Incursus apostolorum ex
Hibernia videtur quidem fuisse impetum improvisum juventutis in mundum senescentem,
atque etiam in Ecclesiam quæ senescere videbatur. Martyriti sunt nonnulli in
litore Cornoviense, et auctor maximus de antiquitatibus Cornoviensibus mihi
dixit se nullo modo credere eos martyritos esse a paganis, sed (ut jucunde ait)
“a Christianis lentioribus”.
The
rush of missionaries from Ireland, for instance, has all the air of an
unexpected onslaught of young men on an old world, and even on a Church that
showed signs of growing old. Some of them were martyred on the coast of
Cornwall; and the chief authority on Cornish antiquities told me that he did
not believe for a moment that they were martyred by heathens but (as he expressed
it with some humour) “by rather slack Christians”.
—G.
K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
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