fimilar eredtions,built a church here. But Melrofe, as afeat of religion, boafts a much earlierorigin. It was one of thofe churches, ormore properly mifiionary ftations, which the fathers of Irelandand of lona fpread over Britain and the continent: one ofthofe fimple nuclei of the Chriftian faith,… … l8o MELROSE ABBEY. which exifted prior to the Roman hierarchy in thefe iflands,and of which the profefTors prefented in their primitive habitsand primitive do6lrines (o apoftolic a character. The way in which thefe apoftles of lona were introducedinto this quarter is thus related by Venerable…
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