Sketch of the Reformation in England

by John J. Blunt

[32] Bede, 271.

[33] Bede, 453.

[34] Bede, 271.

[35] Bede, 322.

[36] Bede, 395, 438.

[37] The very name, purgatory, is heathen. The annual feast of purification in February was called “Sacrum Purgatorium.” Vide Augustin. de Civ. Dei, l. vii. c. 7.; also Jewel’s Def. of the Apology, part ii. c. 16. § 1.

[38] Bede, 122.

[39] Bede, 431.

[40] Bede, 330.

[41] Bede, 94.