COMING OF THE SAINTS

IMAGINATIONS AND STUDIES IN EARLY
CHURCH HISTORY AND TRADITION

BY

JOHN W. TAYLOR

"Heresy to the heretic and religion to the
orthodox, but the bloom of the rose-petal
belongs to the heart of the perfume-seller."
ABUL FAZL

WITH TWENTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS

₹

METHUEN & CO.

36 ESSEX STREET W.C.

LONDON

ANTIOCH, ROME, SICILY, SPAIN, GAUL, AFRICA, AND THE

MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS

A.D. 84. "SPEECH OF GALGACUS, THE NORTH-BRITISH OR

CALEDONIAN LEADER, BEFORE THE BATTLE WITH AGRICOLA,

AS REPORTED BY TACITUS IN HIS LIFE OF AGRICOLA

272

APPENDIX B

ST. CLEMENT, (1) A.D. 97. FROM THE FIRST EPISTLE OF

ST. CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS. (CHAP. V.); (2) A.D. 90.

FROM THE RECOGNITIONS OF CLEMENT

APPENDIX C.

"

EXTRACTS FROM LETTER WRITTEN A.D. 177. PRESERVED

BY EUSEBIUS ("ECCLES. HISTORY," BOOK V. CHAPS. I., II.,

III., AND IV.)

APPENDIX D

PAGE

275

279

295

A.D. 177-197. THE EARLY GALLICAN COUNCILS AND CHURCH

HISTORY

APPENDIX E .

298

TERTULLIAN, A.D., 199. ON THE SPREAD AND INCREASE OF
EARLY CHRISTIANITY

A.D. 417. LETTER OF POPE ZOSIMUS REGARDING ST. TROPHIMUS

FROM THE HIGH HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAIL, PROBABLY

COMPILED ABOUT 1220, PROFESSEDLY FROM AN OLDER MS.

OF THE "CLERK JOSEPHUS"