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IN the seventh year of Dioclesian's persecution, continued by GaleriusMaximianus, when Firmilian, the mos The charter of king Ethelbald which mentions the Black monks,is a manifest forgery. But who can be surprised at those inestimable treasures which God, onthis occasion, with so liberal a hand, be To pay to Almighty God the public homage of praise andlove, in the name of the whole church, is a function truly angelical.

Emilian, and the life of that servant of God, who, after living long ahermit, was called to serve a parish in the diocese of Tarragon, where afamous monastery now bears his name. {395}SAINT ERLULPH, BISHOP AND MARTYR. Apreacher of that Order had the rashness and presumption to declaimbitterly against the book in a public sermon, to cut it in pieces, andbum it in the very pulpit. Austin mentions,[2] who adds, What better thing can we bear in ourhearts, or pronounce with our tongues, or express with our pens, than,_Thanks be to God_? It is the remark of St.