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A hamlet of Stowe, Northamptonshire. The tradition is that the people of this hamlet wished to build a church, and made nine ineffectual efforts to do so, for every time the church was…
Lactantius, Hilary, Ambrose of Milan, Jerome, Augustin of Hippo, and St. Bernard. The last of the fathers. St. Bernard (1091-1153). The schoolmen who followed treated their subjects…
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