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CHAPTER<br />

II.<br />

RELIGIOUS LIFE IN ENGLAND.<br />

LITURGY<br />

AND DISCIPLINE.<br />

(1066-1200.)<br />

THE Norman Conquest found the Saxons at large<br />

effete Christians who were fast relapsing into barbarism.<br />

<strong>The</strong> national vices were gaining the upper<br />

hand, and all that was strong and noble in their<br />

nature was lost sight <strong>of</strong> in the passions " <strong>of</strong> the hour.<br />

Still the Island <strong>of</strong> Saints held to its inheritance.<br />

<strong>The</strong> fragrance <strong>of</strong> St. Gregory's angeli lingered in<br />

St. Wulstan and St. Edward. <strong>The</strong> new foreign<br />

yoke tried and perfected a race which contributed<br />

so large an element to the formation <strong>of</strong> a :reat<br />

people.<br />

At the time <strong>of</strong> the Conquest the higher life was<br />

represented by two religious bodies, Benedictines<br />

and Austin Canons, who throughout remained the<br />

most numerous. Excepting the Carthusians, every<br />

order or reform originally belonged to one <strong>of</strong> these<br />

tw< great famil Th f. f Cl d f<br />

Cit w o f: St. Benedict, wh tl<br />

Canons, who followed the Eule <strong>of</strong> St. Augustine,<br />

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