East, monasticism in the, see Monasticism and Monks. 
Echard, a Dominican, 242. 
Eckenstein, Lina, on Morton’s letter, 339. 
Edersheim, on the Essenes, 24. 
Edgar, King, aids Dunstan in reform, 186. 
Education, The Mendicants and, 248;
  the monks further, in England, 253;
  the effect of monasticism on, 407. 
Edward I. and III., confiscate alien priories, 338. 
Egypt, The hermits of, 33;
  Kingsley and Waddington on same, 34. 
Elijah, and asceticism, 30. 
Elizabeth, Princess, and the Act of Succession, 298. 
Endowments of monasteries, abolished by first Mendicants, 244;
  reason for some, 361. 
England, Church of, separates from Rome, 328;
  causes of, and by whom separation secured, 340, 342.
  See Britain. 
Essenes, asceticism of, 23. 
Ethelwold, aids Dunstan, 186. 
Eudoxia, Empress, banishes Chrysostom, 117. 
Eustochium, see Paula.

F

Fabiola, St., Lecky on her charities, 105;
  her care for sick, 105;
  her death, 105. 
Family-ideal, of monastery, Taunton on, 143.
  See Domestic Life. 
Fanaticism, Christianity hostile to, 94;
  tendency toward, among early Christians, 129. 
Farrar, on the luxury of Rome, 75. 
Fasting, amusing instance of rebellion of monks against, 120;
  Athanasius on, 121.
  See Self-denial, Ascetic and Asceticism. 
Ferdinand, of Austria, educated by Jesuits, 277. 
Feudalism, monasticism affected by, 373. 
Finnian, the monk, quarrels with Columba, 170. 
Fisher, G.P., on the stigmata of Francis, 223. 
Fisher, execution of, by Henry VIII., 301, 306. 
Filial love, strangulation of, by monks, 397. 
Forsyth, on St. Francis, 225. 
Foxe, on Thomas Cromwell, 310. 
France, New, and the Jesuits, 282. 
Francis, St., his birth and early years, 208;
  his dreams and sickness, 209;
  visits Rome, 210;
  seeking light on his duty, 210, 211;
  sells his father’s merchandise and keeps proceeds, 211;
  renounces his father, 212;
  assumes monkish habit, 213;
  repairs Church of St. Damian, 214;
  Dante on poverty and, 215;
  visits Innocent III., 216;
  visits Mohammedans, 217; a
  lover of birds, 217;
  Longfellow’s poem on a homily of, 218;
  his temptations, 218;
  the stigmata, 219;
  death of, 224;
  his character, 225;
  his rule, 226;
  on prayer and preaching, 249;
  method of, forsaken, 421. 
Franciscans, The, first year of, 215;
  order of, sanctioned, 216, 217;
  three classes of, 226;
  the rule of, 226;
  Sabatier on rule of, 227;
  the title “Friars Minor,” 227;
  number of, 228;
  St. Clara and, 228;
  The Third Order of, 229;
  quarrel over the vow of poverty, 246;
  prosperity of, 246;
  educational work of, 248;
  quarrel with Dominicans, 249;