Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England (1895)
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903, Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 · Philadelphia : J. C. Winston & co. · leaf 116
o whose work the lot fell was one whose name commands far more unquestionedrespect than the weak King Henry; it was the Cardinal Archbishop, the great StephenLangton, whose work still remains amongst us in the familiar division of the Bibleinto chapters, and in thfe Alagna Charta, which he was the… … Ccxulrrhiiiy. Ill crypt by uiglit with psalms aud liymus; aud after prayer and fasting, at midnightsolemnly approached the tomb and removed the stones which closed it, and with tearsof joy saw for the first time the remains of the saint. Four priests, distinguished forthe sanctity of their lives,…
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