And Marinus the pope then sent 'lignum Domini' (of Christ's cross) to king Alfred. And in the same year Sighelm and ^Ethelstin conveyed to Rome the alms which the king had vowed (to send) thither, and also to India to St Thomas, and to St Bartholomew... The Church Historians of England: pt. 1. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The ... - Page 48 1853 Full view -
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