The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester / A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops

by R. J. King

[21] F. S. Waller.

[22] Gent. Mag., Sept. 1860.

[23] F. S. Waller.

[24] Other traditions connect Lucius with Kent, and make Chilham Castle, near Canterbury, his principal stronghold. Besides Gloucester, he is the traditional founder of Canterbury and Winchester Cathedrals, and of many churches. Another legend asserts that he resigned his crown, and after preaching Christianity throughout France and Germany, became Bishop of Coire in the Grisons, where he died, and where his relics are still shewn.

[25] Hist. Eccl., lib. i. cap. 4.

[26] See the whole discussion in Collier’s Church History, Pt. II. bk. iv.

[27] Fuller’s Worthies—Herefordshire.

[28] Worthies—Denbighshire.

[29] Church Hist., bk. xi.

[30] William of Malmesbury. No work of this early period now remains at Aix.