A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Malmesbury, his charges against the monks, [173].

Manicheism, relation of, to Albigensians, [233].

Marcella, St., Jerome on life of, [102]; her austerities and charity, [103].

Maria dei Angeli, Sta., Francis hears call in church of, [214].

Marriage, Basil on, [66]; how esteemed in Rome, [110]; Gibbon on, in Rome, [110]; Jerome and Augustine on, [112]; vow of celibacy and, [381].

Married life in Rome, Jerome on, [114].

Martensen, on ascetics, [391]; on solitude and society, [395].

Martin, St., of Tours, credibility of biography of, [119]; sketch of his life, [120]; his death, [122]; churches and shrines in honor of, [122].

Martinmas, [122].

Materialism, monasticism and, [350], [413]; of the West, [371].