[163] History of Christianity, vol. iii. p. 109.
[203] An authentic fact.
[204] If any one doubts this, let him try the game called “Russian scandal,” where a story, passed secretly from mouth to mouth, ends utterly transformed, the original point being lost, a new point substituted, original names and facts omitted, and utterly new ones inserted, &c. &c.; an experiment which is ludicrous, or saddening, according to the temper of the experimenter.
[209] Les Moines d’Occident, vol. ii. pp. 332–467.
[210] M. La Borderie, “Discours sur les Saints Bretons;” a work which I have unfortunately not been able to consult.
[212a] Vitæ Patrum, p. 753.
[212b] Ibid. p. 893.
[212c] Ibid. p. 539.
[212d] Ibid. p. 540.
[212e] Ibid. p. 532.