Abraham, St., the hermit, 50;
  quoted, 60. 
Abstinence, no virtue in false, 419. 
Accountability, personal, sense of maintained by monks, 414. 
Act of Succession, 298. 
Agriculture, monasteries centers of, 155;
  and the Cistercian monks, 192;
  fostered by monks, 403.
  See Benedict, Order of St.
Alaric the Goth sacks Rome, 103. 
Albans, St., Abbey of, Morton on its vices, 338. 
Albertus Magnus, a Dominican, 242. 
Albigensians, Hallam on doctrines of, 232;
  Hardwick on same, 233;
  Dominic preaches against, 234;
  Dominic’s part in crusade against, 235. 
Alcuin, on corruptions of monks, 173;
  education and, 167. 
Alexander IV., Pope, on the stigmata of St. Francis, 221;
  and the University of Paris quarrel, 250. 
Alfred, King, the Great, complains of monks, 173;
  his reformatory measures, 181. 
Alien Priories, confiscated, 338;
  origin of, 340. 
Allen, on the fate of the Templars, 202;
  on Dominic and the Albigensian crusade, 238;
  on spiritual pride of the Mendicants, 257;
  on the genius of feudalism, 373;
  on the deficiencies of monastic characters, 394. 
Alms-giving, see Charity. 
Alverno, Mount, and the stigmata of St. Francis, 219. 
Ambrose, embraces ascetic Christianity, 84;
  Theodosius on, 115;
  saying of Gibbon applied to, 116;
  describes Capraria, 126;
  his influence on Milanese women, 126. 
Ammonius, the hermit, visits Rome, 72. 
Anglicans, claims of, respecting the early British Church, 162. 
Anglo-Saxons and British Christianity, 164. 
Anglo-Saxon Church, effect of Danish invasion on, 181;
  effect of Dunstan’s work on, 187.
  See Britain. 
Anslem, of Canterbury, on flight from the world, 369. 
Anthony, St.,
  visits Paul of Thebes, 37;
  his strange experiences, 38;
  buries Paul, 41;
  birth and early life of, 43;
  his austerities, 44, 45;
  miracles of, 46;
  his fame and influence, 47;
  his death, 48;
  Taylor on biography of, 48. 
Ap Rice, a Royal Commissioner, 311. 
Aquinas, Thomas, a Dominican, 242. 
Ascetic, The, his morbid introspection, 392;
  meaning of word, 425.
  See Monks and Hermits. 
Asceticism, in India, 18-20, 357;
  among Chaldeans, 20;
  in China, 20;
  among the Greeks, 21, 22;
  the Essenes, 23;
  in apostolic times, 27;
  the Gnostics, 27;
  and the Bible, 30, 366;
  in post-apostolic times, 31;
  modifications of, under Basil, 64;
  protests against, in early Rome, 124;
  various forms of, 385;
  effects of, 391, 401.
  See Monasticism. 
Aske, Robert, heads revolt against Henry VIII., 326. 
Athanasius, St., visits hermits, 35;
  his life of Anthony, 42;
  influence of same on Rome, 80, 83;
  spreads Pachomian rule, 63;
  visits Rome, 71,
    and effect of, 80;