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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1833 Excerpt: ... DELINEATIONS or ST ANDREWS. CHAPTER I. GENERAL HISTORY. The origin of St Andrews is involved in obscurity, and has even been attributed to a miraculous event. But, though this be too absurd to deserve any credit, yet we must begin our account with the following story, as having, not unlikely, had some foundation in truth. The reader can be at no loss to distinguish those circumstances of it which admit probability from such as have been the additions of imposture or credulity. It is thus related by Fordun and the other early Scottish writers. A Greek monk, they inform us, of the name of Regulus, abbot of a monastery at Patrae, a town in the province of Achaia, was admonished by a vision to abandon his native country, and, like the father and founder of a celebrated ancient nation, to depart without delay into a far distant land. This, he was told, was an island in the great ocean, situated in the remotest extremity of the western world, and known by the name of Albion. But, previously to his departure, he was commanded to visit the shrine of the apostle St Andrew, whose relics had been deposited in the above-mentioned city, and to take up from the tomb the arm-bone, three of the fingers, and three of the toes of the apostle, to be the companions and protectors of his long and perilous voyage. The saint was so faithless that he hesitated with respect to obedience, startled, it would appear, at the magnitude of the enterprize he was commanded to undertake. But the admonition having been repeated in a more awful and terrific form, and menaces employed in case of farther disobedience, the reluctant abbot was at length induced to comply. He repaired to the holy shrine, took up the commanded relics, deposited them in a box which he got constructed for the purpose...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217464459
- ISBN 13 9780217464451
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages52
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