Churches of Yorkshire, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Drake is of opinion that York was first planted and fortified by Agricola. Lucius, a British King, who is said to have been the first crowned head in the world that embraced Christianity, was probably born there, as it was the residence of his father, Coilus. Many English writers refer the conversion of this country to the reign of King Lucius,* of whom the old book of Landaff says, that he sent Eluanus and Medwinus to Eleutherius, the twelfth Bishop of Rome, requesting that he might be made a Christian through his instruction; and that on the return of these messengers, Lucius and the chief of the Britons were baptized, and Bishops consecrated for the dissemination of Christianity.

During the third century, the Church was subject to much persecution, which Constantius Chlorus, when he was declared Emperor, put an end to. His son, Constantine the Great, followed in the steps of his father, when it pleased God that most of the outward miseries of his Christian servants should terminate. (a.d.

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