The Hermits by Charles Kingsley
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Footnotes: {12} About A.D. 368. See the details in Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. xxviii. {15} In the Celtic Irish Church, there seems to have been no other pattern. The hermits who became abbots, with their monks, were the only teachers of the people--one had almost said, the only Christians. Whence, as early as the sixth century, if not the fifth, they, and their disciples of Iona and Scotland, derived their peculiar tonsure, their use of bells, their Eastern mode of keeping the Paschal feast, and other peculiarities, seemingly without the intervention of Rome, is a mystery still unsolved. {17a} A book which, from its bearing on present problems, well deserves translation. {17b} "Vitae Patrum." Published at Antwerp, 1628. {23} He is addressing our Lord. {24} "Agentes in rebus." On the Emperor's staff? {27} St. Augustine says, that Potitianus's adventure at Treves happened "I know not when." His own conversation with Potitianus must have happened about A.D. 385, for he was baptized April 25, A.D. 387. He does not mention the name of Potitianus's emperor: but as Gratian was Augustus from A.D. 367 to A.D. 375, and actual |
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