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Gibbon says twenty years: Sharon Turner gives 1074. Bollandist. Mai. 5. Ranke's Hist. of the Popes. "The battle of Lepanto arrested for ever the danger of Mahometan invasion in the south of Europe." Alison's Europe, vol. ix. p. 95.
But the system which encouraged it must bear a large part of the blame. Meanwhile he had been employed by Newman on an uncongenial task. After the discontinuance of Tracts for the Times, Newman projected another series, called Lives of the Saints. The idea was of course taken from the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum. But Newman had a definite polemical purpose.
This biographer according to the conscientious and painstaking investigations of the Bollandist Fathers, who examine in their careful way all the guarantees and traditions of the manuscript with a jealousy worthy of the most enlightened historians is not Turgot, who is usually credited with it, but Theodoric, a monk of Durham, who must have shared with Turgot, at some period of his life, the office of spiritual director and confidant to the Queen.
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