The Venerable Bede's Ecclasiatical History of England: Also the Anglo-Saxon chronicleBell & Daldy, 1894 - 515 pages |
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Page xiv
... ordered to teach youth with care , and to draw them to some craft . They were to distribute alms , and urge the people to give them , and to sing the psalms during the distribution , and to exhort the poor to intercede for the donors ...
... ordered to teach youth with care , and to draw them to some craft . They were to distribute alms , and urge the people to give them , and to sing the psalms during the distribution , and to exhort the poor to intercede for the donors ...
Page xx
... ordered us to write with all speed what he had begun ; and this done , we walked till the third hour with the relics of saints , according to the custom of that day . There was one of us with him , who said to him , ' Most dear master ...
... ordered us to write with all speed what he had begun ; and this done , we walked till the third hour with the relics of saints , according to the custom of that day . There was one of us with him , who said to him , ' Most dear master ...
Page 13
... ordered this holy confessor of God to be scourged by the executioners , believing he might by stripes shake that con- stancy of heart , on which he could not prevail by words . He , being most cruelly tortured , bore the same patiently ...
... ordered this holy confessor of God to be scourged by the executioners , believing he might by stripes shake that con- stancy of heart , on which he could not prevail by words . He , being most cruelly tortured , bore the same patiently ...
Page 14
... ordered to execute , or , if possible , instead of him . Whilst he thus from a persecutor was become a companion in the faith , and the other executioners hesitated to take up the sword which was lying on the ground , the reverend con ...
... ordered to execute , or , if possible , instead of him . Whilst he thus from a persecutor was become a companion in the faith , and the other executioners hesitated to take up the sword which was lying on the ground , the reverend con ...
Page 15
... ordered the persecution to cease immediately , beginning to honour the death of the saints , by which he before thought they might have been diverted from the Christian faith . The blessed Alban suffered death on the twenty - second day ...
... ordered the persecution to cease immediately , beginning to honour the death of the saints , by which he before thought they might have been diverted from the Christian faith . The blessed Alban suffered death on the twenty - second day ...
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