Hymn: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

"Arising from the gloom of a dark age, he is still considered one of the most illustrious of the learned men of England."

The underrated chronicler who paints "fully and vividly the thought and feeling of Britain in the fifty years of peace which preceded her final overthrow."

During the early middle ages teaching was done wholly by the clergy. In some of the towns and villages there were elementary schools taught by the parish priests. In the monasteries and

"He believed in France, he believed in the Monarchy, and he believed in the Church as the support of the Throne. His one ambition was to make France great..."