 | Elizabeth Pepper, John Wilcock - 2000 - 312 sider
...over from their heathen predecessors — that of holding services at sites already considered sacred. "If those temples are well built, it is requisite...worship of devils to the service of the true God," wrote Gregory the Great in 601 (quoted in Bede's Ecclesiastical History), "that the nations, seeing... | |
 | Ronald C. Finucane - 1995 - 262 sider
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 | Raymond Selkirk - 1995 - 430 sider
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 | Dauril Alden - 1996 - 768 sider
...temples be preserved, "for if the shrines are well built, it is essential that they should be changed from the worship of devils to the service of the true God." Bertram Colgrave and RAB Mynors, eds., Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Oxford,... | |
 | Ciaran Carson - 1997 - 312 sider
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 | James Muldoon - 1997 - 228 sider
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 | Kenneth Mills, Kenneth Mills, MA, BSc, FRCS - 1997 - 364 sider
...his journey to Britain in 601, Pope Gregory the Great had instructed him to "convert" pagan temples "from the worship of Devils to the service of the true God" by sprinkling holy water and erecting altars.23 More than a millennium later, when padres from the... | |
 | Carole M. Cusack - 1998 - 232 sider
...place relics in them. For if the shrines are well built, it is essential that they should be changed from the worship of devils to the service of the true God. When the people see that their shrines are not destroyed they will be able to banish error from their... | |
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English, determined upon, viz., that the temples of the idols in that nation ought not to be destroyed; but let the idols that are in them be destroyed; let holy water be made and sprinkled in the said temples, let altars be erected, and relics placed.... 
