HISTORICAL SOURCES. NOTE.
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In this, as in all the historical fictions I have written, all words or deeds attributed to historical persons are, as far as I could ascertain, strictly historical.
The chief authorities for the history in this story are, the Latin Sermons and Epistles of St. Leo in the 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, by Canon Gore, and his article on St. Leo in Smith’s Dictionary of Christian Biography, Canon Bright’s Translations of St. Leo’s Sermons, and various other authorities on Liturgies and ecclesiastical customs, usually deemed trustworthy.
