AUGUSTINE Regarding the position of St.Augustine (354-430) throughout the Middle Ages, it is here sufficient to quote a few words of Gustav Krueger: "The theological position and influence of Augustine may be said to be unrivalled.

No single name has ever exercised such power over the Christian Church, and no one mind ever made so deep an impression on Christian thought.

In him scholastics and mystics, popes and opponents of the papal supremacy, have seen their champion.

He was the fulcrum on which Luther rested the thoughts by which be sought to lift the past of the Church out of the rut; yet the judgment of Catholics still proclaims the ideals of Augustine as the only sound basis of pbilosopby." ABBEY OF ST.

DENIS The abbey of St.Denis was founded about 625 by Dagobert, son of Lothair II, at some distance from the basilica which the clergy of Paris had erected in the fifth century over the saint's tomb.