Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England . N order to give a complete view of theposition and work of the parochial clergyin town and country, it is necessary toindicate, however briefly, both their con-nection with the cathedral and their relations withthe monasteries. In this chapter we attempt theformer subject; the latter in a following chapter. We must glance back at our history and recall thetime when the cathedral was the mother church ofthe diocese, and the bishop and his clergy livedtogether as one family. Some of them remainedalways at head-quarters to keep up th
Parish priests and their people in the middle ages in England . N order to give a complete view of theposition and work of the parochial clergyin town and country, it is necessary toindicate, however briefly, both their con-nection with the cathedral and their relations withthe monasteries. In this chapter we attempt theformer subject; the latter in a following chapter. We must glance back at our history and recall thetime when the cathedral was the mother church ofthe diocese, and the bishop and his clergy livedtogether as one family. Some of them remainedalways at head-quarters to keep up the Divine servicewith as full a choir as their circumstances permitted,and to carry on the schools, which formed so impor-tant a branch of their work of Christian civilization ;while others were itinerating hither and thitherthrough the diocese preaching the gospel to thepeople. Then, we remember, came the gradualorganization of the parochial system, by which the. A
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