ATTILA AND HIS CONQUERORS.
ATTILA
AND HIS CONQUERORS.
A STORY OF THE DAYS OF
ST. PATRICK AND ST. LEO THE GREAT.
BY
MRS. RUNDLE CHARLES,
AUTHOR OF
“CHRONICLES OF THE SCHÖNBERG-COTTA FAMILY,” “AGAINST THE STREAM,”
“THREE MARTYRS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,” ETC.
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SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
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HISTORICAL SOURCES.
NOTE.
In this, as in all the historical fictions I have written, all words or deeds attributed to historical persons are, as far as I could ascertain, strictly historical.
The chief authorities for the history in this story are, the Latin Sermons and Epistles of St. Leo in the Acta Sanctorum, the writings of St. Patrick, Hodgkin’s Italy and her Invaders, L’histoire d’Attila, by Amadée Thierry, Milman’s Latin Christianity, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, The Life of St. Leo, by Canon Gore, and his article on St. Leo in Smith’s Dictionary of Christian Biography, Canon Bright’s Translations of St. Leo’s Sermons, and various other authorities on Liturgies and ecclesiastical customs, usually deemed trustworthy.
CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | IN THE WHITE ROBES OF BAPTISM | [9] |
| II. | THE HOUSE ON THE AVENTINE | [20] |
| III. | YOUNG IN AN OLD WORLD | [30] |
| IV. | A LETTER FROM ST. PATRICK TO HIS BROTHERS AND SONS | [38] |
| V. | ONCE MORE THROUGH WRECK TO ROME | [49] |
| VI. | “MOVING ABOUT IN WORLDS NOT REALIZED” | [61] |
| VII. | TOURS AND HER SAINT | [71] |
| VIII. | FROM ROME TO THE BATTLE-FIELD | [79] |
| IX. | ORLEANS—HER SAINT AND HER SIEGE | [92] |
| X. | TROYES—HER SAINT AND HER SALVATION | [108] |
| XI. | A FIELD OF SLAUGHTER, AND A FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH | [123] |
| XII. | ST. PATRICK’S CHILDREN IN ST. LEO’S CITY | [133] |
| XIII. | SUNSET MEETING DAWN | [144] |
| XIV. | ROME AND HER SAINT | [157] |
| XV. | RANSOMS AND CAPTIVITIES | [169] |
| XVI. | BELEAGUERED AQUILEIA | [186] |
| XVII. | A RETREAT WITH ST. LEO THROUGH LENT AND EASTER | [195] |
| XVIII. | THE FALL OF AQUILEIA | [207] |
| XIX. | LEO AND ATTILA—THE RESCUE OF ROME | [213] |
| XX. | AMONG THE HUNS—LEO AND ATTILA | [220] |
| XXI. | ON THE SABINE HILLS | [228] |
| XXII. | A MEETING OF THE WATERS | [236] |
| XXIII. | FULFILMENTS AND DREAMS ON THE SABINE HILLS | [240] |
| XXIV. | THE LAND OF THE MORNING | [251] |
| XXV. | CHAOS AND CREATION IN CHRISTENDOM | [260] |
| XXVI. | “THE HOLD OF EVERY FOUL SPIRIT,” “I SIT A QUEEN” | [268] |
| XXVII. | LEO AND THE VANDALS | [277] |
| XXVIII. | A TREASURE LOST AND A SOUL FOUND | [286] |
| XXIX. | ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS | [294] |
