the rest, induced by the unspotted life of these holy men, and their delightful promises, which, by many miracles, they proved to be most certain, believed and was baptized, greater numbers began daily to flock together to hear the word, and, forsaking their heathen rites, to associate themselves, by believing, to the unity of the church of Christ.
Page 5 - Some, therefore, of the miserable remnant, being taken in the mountains, were murdered in great numbers ; others, constrained by famine, came and yielded themselves to be slaves for ever to their foes, running the risk of being instantly slain, which truly was the greatest favour that could be offered them ; some others passed beyond the seas with loud lamentations instead of the voice of exhortation. " Thou hast given us as sheep to be slaughtered, and among the Gentiles hast thou dispersed us.
Page 22 - The present life of man, O king, seems to me, in comparison of that time which is unknown to us, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the room wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, and a good fire in the midst, whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another...
Page 17 - In the meantime Augustine, with the assistance of King Ethelbert, drew together to a conference the bishops or doctors of the next province of the Britons, at a place which is to this day called Augustine's Ac, that is Augustine's Oak...
Page 69 - We also command : that the man who knows his foe to be home-sitting fight not before he demand justice of him. If he have such power that he can beset his foe, and besiege him within, let him keep him within for VII.
Page 23 - ... whilst the storms of rain and snow prevail abroad ; the sparrow, I say, flying in at one door, and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, into the dark winter from which he had emerged. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain,...
Page 8 - ... there any to bury those who had been thus cruelly slaughtered. Some of the miserable remainder, being taken in the mountains, were butchered in heaps. Others, spent with hunger, came forth and submitted themselves to the enemy for food, being- destined to undergo perpetual servitude, if they were not killed even upon the spot. Some, with sorrowful hearts, fled beyond the seas. Others, continuing in their own country, led a miserable life among the woods, rocks, and mountains, with scarcely enough...
Page 51 - English nation, and rejoice in being united in peace and truth with the whole Catholic Church. The Scots that inhabit Britain, satisfied with their own territories, meditate no hostilities against the nation of the English. The Britons, though they, for the most part, through innate hatred, are adverse to the English nation, and wrongfully, and from wicked custom, oppose the appointed Easter of the whole Catholic Church ; yet, from both the Divine and human power withstanding them, can in no way...
Page 21 - ... thanks to Christ, and endeavoured to persuade the king, that by his prayers to Him he had obtained that the queen should bring forth the child in safety, and without much pain. The king, delighted with his words, promised, that in case God would grant him life and victory over the king by whom the...
Page 10 - AUGUSTINE, thus strengthened by the confirmation of the blessed Father Gregory, returned to the work of the word of God, with the servants of Christ, and arrived in Britain.