Re: quotes quiz (fwd)

[Stephanie Malone Thorson <smt2@st-andrews.ac.uk>]

Poster: Stephanie Malone Thorson <smt2@st-andrews.ac.uk>

Quoth Master Vuong Manh in reply to Miriam Esther's trivia quiz:

> 10) Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my King, he would not
> have given me over in my grey hairs.
> The last Cardinal of England, whose name escapes me for the moment; the
> King he had served (with less diligence than he pretended) was Henry VIII.

I believe it was Cardinal Wolsey (pronounced Wool-sey)

> 12)Kill them all, and God will know his own.
> St. Dominic, explaining how to deal with the difficulty of telling French
> speaking Provencal Cathars (bad) from French speaking Provencal Catholics
> (good).

Also attributed to a French archbishop whose name escapes me, before the 
crusaders entered Antioch and were unclear as to how to distinguish the 
Christians from the Moslems.

> 14) Let the boy win his spurs.
> Henry III Plantagenet, being told that the division commanded by his son
> Edward (aw, you know -- the Black Prince) was being hotly pressed by the
> French at Crecy.

Actually, it was _Edward_ III Plantagenent; great-grandson of Henry III, 
but the rest of the particulars are right.  :)

> 24) Non Angli, sed Angeli. (Not Angles, but Angels)
> St. Augustine again, this time speaking of some fair-haired slaves whose
> nationality he had asked about.  ("Them?  They's Angles...")

Sorry, but it was Pope Saint Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I) who is 
reported to have said that (by Bede in the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis 
Anglorum).

--Alianora
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