Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781333981952
Book Description
Excerpt from The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review: October, 1841 From all this it followed that the bishops of the middle ages were not merely deserving curates to conduct a diocese like a parish, with views corresponding to a small locality; but besides being men who had been trained in the needful rudiments, they were often great and magnanimous philosophers, to direct the spirit and manners of a whole nation. From the very circumstances of the mode of their election they could not be the successive disciples of a particular school, to hand down from age to age the jealous prejudices and narrow conceptions of a party. The deposit of faith was all that they transmitted to successors; they were often learned monks, who had come from a distant land devout, innocent pilgrims, possessing the wisdom of the serpent; men who could sympathize with all that was beautiful and wise and holy greatly, and in a philosophical as well as in a theological sense, Catholic, and who often united in themselves every kind of intellectual interest and grandeur. St. Sophias, or Ca docus, of South Wales, the twenty-fourth bishop of Beneventum, had been a monk and an abbott. Thrice had he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and seven times to Rome. At length, on account of his sanctity, this stranger was made Bishop of Beneventum, where be oh tained the crown of martyrdom from the hands of the Arians while celebrating mass in his cathedral. This was during the reign of Arthur in Great Britain, whose deeds are recorded in a manuscript still preserved in the archives of the monastery of St. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
