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The Golden Days of the Early English Church From the Arrival of Theodore to the Death of Bede
The Golden Days of the Early English Church From the Arrival of Theodore to the Death of Bede Author:Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Dutton Subjects: Great Britain Religion / Christian Church / History History / Medieval Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christianity / History Religion / History Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black... more » and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE GOLDEN DAYS OF THE EARLY ENGLISH CHURCH CHAPTER I ST. OSWALD AND ST. AIDAN IN NORTHUMBRIA AND ST. BIRIN IN WESSEX In a previous volume I have endeavoured to give a fairly complete account of the famous missionary venture of Pope Gregory the Great under the leadership of St. Augustine and his companions, and have tried to treat it, not merely as a local incident, but as part of the history of the Latin Church. I followed the fortunes of the mission until they became much qualified and seriously paralysed, and until the line of bishops initiated by St. Augustine was exhausted. The story is not a cheerful one, but rather that of a gallant effort which failed, and was perhaps doomed to fail. The seed was planted, the soil was in a measure tilled, but the harvest that was gathered was a scanty one, and it needed a fresh plough and a fresh type of Vol. L -- 1 " husbandmen with a wider experience of the world and larger ideas to secure a worthy crop. The next venture that was made in this behalf was not initiated by missionaries from Rome. It was part of an extraordinary movement, which must always fill the student with wonder. It was inspired by the fervour and the burning zeal of the Irish Celts, and displayed itself in two different ways. In one by the determination of large numbers of those of good birth and of worldly position...« less