DIFFICULTIES WITH PAGANS, JEWS, IMAGE WORSHIP, AND CIVIL POWERS.

The Name of Christian, [94]; Early Pagan Riot, [94]; Early Christians and Slavery, [95]; The First Persecution, [96]; How Christians Appeared to Pagans, [97]; Shows of Wild Beasts, [97]; Testing Fidelity of Christians, [98]; Constantine the Great, [99]; Standard of the Cross, [100]; Dream of Constantine, [100]; Constantine Preaching, [101]; Last Illness of Constantine, [102]; First Church Council, [102]; Silencing the Pagans, [103]; How to Refute a Heretic, [103]; Julian the Apostate, [105]; Theological Disputes, [105]; Controversy about the Trinity, [106]; Athanasius, [107]; Sermon on the Trinity, [108]; Against Demolishing Temples, [108]; First Demolishing of Temples, [110]; Image at the Palace, [111]; St. Martin of Tours, [112]; The King of the Goths, [112]; Attila, King of the Huns, [113]; Vandals Sacking Rome, [114]; Justinian, [115]; Mahomet’s Knowledge, [115]; Oak of Geismar, [116]; Pope Defending Rome, [117]; Forged Decretals, [118]; Separation of Greek and Latin Churches, [119]; Jew and Christian, [119]; Julian Inciting the Jews, [120]; Hating the Jews, [121]; Golden Age of Judaism, [121]; The Pope and the Jews. [122]; The Jews of York, [122]; Jews Crucifying English Boy, [124]; The Black Death, [124]; Jews Stealing the Host, [125]; Torquemada’s Zeal, [126]; Jewish Physicians, [127]; Converting a Jew, [128]; Controversy about Image Worship, [129]; The Iconoclasts, [130]; John of Damascus, [131]; Claudius of Turin, [133]; Trying to Convert Image Worshippers, [134]; Empress Irene, [135]; Empress Theodora, [135]; Image Worship in Spain, [136]; Pope Hildebrand, [137]; St. Thomas Aquinas, [137]; The Popes as Temporal Princes, [139]; Rienzi, [139]; Last Hours of the Roman Empire, [140]; Election to Holy Roman Empire, [141].

[CHAPTER VI.]

MARTYRS, HERMITS, ANCHORITES, AND RELICS.

Martyr Valeria, [142]; St. Thecla and Polycarp, [143]; St. Felicitas, [144]; The Martyrs of Lyons, [144]; St. Cecilia, [145]; Perpetua, [146]; St. Ursula, [146]; St. Barbara, [147]; Potamiana, [147]; St. Genes the Actor, [148]; Genesius, [148]; St. Alban, [149]; Didymus and Theodora, [149]; St. Cyprian and Justina, [150]; St. John Chrysostom, [150]; St. James Intercisus, [151]; Martyr for Image Worship, [151]; Huss the Bohemian, [152]; Joan of Arc a Modern Patriotic Martyr, [153]; Joan’s Mission, [153]; Joan taken Captive and Burnt, [159]; Outbreak of Hermit Zeal, [160]; First Monastic Life, [160]; St. Antony, [161]; Hermit Visiting, [161]; Hermit and Grapes, [162]; Hermit’s Courtesies, [162]; Hermits’ Quarrel, [163]; Political Economy of Hermits, [163]; The Wise Sayings of St. Pambo, [164]; A Hermit’s Olive Tree, [164]; Macarius, [165]; St. Martin of Tours, [165]; Dorotheus, the Architect, [166]; St. Pœmen, Prince of Hermits, [167]; St. Moyses, Water-carrier, [167]; Hermit’s New Austerities, [168]; St. Carileff, [169]; First Saxon Hermit, [169]; St. Guthlac, [170]; St. Simeon Stylites, [171]; A Pillar Monk, [171]; St. Herbert of Derwentwater, [171]; St. Ethelwald at Farne, [172]; English Queen Consulting Hermit, [174]; Conscientious Hermit, [174]; St. Bartholomew of Farne, [175]; French King sends for Hermit, [176]; Consecration of Hermits and Recluses, [177]; St. Methodius the Martyr, [177]; Miracles of Saints, [178]; Local and Patron Saints, [179]; St. Geneviève, [179]; Reverence for Relics, [180]; Secrecy in Removing Relics, [181]; Capturing Holy Relics, [181]; Stealing Relics, [182]; Defending his Relics, [183]; Forgery of Relics, [183]; How to Flatter a Relic Worshipper, [184]; Empress Begging for Relics, [185]; If Genuine Relics, [185]; The Crown of Thorns Pawned and Sold, [186]; King of France shows Holy Cross, [187]; Blood of Christ at Westminster, [188]; St. Stephen’s Relics, [188]; St. Dunstan, [189]; John Huss on Relics, [190]; Crucifix During the Plague, [190]; Purchasing the Head of St. Andrew, [191]; Pilgrimage to Walsingham, [191]; Pilgrimage in Switzerland, [192]; Pilgrims to Canterbury, [192].

[CHAPTER VII.]

THE FATHERS.

Origen, [194]; St. Ambrose, [194]; St. Jerome, [197]; St. Jerome’s Reflections, [198]; St. Jerome with Lion and Ass, [198]; Deathbed of St. Jerome, [199]; St. Jerome’s Epistles, [199]; St. Chrysostom’s Eloquence, [200]; St. Chrysostom on Monkery, [201]; St. Augustine Witnessing Miracles, [202]; Vision of St. Augustine, [203]; St. Augustine’s Faith in Dreams, [203]; St. Cyril of Alexandria, [204]; Some Notions of the Fathers, [204].

[CHAPTER VIII.]

THE MONKS AND THEIR WAYS.