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tory ofRome in the Synod of Whitby. But the success of Wilfriddispelled a yet greater danger. Had England clung to theIrish Church it must have remained spiritually isolatedfrom the bulk of the western world. Fallen as Romemight be from its older greatness, it preserved the tradi-tions of… … EAST CLIFF, WHITBY THE ARCPIITECT 69 world. To repulse Rome was to condemn Entfland toisolation. The famous seventh-century monastery of Streon-shalh, where such stirring events once took place, haslong- ago disappeared, and today the lonely cliffs of Whitbyhold only a moldering, though highly…
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