Early Britain—Roman Britain eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Early Britain—Roman Britain.

Early Britain—Roman Britain eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Early Britain—Roman Britain.

[Footnote 426:  The cave is on the northern shore of the Thuner-See, near Sundlauenen.  Beatus is said to have introduced sailing into the Oberland by spreading his mantle to the steady breeze which blows down the lake by night and up it during the day.  The name of Justus is preserved in the Justis-thal near Merlingen.]

[Footnote 427:  This name is merely the familiar Welsh Morgan, which signifies sea-born, done into Greek.]

[Footnote 428:  See Orosius, ‘De Arbit.  Lib.,’ and other authorities in Haddan and Stubbs.]

[Footnote 429:  Sidonius, Ep. ix. 3.]

[Footnote 430:  Constantius, the biographer of Germanus, says they were sent by a Council of Gallican Bishops; but Prosper of Aquitaine (who was in Rome at the time) declares they were commissioned by Pope Celestine.  Both statements are probably true.]

[Footnote 431:  The lives of Germanus, Patrick, and Ninias will be found in a trustworthy and well-told form in Miss Arnold-Foster’s ‘Studies in Church Dedication.’]

[Footnote 432:  See p. 185.]

[Footnote 433:  Bede, ‘Eccl.  Hist.’  I. xxvi.]

[Footnote 434:  Many existing churches are more or less built of Roman material.  The tower of St. Albans is a notable example, and that of Stoke-by-Nayland, near Colchester.  At Lyminge, near Folkestone, so much of the church is thus constructed that many antiquaries have believed it to be a veritable Roman edifice.]

[Footnote 435:  See Lanciani, ‘Pagan and Christian Rome,’ p. 115.]

[Footnote 436:  At Frampton, near Dorchester, and Chedworth, near Cirencester, stones bearing the Sacred Monogram have been found amongst the ruins of Roman “villas.”]

[Footnote 437:  The British rite was founded chiefly on the Gallican, and differed from the Roman in the mode of administering baptism, in certain minutiae of the Mass, in making Wednesday as well as Friday a weekly fast, in the shape of the sacerdotal tonsure, in the Kalendar (especially with regard to the calculation of Easter), and in the recitation of the Psalter.  From Canon XVI. of the Council of Cloveshoo (749) it appears that the observance of the Rogation Days constituted another difference.]

[Footnote 438:  The Mission of St. Columba the Irishman to Britain was a direct result of the Mission of St. Patrick the Briton to Ireland.]

[Footnote 439:  Magna Charta opens with the words Ecclesia Anglicana libera sit; and the Barons who won it called themselves “The Army of the Church.”]

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