. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . ine the GreatChristianity was established here as in other parts of the Empire. St Chryso-stom ( 347-407) was recording fact when he wrote of the churches andaltars which had been erected in Britain. As we shall see, when the paganSaxons came these sanctuaries were in many cases destroyed, and in somecases utilized as pagan shrines. St Athanasius is also giving us accurate historywhen he speaks of British bishops being present at the Synod at Sardica,an ecclesiastical council convened by Constautius and Constans in 343 toattempt a settl
. England, from earliest times to the Great Charter . ine the GreatChristianity was established here as in other parts of the Empire. St Chryso-stom ( 347-407) was recording fact when he wrote of the churches andaltars which had been erected in Britain. As we shall see, when the paganSaxons came these sanctuaries were in many cases destroyed, and in somecases utilized as pagan shrines. St Athanasius is also giving us accurate historywhen he speaks of British bishops being present at the Synod at Sardica,an ecclesiastical council convened by Constautius and Constans in 343 toattempt a settlement of the Arian controversy which was then dividing theChristian world. We shall hereafter have to consider the later heresy intro-duced at the beginning of the fifth century at Rome by the British (or perhapsIrish) monk Pelagius, a philosophy which was condemned in 418 and whichcaused the bishops of Gaul to send (in 429) Germanus of Auxerre and I/upusof Troyes to Britain to persuade the wandering flock to return once more tothe orthodox fold. 62. PtATE IX. Thb Neptune Ai<tar THE ROMAN OCCUPATION allusions to the old mythologies : Actaeon changes into astag, Adonis dies, Cupid plays with a dog, a Triton and Sirensand Harpies pass before us. Neptune is thanked, and Oceanusinvoked, by bold mariners thankful to have crossed the angryseas, or trembling before the perils of a future voyage. Dol-phins dance round Venus or disport themselves round On numerous altars and tombstones the men ofthose days have told us, speaking as it were from the grave,of their beliefs, of their gods, of their hopes. Of the religionsbeloved by the soldiers in Britain, not the least popularwas that manly and soldierlike faith which came from theEast and was called after its deity Mithras. Thus upon aChester tombstone we find the figure of a boy, erect, withcrossed legs, dressed in a tunic to his knees, wearing on hishead a Phrygian cap, his left hand on his chest, the righthand hol
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