Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Period of the Renaissance. P L Jacob
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Author: P L Jacob
Number of Pages: 146 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9781130301663
File size: 28 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...nations of the earth. To this great pope appertains the glory of having converted England by means of the missionaries whom he sent thither. "There is nothing grander in the history of Europe," said Bossuet, "than the entry of St. Augustine into Kent with forty of his companions, who, preceded by the cross and image of the Great King our Lord Jesus Christ, prayed fervently for the conversion of England. St. Gregory, who had sent them forth, edified them by truly apostolic letters, and constrained St. Augustine to tremble with amazement at the numerous miracles which God wrought through him. Bertha, a French princess, brought her husband, King Ethelbert, over to Christianity. The kings of France and Queen Brunehild supported this new mission. The French bishops entered cordially into this good work, and, by order of the pope, they consecrated St. Augustine. The support which St. Gregory gave to the new bishop bore abundant fruit, and the Anglican Church was thus formed." Fig. 207.--St. Michael the Archangel, Minister of God, offering to a Byzantine Emperor the glohe surmounted by the cross, the symbol of the imperinl power.--A leaf of an ivory dyptic or tablet of the Sixth Century, preserved in the British Museum.--From a copy by M. J. Labarte. The second leaf of this dyptic being lost, the Greek inscription, which signifies, '.Receive this object, and learning the cause," is incomplete, and its meaning enigmatical. Boisuefs " Histoire Universello," p. 101, Firniiu Didot edition. Amidst these important engagements, the activity of Gregory found time to superintend the relief of the poor and the education of the young. He built schools and hospitals in Rome, and increased the splendour of the church services by a judicious a...
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