Excerpt from Visible Unity of the Catholic Church, Vol. 1 of 2: Maintained Against Opposite Theories: With an Explanation of Certain Passages in Ecclesiastical History Erroneously Appealed to in Their Support

My Dear Lord,

In addition to the daily spiritual benefits conferred upon your own numerous flock by your Lordship's unwearied pastoral exertions, many a stranger's heart is cheered and gladdened by the hospitable welcome which your truly Christian kindness so largely extends to all.

Englishmen especially may thereby be reminded of the generous and cordial greeting with which Ireland in ancient days received her many visitants from the Anglo-Saxon and the British nations, who thronged as students to her far-famed halls of learning, or sought the way to heaven, as disciples of Christ, in her equally celebrated schools of piety and high religion.

The motives which led to my long sojourn in your Lordship's diocese were more ordinary in their nature, and did not entitle me to any such reception.

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