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... strong views in my favour were not confined to Protestants, I may quote the following letter written from the Augustinian Convent in Drogheda by ...

— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey

... Lacy, a Norman knight, and Ernisius, chaplain to Maud, wife of Henry I. They first built a small chapel dedicated to St. David; gifts flowed in, and they were soon enabled to construct a grand religious house, occupied by Augustinian monks, of whom Ernisius became the first prior. Predatory raids by the Welsh, however, harassed the monks, and after submitting for some time to these annoyances they migrated to Gloucester, and founded another priory alongside the Severn. Later, however, they returned to the ...

— England, Picturesque and Descriptive - A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel • Joel Cook

... from tradition were compelled to do their thinking in that age. They could not break the age-long spell and mighty fascination with which the Adam story and the Garden of Eden picture had held the Christian world. They were convinced, however, that the Augustinian interpretation of the fall, with its entail of an indelible taint upon the race forever, was an inadequate, if not an untrue account, though they could not quite arrive at an insight which enabled ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

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