Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · London : Isbister & company, limited · leaf 200
rst company ofsolitaries was multiplied. In the midst of his success he re-ceived a summons, which he could not evade, to Rome, tobecome the adviser of the Pope, Urban II. After some timeagain he refused an archbishopric in Italy (that of Reggio)and at length obtained permission to found another… … The Grand-Sum. 186 LA GRANDE CHARTREUSE. one, worn out by austerities, gave up his anxious soul to hisCreator. But his work has been strangely enduring. ThroughoutEurope the Carthusian order spread. In the beginning of thesixteenth century (a.d. i52i) the number of religious housesowning the stern…
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