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canonised in 1227), popularity sprang tip, it was
quite usual for it to be discovered that miracles were
being wrought at their tombs. The case of the
popular Archbishop Scrope who was executed is a
typical one. In tins way the calendar of saints was
enlarged, the devout had a new interest, the Church
maintained its position in the popular ej-e and mind,
and its funds increased.

The mediaeval Church, however, appeared perhaps
at its best in its Church services, which drew their
effect from the sanctity of the magnificent building
(whether cathedral or parish church), the awe inspired
by the Church politic, the use of Latin and the
learned atmosphere, the religious teaching, and, not
least, the imposing ceremonies, and the ornate
ritual performed amid a profusion of lighted wax
candles by priests and dignitaries in resplendent
vestments.

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only school engaged in higher education in
York in the century was St. Peter's School, a. very
old foundation) where Alcuin, who (in 782) had
carried educational reform to the land of the Franks,
had been master. At this school, which was attached
to the cathedral, were educated those who were
to spend their lives in scholarship, especially, as now,
after residence at Oxford or Cambridge ; future
priests and clerks; the sons of the nobility and of the
more wealthy members of the merchant class in the
city. Other regular schools were the Gram mar School
at the royal Hospital of St. Leonard and the one at
Fossgate Hospital. This educational work was one
of the most valuable kinds of public work done by
these hospitals.