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Such was the rude violence of the times, that even in the general

disposition to do honour to their archbishop, they were on the

point of crushing him: and this defence would not have been

sufficient, if two priests, of great vigour and presence of mind,

had not raised him in their arms, and carried him from the church

door to the foot of the great altar. His very first entrance into

the church, therefore, might be recorded amidst his pastoral

labours and the dangers he had run.