The Life of St. Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln ; With Some Account of His Predecessors in the See of Lincoln
The book The Life of St. Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln ; With Some Account of His Predecessors in the See of Lincoln was written by author G G George Gresley 1820 1897 Perry Here you can read free online of The Life of St. Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln ; With Some Account of His Predecessors in the See of Lincoln book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Life of St. Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln ; With Some Account of His Predecessors in the See of Lincoln a good or bad book?
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For Hugh had completely imbibed the prevalent opinion of his age, that there was no true religion without complete self-immolation ; that the body must be reduced to the state of the greatest misery compatible with existence before the soul could reach the true heights of perfection.^ Now, in the neighbourhood of the religious house in which Hugh was professed were the head-quarters of the most ascetic order of monks that the Church has ever seen, and towards these, as heroes of the faith, Hugh...'s heart continually yearned with ardent desire and longing. He prevailed upon the prior of his convent to accompany him on a visit to the convent of the Great Chartreuse,^ carefully concealing from him, meanwhile, his wish to become an inmate of that famous abode of ascetic religion. Arrived there, everything impressed him with the profoundest ad- ^ The writer of the Alagna Vita says nothing of the dangers and scandals to which Hugh was exposed in the cell of St. Maximin ; but in the poetical Life of St.
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