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48 Ibid.
49 Leo the Great, Sermons 75:5, ibid., p. 191.
50 Harold Hunter, in his article, “Tongues-Speech: A Patristic Analysis,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 23:2 (June 1980), p. 135, disagrees with this interpretation of Leo’s Sermon 75:2, in favor of that of George Williams and Edith Waldvogel, according to which Leo believed in an “Augustinian” understanding of the relationship of the events of Pentecost to the institutional church. There is little basis for the belief that Leo I believed in a cessation of the gift as it existed in the first century, for the present author is not aware of any primary sources indicating this to be the case. Faced with the threat of Attila the Hun preparing to invade Rome the year after Paris was spared through the prophetic ministry of Genevieve, Leo may well have relied either upon Genevieve herself or upon prophetic gifts of his own in venturing our into Atilla’s camp with only two companions and a pastoral staff in his hands, trusting that, by God’s grace, disaster would somehow be averted, which indeed is what happened.
52 Ibid.
53 F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, second edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974), p. 150.
54 The Venerable Bede, Ecclesiastical History of England, Chapter 31, trans. J. A. Giles (London: George Bell & Sons, 1900), p. 57.
55 W. J. Sparrow-Simpson, Lectures on St. Bernard of Clairvaux (London: J. Masters and Co., 1895), p. 40.
56 Ibid., p. 43.
57 Henry Osborne Taylor, The Medieval Mind (London: Macmillan & Co., 1911), vol. 1, pp. 442-470.
58 Alexander Mackie, The Gift of Tongues (New York: George H. Doran Co., 1921), p. 41.
59 Philip T. Weller, ed., The Roman Ritual (Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Co., 1952), vol. 2, p. 169, as quoted by Morton T. Kelsey, Tongue Speaking (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1964), p. 46.
60 Stanley M. Burgess, “Medieval Examples of Charismatic Piety in the Roman Catholic Church,” in Russell P. Spittler, Perspectives on the New Pentecostalism (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976), p. 25.
61 Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science During the First Thirteen Centuries of Our Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1923), vol. 2, p. 129.
62 Butler, op. cit., September 17, vol. 3, p. 582.
63 Burgess, op. cit., p. 21, citing Acta sanctorum quotquot tot orbe coluntur, vel a Catholicis scriptoribus celebrantar. . .notis illustravit Joannes Bollandus (Antwerp: apud Ioannem Mersium, 1643), September V, 683.
64 Henry Osborn Taylor, The Medieval Mind (London: Macmillan & Co., 1911), vol. 1, p. 448, quoting Pitra, Analecta Sanctae Hildegardis opera Spiclilegio Solesmensi parata (1882), vol. 8, p. 523.
65 Butler, op. cit., September 17, vol. 3, p. 582.
66 Francis C. Lehner, ed., St. Dominic: Biographical Documents (Washington, D.C.: 1964), pp. 52-53, as cited by George H. Williams and Edith Waldvogel, “A History of Speaking in Tongues and Related Gifts,” in Michael P. Hamilton, ed., The Charismatic Movement (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1975), p. 70.
67 Francis of Assisi, The Fioretti, Chapter 8, as quoted in Omer Englebert, St. Francis of Assisi, trans. Edward Hutton (London: Burns Oates, 1950), pp. 203-204.
68 Margaret W. Oliphant, Francis of Assisi (London: Macmillan & Co., 1889), p. 130.
69 Ibid., p. 134.
70 J. D. Douglas, ed., The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974), p. 51.
71 Ibid.
72 George H. Williams and Edith Waldvogel, “A History of Speaking in Tongues and Related Gifts,” in Michael P. Hamilton, ed., The Charismatic Movement (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1975), pp. 70-71.
73 Ibid., citing Raphael Huber, St. Anthony of Padua (Milwaukee, 1948), p. 54.
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