Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2

ITALIAN YESTERDAYS
MRS. HUGH FRASER
Author of “A Diplomatist’s Wife in Japan,” “A Diplomatist’s Wife in Many Lands,” “Reminiscences of a Diplomatist’s Wife,” etc.
VOL. II
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1913
Copyright, 1913, by
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
Published November, 1913
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Saints of the Church 1
A Friend in Rome—A Story of Two Ways of Loving—Aglaë and Boniface—Become Christians—A New Life—Boniface Endures Terrible Tortures—Martyrdom—Death of Aglaë—Church of St. Boniface—Alexis, the Pilgrim—His Travels—Return to Rome—A Ragged Beggar—His Death and Burial in St. Boniface’s Church—St. Alexis’ Monastery—Trials of the Church After Constantine—Rome’s Lowest Ebb—Growth of the Spiritual City—Benedict the Blessed, and Scholastica.
Founder of Monasticism 15