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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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