. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. ocent IV. sent to PrinceDavid of Galich a crown, and a promise of help, of sendinga crusade of Western Christians against the Mongols, if hewould abandon his schism. The papal legates visited thecourt of S. Alexander Nevski, Prince of Novgorod, but herefused to receive the letter or hsten to the , however, acted more cautiously, owing to his proximity to Vengria and Poland. He accepted the crown andthe title of King of Galich,
. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. ocent IV. sent to PrinceDavid of Galich a crown, and a promise of help, of sendinga crusade of Western Christians against the Mongols, if hewould abandon his schism. The papal legates visited thecourt of S. Alexander Nevski, Prince of Novgorod, but herefused to receive the letter or hsten to the , however, acted more cautiously, owing to his proximity to Vengria and Poland. He accepted the crown andthe title of King of Galich, but put off the proposition for aunion of the Churches till there should be an oecumenicalcouncil. A Prince Caloman on the frontiers proved moreaccessible. Fearing lest the steadfast adhesion of the Rus-sians to the orthodox faith should furnish an excuse to theTeutonic Order to invade and possess themselves of histerritory, he listened to the solicitations of S. Hyacinth, andabandoned communion with the Eastern Church. Hyacinth died on Aug. 14, 1257, at the age ofseventy-two. His relics are preserved in a chapel dedicatedto him at Cracow. *-. Aug., p. 154.] S. ROCH. After Cahier. [Aug. 16. ■* August x6.] 155 S. ROCH, C. (14TH CENT.) [Martyrologists of the 15th cent. Modern Roman Martyrology. Autho-rities :—A Hfe by Franciscus Diedus, a Venetian, governor of Brixen, writtenin 1478. This is the earhest hfe of S. Roch. He says in his prologue :— Although we have found iiothing trustworthy about Roch in ancientwriters or in sacred codices, we have collected much from barbarousfragments in Latin or in the vulgar tongue, lest the race, travels, life anddeath of this holy man should remain in obscurity. In a word his hfe wasfounded on popular legends of the same authority as the chap-books of alater age. Another life from a MS. at Belfast is published by the Bollan-dists. These Uves are thoroughly apocryphal.] It is difficult to say to how much of the romance of S
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