A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

by Alfred Wesley Wishart

Ambrose, embraces ascetic Christianity, [84]; Theodosius on, [115]; saying of Gibbon applied to, [116]; describes Capraria, [126]; his influence on Milanese women, [126].

Ammonius, the hermit, visits Rome, [72].

Anglicans, claims of, respecting the early British Church, [162].

Anglo-Saxons and British Christianity, [164].

Anglo-Saxon Church, effect of Danish invasion on, [181]; effect of Dunstan's work on, [187]. See [Britain.]

Anslem, of Canterbury, on flight from the world, [369].

Anthony, St., visits Paul of Thebes, [37]; his strange experiences, [38]; buries Paul, [41]; birth and early life of, [43]; his austerities, [44], [45]; miracles of, [46]; his fame and influence, [47]; his death, [48]; Taylor on biography of, [48].

Ap Rice, a Royal Commissioner, [311].

Aquinas, Thomas, a Dominican, [242].

Ascetic, The, his morbid introspection, [392]; meaning of word, [425]. See [Monks] and [Hermits.]