The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 2 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
There is also a cenotaph in the Cathedral at Gloucester, a prebend of
which church is annexed to the mastership of Pembroke College, by the
liberality of Queen Anne.
Few men were ever more universally esteemed, or were more deserving of
being so. His abilities and learning commanded respect; kindness,
generosity, and benevolence endeared him to every friend; whilst good
nature and convivial manners made him the favorite of each casual
acquaintance.
To him the Editor is indebted for his good fortune in being himself a
member of Pembroke College.
The parish feast is celebrated on the Sunday nearest to All Saints,
November the first; but the church is known to claim for its patron
St. Just, the companion of St. Austin, Bishop of Rochester, and
afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. Little is handed down to
posterity of St. Just, but that little is entirely to his praise; at
the command of Pope Gregory the Great, he undertook the perilous but
successful service of converting the English Saxons; he attained the
highest ecclesiastical dignity from the suffrages of those who had
been brought by the labours of St. Austin and of his followers, within
the pale of the church; and he obtained deserved commendation from
Pope Boniface, either the third or fourth, who with one intermediate
Pope, were the successors of St. Gregory, when the apostolic
confirmation of his appointment to the metropolitan see was given, and
himself honoured by the investure of a pall. He is stated in the
Rubrics to have died on the 10th of November in the year 627.
Nothing seems to be more obvious, or to be more congenial to the human
mind, than an annual celebration of particular events. Nature has
completed in twelve months the most distinctly marked of her cycles.
The seasons are renewed in the same order; and, if experience did not
soon convince us of the contrary, we might be induced to think that
our own existence in this world was destined to tread the same
perpetual round.
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