Early Christian Missions of Ireland Scotland And England
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In spite of our coldness of heart, we will follow to our utmost the canons, the precepts of the Lord and the Apostles. These are our weapons, our 28o EARLY CHRISTIAN MISSIONS OF glory, our shield. It is to' keep faithful to these that we left our country, and came to dwell with you. It rests with you, holy Fathers, to see what you will do with a few poor veterans, a few aged pilgrims, and if it is not better to cheer than to trouble them. I dare not go to you, for fear that I might get into con...tention with you ; but I confess to you the secrets of my conscience, and how I believe, above all, in the tradition of my country, which is moreover that of St. Jerome. ' " IV. But the permanent controversy of St. Columban was with vice and oppression, especially during his later years at Luxeuil : with the weak men and terrible women of the Merovingian royal family. The dowager Queen Brunehault (not the especially wicked Brunehault — this lady, it is said, had herself passed a blameless youth), in order, it seems believed, to retain her own in- fluence over her grandson, King Thierry, " moved (say les Petits Bollandistes) by the thirst of reigning" encouraged him in polygamy, to call it by no worse name.
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