Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the site is still recognised, and is called by the inhabitants St. Maliere, an evident corrup- tion of the word Maglorius. In Jersey the success of this pious and zealous missionary among the pagan occupants of that island was remarkable. There, by his powerful preaching and by his exemplary life, the word of the Gospel proved so great a blessing to the inha- bitants, that it is said they all cast away their idolatrous rites and practices, and, including their governor, were baptized into the Christian faith by the Bishop himself. There Maglorius died, and was buried in a little chapel, the foundations of which are still pointed out in the parish of St. Saviour’s. Thus, says the historian Falle, ‘'Thus did Christianity gain an entrance into these islands, and that at a time when it was yet pure, unmixed with any hurtful errors, either in faith or practice. It was the same Christianity which the old British Churches professed antecedently to Austin’s mission into England by Gregory the Great. For they who first preached it to us were themselves ministers of those Churches.” About the ninth century a horde of pirates, banded together under the name of Sarrazins, distinguished themselves in the annals of these islands. Their very name inspired terror along the coast of France, and their career was