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explored recesses, sometimes creations out of more tangible elements—unhealthy fogs, wild beasts, aboriginal forest-men, banished enemies and outlaws. Of some such nature, or possibly of more definitely individual character, may have been the evil thing which S. Martha was traditionally represented as combating.
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10. "wood": wild, mad, furious.
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9. "unnethe": with difficulty, scarcely. A.S. unéadig.
20. "Emorissa": afflicted with a flux of blood.
29. Ambrose: Saint and Doctor of the Church, Bishop of Milan in the year 374, famous for his share in the conversion of S. Augustine, his eloquent and learned writings, and his courageous stand against the Emperor Theodosius, whom he compelled to do public penance for a great crime.
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2. "to-broken": broken to pieces; to is an intensive prefix. Cf. Judges ix. 53, A.V., "all to brake his skull."
21. "tourbe": crowd, multitude. Lat. turba.
23. "Eli": "my God."
32. "harbour," like German herberge, meant a place of refuge or shelter for land-travellers as well as for sea-farers.
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17. Petrogoricke: later Périgueux. S. Frontonius, in Modern French "Saint Front," is honoured as its patron.
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22. Clovis, in the original Frankish Chlodwig, Latinised into "Clodovæus" (Ludwig and Louis and Ludovicus are really the same name): a chief of the Franks who by his victories over Roman and other rivals, laid the foundations of a Frankish empire, and was baptised a Christian by S. Remy at Rheims in 496.
SS. ADRIAN AND NATALIE
These Acts are characteristic of the very numerous records and legends which remain to us from the fierce ordeal which Christianity underwent during the days of Maximian, Galerius and Diocletian—the days immediately preceding its formal recognition by the Emperor Constantine. This persecution
