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62§ An Account of St. Germ&tu
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A Sketch Of The State Of Christianity In...
safely rely . After telling us that he was the son of _RHedyw _, otherwise Ridrcus , and uncle of Emyr Llydaw , being his mother ' s brother , and one of the most distinguished British taints , to whom many of the Welsh churches are dedicated _, and after whose name the ancient cathedral of the Cornish
Britons was called St . Germain ' s , he adds as follows : — He wa 3 sent over to Britain in-420 , by a council of the G _& Htcan Church , to preach against what was called the Pelagian heresy , but which was in reality the ancient and common doctrine of the British Church , which blended many of the bardie
principles with Christianity , and which , at the period under consideration , was successfully diffused by Morgant or Pelagius . The true object , therefore , of the mission of Gannon , was to bring the British Christians under the _discipline and power of the Catholic Church , then beginning to aspire to that universal dominion which it soon after established over
the western empire * How far Garmon was successful in this mission is not very clear ; but his stay in the island was not very long . In the year 447 , he was sent over asecdnd time by another council of the Church of Gaul , and probably with more extensive powers . He now established many Colleges ,
as those of Llancarvan and _Cacrworgonv , at the head of which he placed his Biost experienced disciples , suchasl ) yfrig , Illtyd _, Bleiddan , or Lupus , and Catwg , who taught agreeably to the tenets of the _Chjiirch of Rome . Bishops were also consecrated by him , the Chapters of whose dioceses formed ecclesiastical courts , which till then were unknown in Britain . _* "
Garmon himself was $ Gallican bishop , of the see of Auxerre , is Bleiddan , or JLupus , his companion , was of that of 1 royes f . ' " Upon the first arrival of these strangers jn this island , a council was assembled at Verulam , or St . Albans , in which
it was managed to have Pelagianism solemnly condemned , ( which shews that they had already a party formed in this country ); after which they proceeded vigorously in the work of converting the inhabitants and confuting the heretics ; and _^ by the report of catholic writers , their labours were attended with no small success . However that was , their stay here _>
as was before suggested ., does not appear to have been long ; most , if not all of them , and Germain among the rest _, returned home again after a while ; nor do we find that they afterward paid this country another visit for many years . Among their chief opponents here , was a person named Agricola _, said to have been a man of no mean _abilities , and a warm friend of
_Veiiigius . Though they are reported to have confuted hum * Owen * * Cambrian B _* oe ; . article Garmon . _f Carte , i _. i 31 .
62§ An Account Of St. Germ&Tu
62 § An Account of St . Germ _& _tu
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/4/
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