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the post Roman period, power and achievement lay with religion and
its representatives. The wisest and morally best, whatever of
culture survived in the progressive decay and persistent anarchy,
served the Church.
Like the ark riding the deluge the
Church preserved with her religious treasure, not only culture and
the graces of cultured living, but even the elementary decencies of
civilised behaviour, and did so in face of violence from without and
in spite of unworthy servants within.
In this time, lived the great woman known as St. Radegund. Born
about 518, some two years before the Romano British general known to
posterity as King Arthur won the last of many victories in which the
cavalry he had trained defeated the Saxon invader.
Radegund was a German princess, the
daughter of Berthaire, a Thuringian king. At that time Thuringia was
ruled by three brothers. One of the three, Radegund's uncle
Hermenefred, murdered her father, and with the aid of Clovis' son
Theuderic.
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The College was founded in 1496, and it originally consisted of
buildings taken over from the nunnery of St Mary and St Radegund,
namely the chapel, and the cloister attached to it.
The nuns' refectory, which became the college hall and the former
lodging of the prioress, which became the Master's Lodge. This set
of buildings remains the core of the college to this day, and this
accounts for its distinctly peaceful and spacious character.
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