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Portrait of a Pope: St Gregory the Great, Apostle of the English

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"He removed the error of filthy heathenism from our parents." “In the tenth year of [the reign of the emperor Maurice], Gregory, a man eminent in learning and in affairs, was elected pontiff of the Apostolic See of Rome; he ruled for thirteen years, six months, and ten days. In the fourteenth year of this …

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The Lives of the Early English Saints: Prelude, and St Alban, proto-martyr of Britain

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"Be it known to you, that I am now a Christian, and bound by Christian duties." ­ Introduction At his trial on 20 November 1587, after hearing that he had been sentenced to death for treason, the Jesuit missionary priest, Edmund Campion, delivered a final oration to the court, in which he declared: “In condemning …

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