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An Account of St. GermaHu 623
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A Sketch Of The State Of Christianity In...
and silenced the rest of their opposers , their victory appears by no means complete or decisive ; for the reputed heresy was soon found to be very far from being suppressed or eradi _^ _catech In time , its formidable appearance excited so much alarm among the zealous Catholics _abroad _^ that _orthodoxy
and the Church were thought to be in no small danger * It was therefore judged necessary to set on foot another mission to Britain , of which Germain again appeared as a principal * This took p lace , as was before observed _, in 447 * Like his former mission or visit , it appears to hare been but short ; its whole duration , probably , not much above a year ; for we
are told that after his return home from hence , be set out immediately for Italy , and died at Ravenna , July 31 , 448 , _havino * been possessed of the bishopric of Auxerre about 30 years . Other accounts , indeed , place his death in 450 , in which case his stay here might take up two or three years ; and thi _* would seem the most _probable , considering the extent of _the work he is said to have accomplished here before his
departure . St . Germain seems fo have united the characters of politician and warrior with that of a Christian _missionary ; for he appears not only to have encouraged the Britons to military exertions while he was among them , but also , in . one instance , at least , even to have led them himself to battle against the
united forces of the Picts and Saxons , when the Britons obtained a decisive victory at a place since called Maes Garmoa ( or Germain ' s field ) near Mold in Flintshire *" . This , of cour _& e , would effectually recommei _^ 4 him to the favour and esteem of the rulers of the country , and of the nation at large j and we may be pretty well assured that he owed to these
circumstances no small part of his popularity , and of the advantages he gained over the Pelagians . The latter seem to have been a passive and unwarlike sect , somewhat resem ** bling our modern quakers ; so that it can be no great wonder the higher powers should dislike them and favour their opponents , especially as the latter were aiming at form in a a
hierarchy , in alliance with the state and subservient to its views . The prevailing opinion of the superior sanctity of St . Germain and of his possessing the power of working miracles , is a proof of the great popularity he had acquired _^ and how dexterously he must have acted his part in promoting the cause committed to his management , as well as how sagely his countrymen had judged in placing him at the head of the
mission . * This has been called ct the _AlUlnjah Victory , " from the use -which the _Brltont _, by the direction of Germain , arc said to have made of that word on that mcinoV-* blc _day «
An Account Of St. Germahu 623
An Account of St . _GermaHu 623
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/5/
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