Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mencement of the sixth century. About the same period, Sampson, Bishop of St. David’s in Pembrokeshire, quitted his native country, and went over into Brittany, where he re- ceived the bishopric of Dol, to which Childe- bert, then King of France, added Guernsey and Jersey, with the other islands contiguous to them. This bishop appears to have visited Guernsey, and was probably the first who intro- duced the knowledge of Christianity into the island. The port where he landed is called St. Sampson’s harbour to this day, and the bishop is said there to have erected a small chapel. Sampson was succeeded in his episcopal office by a relation of the name of Maglorius, who is said to have visited the islands and preached the Gospel among their inhabitants about the year 565. He appears first to have landed at Sark, where he founded a sort of mis- sionary house, which it is interesting to find was still in existence eight hundred years subsequently, as may be gathered from a record in the Remembrancer’s office, from which it is evident that a small sum for the sup- port of this establishment was allowed by the crown. In Guernsey, Maglorius built a chapel in the parish of the Vale; and though the building itself has long since gone to decay.