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The Formation of Christendom
Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies. You do not currently have access to this article. From the Breach with Rome, in , to the Present Time. Gillow, his conscientious record of minute particulars, and especially his exhaustive bibliographical information in connection with each name, are beyond praise. It is in the perusal of such details that we bring home to ourselves the truly heroic sacrifices that our forefathers endured in those dark and dismal times.
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