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... Rome by Eleutherius at the request of the British chieftain Lucius , about the year A.D. 180. It is plain that glimpses of the truth must have previously reached these islands , however vague and uncertain they might be . It was ...
... Rome by Eleutherius at the request of the British chieftain Lucius , about the year A.D. 180. It is plain that glimpses of the truth must have previously reached these islands , however vague and uncertain they might be . It was ...
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... Rome ripened to the harvest it is impossible to say . Among the Romans themselves it is not probable that the new creed experienced less success than it met with at their hands in other countries ; nay , it is likely enough that they ...
... Rome ripened to the harvest it is impossible to say . Among the Romans themselves it is not probable that the new creed experienced less success than it met with at their hands in other countries ; nay , it is likely enough that they ...
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... Rome . The history of that mission and its success need not be dwelt upon here . A few years after the arrival of Augustine , Gregory addressed to him a letter in which he recommended him to make York a metropolitan see , with twelve ...
... Rome . The history of that mission and its success need not be dwelt upon here . A few years after the arrival of Augustine , Gregory addressed to him a letter in which he recommended him to make York a metropolitan see , with twelve ...
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... Rome to the country of his birth ? What person more likely to be ordered by Hono- rius into the North to evangelize a people that had suffered and bled with his sire ? If these suppositions are correct the suc- cess of Paulinus is a ...
... Rome to the country of his birth ? What person more likely to be ordered by Hono- rius into the North to evangelize a people that had suffered and bled with his sire ? If these suppositions are correct the suc- cess of Paulinus is a ...
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... Rome , was to be the title - deed as it were of his authority . In position and power the two archbishops were to be exactly equal . It was not so . For a century after the departure of Paulinus from the North no bishop of York either ...
... Rome , was to be the title - deed as it were of his authority . In position and power the two archbishops were to be exactly equal . It was not so . For a century after the departure of Paulinus from the North no bishop of York either ...
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