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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Chap. IV. How Lucius, king of Britain, writing to Pope Eleutherus, desired to be made a Christian.

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In the year of our Lord 156, Marcus Antoninus Verus,41 the fourteenth from Augustus, was made emperor, together with his brother, Aurelius Commodus. In their time, whilst the holy Eleutherus presided over the Roman Church, Lucius, king of Britain, sent a letter to him, entreating that by a mandate from him he might be made a Christian.42 He soon obtained his pious request, and the Britons preserved the faith, which they had received, uncorrupted and entire, in peace and tranquillity until the time of the Emperor Diocletian.

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, Project Gutenberg eBook #38326

Chap. III. How Claudius, the second of the Romans who came into Britain, brought the islands Orcades into subjection to the Roman empire; and Vespasian, sent by him, reduced the Isle of Wight under the dominion of the Romans. Chap. V. How the Emperor Severus divided from the rest by a rampart that part of Britain which had been recovered.