edification. 

[pg ix]

“from a Catholic point of view;”

“admitted any actual interference with known facts without notice,”

 This being so, it was with no little surprise I found myself lately accused of want of truth, because I have followed great authorities in attributing to Christians of the middle of the third century what is certainly to be found in the fourth,—devotions, representations, and doctrines, declaratory of the high dignity of the Blessed Virgin. If I had left out all mention of these, I should have been simply untrue to my idea and apprehension of Primitive Christianity. To what positive and certain facts do I run counter in so doing, even granting that I am indulging my imagination? But I have allowed myself no such indulgence; I gave good reasons long ago, in my “Letter to Dr. Pusey” (pp. 53–76), for what I believe on this matter and for what I have in “Callista” described. 

“Letter to Dr. Pusey”

“Callista”

[pg x]

[pg xi]

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CALLISTA;

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