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... brought the Gospel do not materially vary , and are confirmed by subsequent history . Most of them are connected with Fife , which was the centre of his ministry . He meets Adamnan at Inchkeith , and having asked Adamnan " How he should ...
... brought the Gospel do not materially vary , and are confirmed by subsequent history . Most of them are connected with Fife , which was the centre of his ministry . He meets Adamnan at Inchkeith , and having asked Adamnan " How he should ...
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... brought the relics of St Andrew from Patras in Achaia to St Andrews , where he received a gift of a district called the Boar's Chase — a name still preserved in Boar's Hill— from Hungus or Angus , a Pictish king . A confusion not yet ...
... brought the relics of St Andrew from Patras in Achaia to St Andrews , where he received a gift of a district called the Boar's Chase — a name still preserved in Boar's Hill— from Hungus or Angus , a Pictish king . A confusion not yet ...
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... brought as exiles to his Court three members of the dethroned Saxon royal house . Edgar the Atheling , and his sisters Mar- garet and Christina , were children of Edward , the son of Edmund Ironside , who had been driven from England by ...
... brought as exiles to his Court three members of the dethroned Saxon royal house . Edgar the Atheling , and his sisters Mar- garet and Christina , were children of Edward , the son of Edmund Ironside , who had been driven from England by ...
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... brought the news of her husband's death . Her last breath was spent in the prayer that this trial might purge her from sin . Under cover of a fog her body was taken out of the castle by the door in the western bastion recently restored ...
... brought the news of her husband's death . Her last breath was spent in the prayer that this trial might purge her from sin . Under cover of a fog her body was taken out of the castle by the door in the western bastion recently restored ...
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... brought from Dunstaffnage , perhaps from Ireland - that it came from the Holy Land , where it had served as Jacob's pillow , is a modern superstition - and of sanctu- ary and composition for his kin who committed murder in hot blood ...
... brought from Dunstaffnage , perhaps from Ireland - that it came from the Holy Land , where it had served as Jacob's pillow , is a modern superstition - and of sanctu- ary and composition for his kin who committed murder in hot blood ...
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