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                               THE
                       Lives of the Saints

                       REV. S. BARING-GOULD

                         _SIXTEEN VOLUMES_

                         VOLUME THE FIRST




  [Illustration: SILVER-GILT MONSTRANCE,
                 In the Treasury of the Cathedral, Aix-la-Chapelle.]




                               THE
                       Lives of the Saints


                             BY THE
                   REV. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A.


                   New Edition in 16 Volumes


       Revised with Introduction and Additional Lives of
           English Martyrs, Cornish and Welsh Saints,
              and a full Index to the Entire Work


             _ILLUSTRATED BY OVER 400 ENGRAVINGS_


                        VOLUME THE FIRST

                            January


                            LONDON
                        JOHN C. NIMMO
                14 KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND
                          MDCCCXCVII




           _Printed by_ BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO.
                _At the Ballantyne Press_




AUTHOR'S PREFACE
TO FIRST EDITION
(1872)


The Lives of the Saints, which I have begun, is an undertaking, of
whose difficulty few can have any idea. Let it be remembered, that
there were Saints in every century, for eighteen hundred years; that
their Acts are interwoven with the profane history of their times,
and that the history, not of one nation only, but of almost every
nation under the sun; that the records of these lives are sometimes
fragmentary, sometimes mere hints to be culled out of secular history;
that authentic records have sometimes suffered interpolation, and that
some records are forgeries; that the profane history with which the