The Monks of the West From St Benedict to St Bernard volume 2
The Monks of the West From St Benedict to St Bernard volume 2
Charles Forbes Montalembert
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I speak freely to our masters, to the pilots of the vessel of the Church, and I say to them, Watch ! and despise not the humble advice of the stranger. We Irish, who inhabit the extremities of the world, are the disciples of St. Peter and St. Paul, and of the other apostles who have written under dictation of the Holy Spirit. We receive nothing more than the apostolic and evangelical doctrine. There has never been either a heretic, a Jew, or a schis- matic among us. The people whom I see here, ...who bear the burden of many heretics, are jealous ; they disturb them- selves like a frightened flock. Pardon me then, if, swimming among these rocks, I have said some words offensive to pious ears. The native liberty of my race has given me that 1 "Quando rex gentilis peregrinum scribere, Longobardus, Scotum hebetem rogat . . . Quis non mirabitur potiusquam calumniabitur. " — Epist. V. Ad Bonif. Pap. , ed. GALLAND. , p. 355. 2 " Mordacius. " 282 ST. COLUMBANUS boldness. With us it is not the person, it is the right which prevails.
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