Attila and His Conquerors: A Story of the Days of St. Patrick and St. Leo the Great

Attila and His Conquerors: A Story of the Days of St. Patrick and St. Leo the Great

The chief authorities for the history in this story are, the Latin Sermons and Epistles of St. Leo in the Acta Sanctorum, the writings of St. Patrick, Hodgkins Italy and her Invaders, Lhistoire dAttila, by Amade Thierry, Milmans Latin Christianity, Gibbons Decline and Fall, The Life of St. Leo, by Canon Gore, and his article on St. Leo in Smiths Dictionary of Christian Biography, Canon Brights Translations of St. Leos Sermons, and various other authorities on Liturgies and ecclesiastical customs, usually deemed trustworthy. They sat together on a crag close to their home, the young brother and sister, Baithene and Ethne, only son and daughter of a chieftain of the great clan ONeill. Prince and princess they might have been called in legendary story, and their father and mother king and queen. For there were many kings in Ireland in those early centuries, as afterwards many saints. And yet neither of these great titles, though counted by the score, were unmeaning. The saints were men and women vowed and consecrated to a holy life of devotion and service:a true aristocracy in the Church. Homage was rendered them because nobleness was expected of them. And the kings were distinguished as really, in the minds of their people and clan, from all beneath them, as men of another[10] stamp and metal from the rest, with a royal superscription. To serve them was honour; to obey them was imperative necessity and sacred duty; to live for them was life worth living; to die for them was death worth dying. Conan, king or chief of one branch of the ONeills, father of Baithene and Ethne, and his wife, however poor their palace and small their kingdom, were served and honoured with a free, unquestioning loyalty altogether unknown in the servile, mercenary courts of their contemporary sovereigns in the palaces of Constantinople or Ravenna. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 61247
Author: Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
Release Date: Jan 26, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English