...of these saints. The author of the " Lives of Hermit-Saints " endeavours to account for the fact, " that so much has been said and believed of a number of saints with so little historical foundation" (p. 3). With reference to the miracles of St. Helier we are told, that " there is no proof that the...

...of these saints. The author of the " Lives of Hermit-Saints " endeavours to account for the fact, " that so much has been said and believed of a number of saints with so little historical foundation" (p. 3). With reference to the miracles of St. Helier we are told, that " there is no proof that the...

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...History, will be found in the following passages from the ' Lives of the English Saints :' * * When " so much has been said and believed of a number of...refuse a great gift and benefit, historical testimony, end the intellectual exercises which attend on it, study, research, ind criticism ; for in the hands...