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ATTILA AND HIS CONQUERORS.

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ATTILA
AND HIS CONQUERORS.

A STORY OF THE DAYS OF
ST. PATRICK AND ST. LEO THE GREAT.

BY
MRS. RUNDLE CHARLES,
AUTHOR OF
“CHRONICLES OF THE SCHÖNBERG-COTTA FAMILY,” “AGAINST THE STREAM,”
“THREE MARTYRS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,” ETC.

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HISTORICAL SOURCES.
NOTE.

In this, as in all the historical fictions I havewritten, all words or deeds attributed to historicalpersons are, as far as I could ascertain, strictlyhistorical.

The chief authorities for the history in this storyare, the Latin Sermons and Epistles of St. Leo inthe Acta Sanctorum, the writings of St. Patrick,Hodgkin’s Italy and her Invaders, L’histoire d’Attila,by Amadée Thierry, Milman’s Latin Christianity,Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, The Life of St. Leo, byCanon Gore, and his article on St. Leo in Smith’sDictionary of Christian Biography, Canon Bright’sTranslations of St. Leo’s Sermons, and variousother authorities on Liturgies and ecclesiasticalcustoms, usually deemed trustworthy.

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CONTENTS.