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To: sionnsar

"Amendment: All Anglican roads run through historical Canterbury back to the One Church."

Better said. I wonder if there are many people today in the Anglican Communion who even know about the great English and Scottish saints of the pre-Schism Church or the stupendous monasteries or better yet even, the Council of Whitby which changed so much in the British Isles. You know, there was a time when the "lights went out" all over most of Western Europe from the Adriatic to the Channel. But in England and Scotland and especially in Ireland there were monastic beacons of learning and orthodox Christianity which preserved The Faith in the West...and it was the exact same Faith that I practice today. Looking at the scene presented by the AC, I fear it cannot say the same thing and I doubt it would want to, sadly.


11 posted on 02/16/2007 7:30:59 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
But in England and Scotland and especially in Ireland there were monastic beacons of learning and orthodox Christianity which preserved The Faith in the West.

There is a book, "How the Irish Saved Western Civilization" or something like that (there's a copy in the library downstairs) that discusses this.

13 posted on 02/17/2007 7:48:50 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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