The Christian Remembrancer
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ISBN13: 9780217328265
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Chronicles of Abingdon. 7 of the castle which he built are still to be seen. Cissa had a nephew named Hean, ' very rich, and powerful, and religious;' who had been so impressed with some preaching which he had listened to (probably by S. Wilfrid or some of his missionaries) upon the well-known text of the camel and the needle's eye, that he resolved at once to devote to the monastic life himself and all that he had. He obtained from his uncle, Cissa, the promise of a site for a religious house; and he chose?the chronicler says on account of the abundance of wood?the place already known as Aben's Mount. It is probable that he was also influenced in his choice by the traditionary sanctity of the spot, and by the fact that his own patrimony seems to have lain in the neighbourhood. He received from his uncle a large grant of land?one hundred and seventy-three cassates1?on the banks of the Thames, in order to carry out his purpose. His sister Cilia also embraced a religious life, and obtained, either at the same time from Cissa, or from his successor Ceadwalla (for here the two accounts disagree2), permission to found a nunnery in the same neighbourhood, in a spot called Helenstow, from a chapel said to have been founded there by the Empress Helena, and whose name is still preserved in S. Helen's Church in Abingdon. Hean, however, through some vacillation of purpose, the reason of which does not appear in these records, and which it would be idle now to discuss, was very slow in carrying his good intentions into execution. Cissa was succeeded by Ceadwalla, who confirmed his predecessor's grant with considerable additions, and Ceadwalla again by Ini, and still Hean had not fulfilled the conditions of the original grant. King Ini accordingly revoked it: a proceeding which both the...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217328265 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217328261 |
| Weight | 1.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 In |
| List Price | $30.43 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 434 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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