The Venerable Bede's Ecclasiatical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon chronicleBell & Daldy, 1894 - 515 pages |
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Page 11
... commanded the churches to be destroyed , and the Christians to be slain . This persecution was the tenth since the reign of Nero , and was more lasting and bloody than all the others before it ; for it was carried on incessantly for the ...
... commanded the churches to be destroyed , and the Christians to be slain . This persecution was the tenth since the reign of Nero , and was more lasting and bloody than all the others before it ; for it was carried on incessantly for the ...
Page 12
... commanded him to be dragged up to the There are great chronological difficulties in the story of the martyrdom of St. Alban . Whilst the persecution lasted , Britain was first alienated from the Roman empire by Carausius and Allectus ...
... commanded him to be dragged up to the There are great chronological difficulties in the story of the martyrdom of St. Alban . Whilst the persecution lasted , Britain was first alienated from the Roman empire by Carausius and Allectus ...
Page 30
... that one would have thought they had been joined by a mighty army . Thus , by these holy apostolic men , Christ The holy days of Lent himself commanded in their camp 30 [ B. I. C. 20 . BEDE'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY .
... that one would have thought they had been joined by a mighty army . Thus , by these holy apostolic men , Christ The holy days of Lent himself commanded in their camp 30 [ B. I. C. 20 . BEDE'S ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY .
Page 31
... commanded in their camp . were also at hand , and were rendered more religicus by the presence of the priests , insomuch that the people being in- structed by daily sermons , resorted in crowds to be baptized : for most of the army ...
... commanded in their camp . were also at hand , and were rendered more religicus by the presence of the priests , insomuch that the people being in- structed by daily sermons , resorted in crowds to be baptized : for most of the army ...
Page 50
... commanded them to abstain from women . And if so much cleanness of body was there required , where God spoke to the people by the means of a subject creature , that those who were to hear the words of God should not do so ; how much ...
... commanded them to abstain from women . And if so much cleanness of body was there required , where God spoke to the people by the means of a subject creature , that those who were to hear the words of God should not do so ; how much ...
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