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Updated: June 7, 2025
The houses of the English Benedictines on the Continent were situated at Douay , at Dieulouard , at Paris , Saint-Malo and Lambspring in Germany . The members bound themselves by oath to labour for the re-conversion of their country, and the list of Benedictine martyrs who died for the faith in England bears testimony to the fact that their oath was faithfully observed.
She chatted to him now and again; she returned to the mirror to touch her eyebrows and adjust her sash; she walked about or flicked the dust from her shining Wellingtons with a silk handkerchief; again she contemplated herself in the glass, and lightly sang, "En débordant de Saint-Malo Nos longs avirons battaient l'eau!"
Such was the goodly company Saint-Malo bound, who warped from Calais Harbor to plunge into the thick reek of a Channel mist. A slight breeze blew from the eastward, and the highended, round-bodied craft rolled slowly down the Channel.
Thus we find two Guinemers in the eleventh century, one in Palestine, the other in Italy. About this same period the family probably left Flanders to settle in Brittany, where they remained until the Revolution. The corsair of Boulogne became a ship-builder at Saint-Malo, having his own reasons for changing parishes.
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