The Formation of Christendom

Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1896

CHAPTER I	1

Antony the first patriarch of monks precedes Pachomius by forty	7

Augustine and his monks pass through France and reach Ethelbert	13

The promise of Christ ensures the happening of miracles	14

They pretend to foretell but are incapable of foreseeing the future	19

His own countenance attracted to him those who approached	24

He gives his two sheepskins to the Bishops Athanasius and Serapion	50

33333	52

7783	207

The archbishop the link connecting his province with the Pope	208

Death of King Edwin	213

And the Catholic Church of the seventh century with the Catholic	215

The congress held at the monastery of Whitby	220

CHAPTER VII	254

Bedes narrative of St Hilda	258

His character and manners attract all to	270

He introduces monastic life in Pontus and Cappadocia	67

His house at Marmoutier the nursery of monks who become bishops	88

165	96

Great deterioration of the empire and tyranny of Valens over Catholics	102

The misery of Europe complete at the birth of Benedict	119

The abbots teaching should be twofold by word and by example	126

Bossuets words on the Rule	132

By A D 550 the Franks had spread through the whole land	135

Clovis treats the subjection of Aquitaine and Burgundy as a holy	141

The Christian unity in the midst of universal instability	151

Columbans work at Luxeuil foundation of Dissentis and of St Gall	163

The lives of Christ and of Odin encounter each other before Ethel	170

CHAPTER V	174

The conversion of Kadoc who founds the Abbey of Llancarvan	187

St Gregorys letter to Mellitus prescribing treatment of heathen	201

10	205

Her body sixteen years after burial disinterred and found incorrupt	278

He dies after sixteen years in 690	285

152	286

ST BONIFACE APOSTLE OF GERMANY	294

The position of Boniface on the accession of Pope Zacharias A D 741	320

Death of Pope Gregory II	324

The Fathers of the Desert lose their progeny in the East and regain	334

The deposition of a second Pope inaugurates exarchal viceroyalty	337

The hierarchies of England and of Germany sprung from the Roman	341

The triple impulse given by St Gregory to this movement	348

St Ouen founding a monastery on his inherited estate	360

The Holy See as protecting and presiding over monastic life	366

85	377

The third journey to Rome of St Boniface A D 739	379

of the whole region	381

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Título	The Formation of Christendom The Formation of Christendom, Thomas William Allies
Autor	Thomas William Allies
Editor	Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1896
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Harvard
Digitalizado	30 Oct. 2008

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