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Excerpt from The Life of St. Columba, Founder of Hy
Annals, which, with scrupulous fidelity, record the year of his death; and the Calendars, which, with equal exactness, tell the day of the month on which it occurred, and name his church; and, on the other, the Life, which too often bids defiance to truth, reason, and decency, and, instead of history, presents a Specimen of the meanest fiction. The early Bollandists printed many of these compositions, but sub ject to strong protest; the later editors have, in many cases, exercised their own discretion more summarily, and substituted Acts for Lives.
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