Three Months in the Forests of France: A Pilgrimage in Search of Vestiges of the Irish Saints in France |
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ABBEY OF LUXEUIL abbot Algéis altar ancient angel Annegrai apse Austrasia beautiful Bede behold bell Beoan Bercharius Besançon Bishop blessed body Book of Lismore Brendan brethren Brunehilde building built Burghcastle century chapel Christ Christian church of St Clothair Clothair II Clovis Clovis II Columban Columban Rule companions Corbican cross Dante death Deicola disciples Eloi Erchenwald feet Fintan Foillan followed Fontaines forest France Furcy Fursa Gaul Gobain heaven heavenly hell hermitage holy honour inscription Ireland Irish saint island king labour Lagny land Laon legend lived Lord Lough Corrib manuscript Margaret Stokes Mauguille Meldan Merovingian Mézerolles Molagga monastery monks patron Péronne Picardy pilgrims prayer reached relics Riquier river road Roman round ruins says seems shore shrine side soul stone Thiérache thou tomb tower town traces trees Ultan vessel village vision Walbert walls waters Whitley Stokes wild wood
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Page 251 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 274 - Senza riposo mai era la tresca Delle misere mani, or quindi or quinci Iscotendo da se 1' arsura fresca. Io cominciai : Maestro, tu che vinci Tutte le cose, fuor che i Dimon duri, Ch' ali' entrar della porta incontro uscitici.
Page 122 - LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions: How he sware unto the Lord, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob; "Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed ; " I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids, "Until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
Page 251 - ... in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ? who is offended, and I burn not?
Page xlvii - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 272 - He was carried thence to a fair plain, where he saw thieves carrying heavy collars of iron, red hot, about their necks, hands, and feet. He saw here a great burning pitchy river, issuing from hell, and an iron bridge over it, which appeared very broad and easy for the virtuous to pass ; but when sinners attempted it, it became narrow as a thread, and they fell over into the river, and afterwards attempted it again, but were not allowed to pass until the/ had been sufficiently boiled to purge them...
Page 98 - An ancient brother of our monastery is still living, who is wont to declare that a very sincere and religious man told him, that he had seen Fursey himself in the province of the East Angles, and heard those visions from his mouth ; adding, that though it was in most sharp winter weather, and a hard frost, and the man was sitting in a thin garment when he related it, yet he sweated as if it had been in the greatest heat of summer, either through excessive fear, or spiritual consolation.
Page 95 - The aim of all Is how to shine: e'en they, whose office is To preach the gospel, let the gospel sleep, And pass their own inventions off instead.
Page 101 - Saxons, he was honourably received by the aforesaid king, and performing his usual employment of preaching the Gospel, by the example of his virtue and the efficacy of his discourse, converted many unbelievers to Christ, and confirmed in his faith and love those that already believed.
Page 101 - This ought highly to be extolled : as men heretofore uncivilized and irreligious, were enabled, by his means, to taste the sweets of literature. The promoter of his studies and the stimulator of his religion was Felix the bishop, a Burgundian by birth, who now lies buried at Ramsey. Sigebert moreover renouncing the world and taking the monastic vow, left the throne to his relation...