Arthur Gilman, M. A. "The Story of Rome."
Putnam's "Stories of the Nations Series."
MEDIÆVAL RECORD.
XXXIII.—CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH.
1. Some time before Gregory became Pope, perhaps about the year 574, he went one day through the market at Rome, where, among other things, there were still men, women, and children to be sold as slaves. He saw there some beautiful boys who had just been brought by a slave-merchant, boys with a fair skin and long fair hair, as English boys then would have.