The Lives of the Saints, Volume 2J. Hodges, 1877 - Christian saints |
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Page 383 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Page 379 - Blessed is the man, whom thou choosest, and receivest unto thee : he shall dwell in thy court, and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
Page 619 - I kept telling them to go on teaching in their turn whatever they had learnt to their parents, family, and neighbours. Every Sunday I collected them all, men and women, boys and girls, in the church. They came with great readiness and with a great desire for instruction. Then, in the hearing of all, I began by calling on the name of the most holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and I recited aloud the Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary, and the Creed in the language of the country : they all followed...
Page 494 - And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you : for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.
Page 383 - And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them : therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
Page 462 - This year the army again went to York, and sat there one year. A. 870. This year the army rode across Mercia into EastAnglia, and took up their winter quarters at Thetford : and the same winter king Edmund fought against them, and the Danes got the victory, and slew the king, and subdued all the land, and destroyed all the minsters which they came to. The names of their chiefs who slew the king were Hingwar and Hubba.
Page 380 - ... the Roman empire torn asunder and in dissolution. Attila had already arrived before Orleans, and was laying siege to it. The bishop, St. Anianus, sustained awhile the courage of the besieged by promising them aid from Aetius and his allies. The aid was slow to come ; and the bishop sent to Aetius a message : " If thou be not here this very day, my son, it will be too late.
Page 492 - It could count several hundred of them in the three monasteries which he had built in succession, and which he himself governed. The noble Franks and Burgundians, overawed by the sight of these great creations of work and prayer, brought their sons to him, lavished gifts upon him, and often came to ask him to cut their long hair, the sign of nobility and freedom, and admit them into the ranks of his array. Labor and prayer attained here to such proportions that the founder could organize that perpetual...
Page 490 - The adventurous temper of his race, the passion for pilgrimage and preaching,2 drew him beyond the seas. He heard incessantly the voice which had spoken to Abraham echoing in his ears, " Go out of thine own country, and from thy father's house, into the land which I shall show thee.
Page 597 - LORD'S limbs: I have ardently loved thee ; long have I desired and sought thee ; now thou art found by me, and art made ready for my longing soul. Receive me into thy arms, take me from among men, and present me to my Master ; that He who redeemed me on thee may receive me by thee.