How the
province
of the Midland Angles became Christian
under King Peada.
under King Peada.
bede
[604 A.
D.
]
Chap. II. How Augustine admonished the bishops of the Britons on behalf
of Catholic peace, and to that end wrought a heavenly miracle in their
presence; and of the vengeance that pursued them for their contempt.
[_Circ. _ 603 A. D. ]
Chap. III. How St. Augustine made Mellitus and Justus bishops; and of
his death. [604 A. D. ]
Chap. IV. How Laurentius and his bishops admonished the Scots to
observe the unity of the Holy Church, particularly in keeping of
Easter; and how Mellitus went to Rome.
Chap. V. How, after the death of the kings Ethelbert and Sabert, their
successors restored idolatry; for which reason, both Mellitus and
Justus departed out of Britain. [616 A. D. ]
Chap. VI. How Laurentius, being reproved by the Apostle Peter,
converted King Eadbald to Christ; and how the king soon recalled
Mellitus and Justus to preach the Word. [617-618 A. D. ]
Chap. VII. How Bishop Mellitus by prayer quenched a fire in his city.
[619 A. D. ]
Chap. VIII. How Pope Boniface sent the Pall and a letter to Justus,
successor to Mellitus. [624 A. D. ]
Chap. IX. Of the reign of King Edwin, and how Paulinus, coming to
preach the Gospel, first converted his daughter and others to the
mysteries of the faith of Christ. [625-626 A. D. ]
Chap. X. How Pope Boniface, by letter, exhorted the same king to
embrace the faith. [_Circ. _ 625 A. D. ]
Chap. XI. How Pope Boniface advised the king’s consort to use her best
endeavours for his salvation. [_Circ. _ 625 A. D. ]
Chap. XII. How Edwin was persuaded to believe by a vision which he had
once seen when he was in exile. [_Circ. _ 616 A. D. ]
Chap. XIII. Of the Council he held with his chief men concerning their
reception of the faith of Christ, and how the high priest profaned his
own altars. [627 A. D. ]
Chap. XIV. How King Edwin and his nation became Christians; and where
Paulinus baptized them. [627 A. D. ]
Chap. XV. How the province of the East Angles received the faith of
Christ. [627-628 A. D. ]
Chap. XVI. How Paulinus preached in the province of Lindsey; and of the
character of the reign of Edwin. [_Circ. _ 628 A. D. ]
Chap. XVII. How Edwin received letters of exhortation from Pope
Honorius, who also sent the pall to Paulinus. [634 A. D. ]
Chap. XVIII. How Honorius, who succeeded Justus in the bishopric of
Canterbury, received the pall and letters from Pope Honorius. [634
A. D. ]
Chap. XIX. How the aforesaid Honorius first, and afterwards John, wrote
letters to the nation of the Scots, concerning the observance of
Easter, and the Pelagian heresy. [640 A. D. ]
Chap. XX. How Edwin being slain, Paulinus returned into Kent, and had
the bishopric of Rochester conferred upon him. [633 A. D. ]
Book III
Chap. I. How King Edwin’s next successors lost both the faith of their
nation and the kingdom; but the most Christian King Oswald retrieved
both. [633 A. D. ]
Chap. II. How, among innumerable other miracles of healing wrought by
the wood of the cross, which King Oswald, being ready to engage against
the barbarians, erected, a certain man had his injured arm healed. [634
A. D. ]
Chap. III. How the same king Oswald, asking a bishop of the Scottish
nation, had Aidan sent him, and granted him an episcopal see in the
Isle of Lindisfarne. [635 A. D. ]
Chap. IV. When the nation of the Picts received the faith of Christ.
[565 A. D. ]
Chap. V. Of the life of Bishop Aidan. [635 A. D. ]
Chap. VI. Of King Oswald’s wonderful piety and religion. [635-642 A. D. ]
Chap. VII. How the West Saxons received the Word of God by the
preaching of Birinus; and of his successors, Agilbert and Leutherius.
[635-670 A. D. ]
Chap. VIII. How Earconbert, King of Kent, ordered the idols to be
destroyed; and of his daughter Earcongota, and his kinswoman Ethelberg,
virgins consecrated to God. [640 A. D. ]
Chap. IX. How miracles of healing have been frequently wrought in the
place where King Oswald was killed; and how, first, a traveller’s horse
was restored and afterwards a young girl cured of the palsy. [642 A. D. ]
Chap. X. How the dust of that place prevailed against fire. [After 642
A. D. ]
Chap. XI. How a light from Heaven stood all night over his relics, and
how those possessed with devils were healed by them. [679-697 A. D. ]
Chap. XII. How a little boy was cured of a fever at his tomb.
Chap. XIII. How a certain person in Ireland was restored, when at the
point of death, by his relics.
Chap. XIV. How on the death of Paulinus, Ithamar was made bishop of
Rochester in his stead; and of the wonderful humility of King Oswin,
who was cruelly slain by Oswy. [644-651 A. D. ]
Chap. XV. How Bishop Aidan foretold to certain seamen that a storm
would arise, and gave them some holy oil to calm it. [Between 642 and
645 A. D. ]
Chap. XVI. How the same Aidan, by his prayers, saved the royal city
when it was fired by the enemy [Before 651 A. D. ]
Chap. XVII. How a prop of the church on which Bishop Aidan was leaning
when he died, could not be consumed when the rest of the Church was on
fire; and concerning his inward life. [651 A. D. ]
Chap. XVIII. Of the life and death of the religious King Sigbert.
[_Circ. _ 631 A. D. ]
Chap. XIX. How Fursa built a monastery among the East Angles, and of
his visions and sanctity, to which, his flesh remaining uncorrupted
after death bore testimony. [_Circ. _ 633 A. D. ]
Chap. XX. How, when Honorius died, Deusdedit became Archbishop of
Canterbury; and of those who were at that time bishops of the East
Angles, and of the church of Rochester. [653 A. D. ]
Chap. XXI.
How the province of the Midland Angles became Christian
under King Peada. [653 A. D. ]
Chap. XXII. How under King Sigbert, through the preaching of Cedd, the
East Saxons again received the faith, which they had before cast off.
[653 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIII. How Bishop Cedd, having a place for building a monastery
given him by King Ethelwald, consecrated it to the Lord with prayer and
fasting; and concerning his death. [659-664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIV. How when King Penda was slain, the province of the Mercians
received the faith of Christ, and Oswy gave possessions and territories
to God, for building monasteries, as a thank offering for the victory
obtained. [655 A. D. ]
Chap. XXV. How the question arose about the due time of keeping Easter,
with those that came out of Scotland. [664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXVI. How Colman, being worsted, returned home; and Tuda
succeeded him in the bishopric; and of the state of the church under
those teachers. [664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXVII. How Egbert, a holy man of the English nation, led a
monastic life in Ireland. [664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXVIII. How, when Tuda was dead, Wilfrid was ordained, in Gaul,
and Ceadda, among the West Saxons, to be bishops for the province of
the Northumbrians. [664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIX. How the priest Wighard was sent from Britain to Rome, to be
ordained archbishop; of his death there, and of the letters of the
Apostolic Pope giving an account thereof. [667 A. D. ]
Chap. XXX. How the East Saxons, during a pestilence, returned to
idolatry, but were soon brought back from their error by the zeal of
Bishop Jaruman. [665 A. D. ]
Book IV
Chap. I. How when Deusdedit died, Wighard was sent to Rome to receive
the episcopate; but he dying there, Theodore was ordained archbishop,
and sent into Britain with the Abbot Hadrian. [664-669 A. D. ]
Chap. II. How Theodore visited all places; how the Churches of the
English began to be instructed in the study of Holy Scripture, and in
the Catholic truth; and how Putta was made bishop of the Church of
Rochester in the room of Damianus. [669 A. D. ]
Chap. III. How the above-mentioned Ceadda was made Bishop of the
province of Mercians. Of his life, death, and burial. [669 A. D. ]
Chap. IV. How Bishop Colman, having left Britain, built two monasteries
in the country of the Scots; the one for the Scots, the other for the
English whom he had taken along with him. [667 A. D. ]
Chap. V. Of the death of the kings Oswy and Egbert, and of the synod
held at the place Herutford, in which Archbishop Theodore presided.
[670-673 A. D. ]
Chap. VI. How Wynfrid being deposed, Sexwulf received his bishopric,
and Earconwald was made bishop of the East Saxons. [675 A. D. ]
Chap. VII. How it was indicated by a light from heaven where the bodies
of the nuns should be buried in the monastery of Berecingum. [675
A. D. ? ]
Chap. VIII. How a little boy, dying in the same monastery, called upon
a virgin that was to follow him; and how another nun, at the point of
leaving her body, saw some small part of the future glory. [675 A. D. ? ]
Chap. IX. Of the signs which were shown from Heaven when the mother of
that community departed this life. [675 A. D. ? ]
Chap. X. How a blind woman, praying in the burial-place of that
monastery, was restored to her sight. [675 A. D. ? ]
Chap. XI. How Sebbi, king of the same province, ended his life in a
monastery. [694 A. D. ]
Chap. XII. How Haedde succeeded Leutherius in the bishopric of the West
Saxons; how Cuichelm succeeded Putta in the bishopric of the church of
Rochester, and was himself succeeded by Gebmund; and who were then
bishops of the Northumbrians. [673-681 A. D. ]
Chap. XIII. How Bishop Wilfrid converted the province of the South
Saxons to Christ. [681 A. D. ]
Chap. XIV. How a pestilence ceased through the intercession of King
Oswald. [681-686 A. D. ]
Chap. XV. How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae, having slain
Ethelwalch, wasted that Province with cruel slaughter and devastation.
[685 A. D. ]
Chap. XVI. How the Isle of Wight received Christian inhabitants, and
two royal youths of that island were killed immediately after Baptism.
[686 A. D. ]
Chap. XVII. Of the Synod held in the plain of Haethfelth, Archbishop
Theodore being president. [680 A. D. ]
Chap. XVIII. Of John, the precentor of the Apostolic see, who came into
Britain to teach. [680 A. D. ]
Chap. XIX. How Queen Ethelthryth always preserved her virginity, and
her body suffered no corruption in the grave. [660-696 A. D. ]
Chap. XX. A Hymn concerning her.
Chap. XXI. How Bishop Theodore made peace between the kings Egfrid and
Ethelred. [679 A. D. ]
Chap. XXII. How a certain captive’s chains fell off when Masses were
sung for him. [679 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIII. Of the life and death of the Abbess Hilda. [614-680 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIV. That there was in her monastery a brother, on whom the gift
of song was bestowed by Heaven. [680 A. D. ]
Chap. XXV. Of the vision that appeared to a certain man of God before
the monastery of the city Coludi was burned down.
Chap. XXVI. Of the death of the Kings Egfrid and Hlothere. [684-685
A. D. ]
Chap. XXVII. How Cuthbert, a man of God, was made bishop; and how he
lived and taught whilst still in the monastic life. [685 A. D. ]
Chap. XXVIII. How the same St. Cuthbert, living the life of an
Anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry soil, and had a
crop from seed sown by the labour of his hands out of season. [676
A. D. ]
Chap. XXIX. How this bishop foretold that his own death was at hand to
the anchorite Herebert. [687 A. D. ]
Chap. XXX. How his body was found altogether uncorrupted after it had
been buried eleven years; and how his successor in the bishopric
departed this world not long after. [698 A. D. ]
Chap.
Chap. II. How Augustine admonished the bishops of the Britons on behalf
of Catholic peace, and to that end wrought a heavenly miracle in their
presence; and of the vengeance that pursued them for their contempt.
[_Circ. _ 603 A. D. ]
Chap. III. How St. Augustine made Mellitus and Justus bishops; and of
his death. [604 A. D. ]
Chap. IV. How Laurentius and his bishops admonished the Scots to
observe the unity of the Holy Church, particularly in keeping of
Easter; and how Mellitus went to Rome.
Chap. V. How, after the death of the kings Ethelbert and Sabert, their
successors restored idolatry; for which reason, both Mellitus and
Justus departed out of Britain. [616 A. D. ]
Chap. VI. How Laurentius, being reproved by the Apostle Peter,
converted King Eadbald to Christ; and how the king soon recalled
Mellitus and Justus to preach the Word. [617-618 A. D. ]
Chap. VII. How Bishop Mellitus by prayer quenched a fire in his city.
[619 A. D. ]
Chap. VIII. How Pope Boniface sent the Pall and a letter to Justus,
successor to Mellitus. [624 A. D. ]
Chap. IX. Of the reign of King Edwin, and how Paulinus, coming to
preach the Gospel, first converted his daughter and others to the
mysteries of the faith of Christ. [625-626 A. D. ]
Chap. X. How Pope Boniface, by letter, exhorted the same king to
embrace the faith. [_Circ. _ 625 A. D. ]
Chap. XI. How Pope Boniface advised the king’s consort to use her best
endeavours for his salvation. [_Circ. _ 625 A. D. ]
Chap. XII. How Edwin was persuaded to believe by a vision which he had
once seen when he was in exile. [_Circ. _ 616 A. D. ]
Chap. XIII. Of the Council he held with his chief men concerning their
reception of the faith of Christ, and how the high priest profaned his
own altars. [627 A. D. ]
Chap. XIV. How King Edwin and his nation became Christians; and where
Paulinus baptized them. [627 A. D. ]
Chap. XV. How the province of the East Angles received the faith of
Christ. [627-628 A. D. ]
Chap. XVI. How Paulinus preached in the province of Lindsey; and of the
character of the reign of Edwin. [_Circ. _ 628 A. D. ]
Chap. XVII. How Edwin received letters of exhortation from Pope
Honorius, who also sent the pall to Paulinus. [634 A. D. ]
Chap. XVIII. How Honorius, who succeeded Justus in the bishopric of
Canterbury, received the pall and letters from Pope Honorius. [634
A. D. ]
Chap. XIX. How the aforesaid Honorius first, and afterwards John, wrote
letters to the nation of the Scots, concerning the observance of
Easter, and the Pelagian heresy. [640 A. D. ]
Chap. XX. How Edwin being slain, Paulinus returned into Kent, and had
the bishopric of Rochester conferred upon him. [633 A. D. ]
Book III
Chap. I. How King Edwin’s next successors lost both the faith of their
nation and the kingdom; but the most Christian King Oswald retrieved
both. [633 A. D. ]
Chap. II. How, among innumerable other miracles of healing wrought by
the wood of the cross, which King Oswald, being ready to engage against
the barbarians, erected, a certain man had his injured arm healed. [634
A. D. ]
Chap. III. How the same king Oswald, asking a bishop of the Scottish
nation, had Aidan sent him, and granted him an episcopal see in the
Isle of Lindisfarne. [635 A. D. ]
Chap. IV. When the nation of the Picts received the faith of Christ.
[565 A. D. ]
Chap. V. Of the life of Bishop Aidan. [635 A. D. ]
Chap. VI. Of King Oswald’s wonderful piety and religion. [635-642 A. D. ]
Chap. VII. How the West Saxons received the Word of God by the
preaching of Birinus; and of his successors, Agilbert and Leutherius.
[635-670 A. D. ]
Chap. VIII. How Earconbert, King of Kent, ordered the idols to be
destroyed; and of his daughter Earcongota, and his kinswoman Ethelberg,
virgins consecrated to God. [640 A. D. ]
Chap. IX. How miracles of healing have been frequently wrought in the
place where King Oswald was killed; and how, first, a traveller’s horse
was restored and afterwards a young girl cured of the palsy. [642 A. D. ]
Chap. X. How the dust of that place prevailed against fire. [After 642
A. D. ]
Chap. XI. How a light from Heaven stood all night over his relics, and
how those possessed with devils were healed by them. [679-697 A. D. ]
Chap. XII. How a little boy was cured of a fever at his tomb.
Chap. XIII. How a certain person in Ireland was restored, when at the
point of death, by his relics.
Chap. XIV. How on the death of Paulinus, Ithamar was made bishop of
Rochester in his stead; and of the wonderful humility of King Oswin,
who was cruelly slain by Oswy. [644-651 A. D. ]
Chap. XV. How Bishop Aidan foretold to certain seamen that a storm
would arise, and gave them some holy oil to calm it. [Between 642 and
645 A. D. ]
Chap. XVI. How the same Aidan, by his prayers, saved the royal city
when it was fired by the enemy [Before 651 A. D. ]
Chap. XVII. How a prop of the church on which Bishop Aidan was leaning
when he died, could not be consumed when the rest of the Church was on
fire; and concerning his inward life. [651 A. D. ]
Chap. XVIII. Of the life and death of the religious King Sigbert.
[_Circ. _ 631 A. D. ]
Chap. XIX. How Fursa built a monastery among the East Angles, and of
his visions and sanctity, to which, his flesh remaining uncorrupted
after death bore testimony. [_Circ. _ 633 A. D. ]
Chap. XX. How, when Honorius died, Deusdedit became Archbishop of
Canterbury; and of those who were at that time bishops of the East
Angles, and of the church of Rochester. [653 A. D. ]
Chap. XXI.
How the province of the Midland Angles became Christian
under King Peada. [653 A. D. ]
Chap. XXII. How under King Sigbert, through the preaching of Cedd, the
East Saxons again received the faith, which they had before cast off.
[653 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIII. How Bishop Cedd, having a place for building a monastery
given him by King Ethelwald, consecrated it to the Lord with prayer and
fasting; and concerning his death. [659-664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIV. How when King Penda was slain, the province of the Mercians
received the faith of Christ, and Oswy gave possessions and territories
to God, for building monasteries, as a thank offering for the victory
obtained. [655 A. D. ]
Chap. XXV. How the question arose about the due time of keeping Easter,
with those that came out of Scotland. [664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXVI. How Colman, being worsted, returned home; and Tuda
succeeded him in the bishopric; and of the state of the church under
those teachers. [664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXVII. How Egbert, a holy man of the English nation, led a
monastic life in Ireland. [664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXVIII. How, when Tuda was dead, Wilfrid was ordained, in Gaul,
and Ceadda, among the West Saxons, to be bishops for the province of
the Northumbrians. [664 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIX. How the priest Wighard was sent from Britain to Rome, to be
ordained archbishop; of his death there, and of the letters of the
Apostolic Pope giving an account thereof. [667 A. D. ]
Chap. XXX. How the East Saxons, during a pestilence, returned to
idolatry, but were soon brought back from their error by the zeal of
Bishop Jaruman. [665 A. D. ]
Book IV
Chap. I. How when Deusdedit died, Wighard was sent to Rome to receive
the episcopate; but he dying there, Theodore was ordained archbishop,
and sent into Britain with the Abbot Hadrian. [664-669 A. D. ]
Chap. II. How Theodore visited all places; how the Churches of the
English began to be instructed in the study of Holy Scripture, and in
the Catholic truth; and how Putta was made bishop of the Church of
Rochester in the room of Damianus. [669 A. D. ]
Chap. III. How the above-mentioned Ceadda was made Bishop of the
province of Mercians. Of his life, death, and burial. [669 A. D. ]
Chap. IV. How Bishop Colman, having left Britain, built two monasteries
in the country of the Scots; the one for the Scots, the other for the
English whom he had taken along with him. [667 A. D. ]
Chap. V. Of the death of the kings Oswy and Egbert, and of the synod
held at the place Herutford, in which Archbishop Theodore presided.
[670-673 A. D. ]
Chap. VI. How Wynfrid being deposed, Sexwulf received his bishopric,
and Earconwald was made bishop of the East Saxons. [675 A. D. ]
Chap. VII. How it was indicated by a light from heaven where the bodies
of the nuns should be buried in the monastery of Berecingum. [675
A. D. ? ]
Chap. VIII. How a little boy, dying in the same monastery, called upon
a virgin that was to follow him; and how another nun, at the point of
leaving her body, saw some small part of the future glory. [675 A. D. ? ]
Chap. IX. Of the signs which were shown from Heaven when the mother of
that community departed this life. [675 A. D. ? ]
Chap. X. How a blind woman, praying in the burial-place of that
monastery, was restored to her sight. [675 A. D. ? ]
Chap. XI. How Sebbi, king of the same province, ended his life in a
monastery. [694 A. D. ]
Chap. XII. How Haedde succeeded Leutherius in the bishopric of the West
Saxons; how Cuichelm succeeded Putta in the bishopric of the church of
Rochester, and was himself succeeded by Gebmund; and who were then
bishops of the Northumbrians. [673-681 A. D. ]
Chap. XIII. How Bishop Wilfrid converted the province of the South
Saxons to Christ. [681 A. D. ]
Chap. XIV. How a pestilence ceased through the intercession of King
Oswald. [681-686 A. D. ]
Chap. XV. How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae, having slain
Ethelwalch, wasted that Province with cruel slaughter and devastation.
[685 A. D. ]
Chap. XVI. How the Isle of Wight received Christian inhabitants, and
two royal youths of that island were killed immediately after Baptism.
[686 A. D. ]
Chap. XVII. Of the Synod held in the plain of Haethfelth, Archbishop
Theodore being president. [680 A. D. ]
Chap. XVIII. Of John, the precentor of the Apostolic see, who came into
Britain to teach. [680 A. D. ]
Chap. XIX. How Queen Ethelthryth always preserved her virginity, and
her body suffered no corruption in the grave. [660-696 A. D. ]
Chap. XX. A Hymn concerning her.
Chap. XXI. How Bishop Theodore made peace between the kings Egfrid and
Ethelred. [679 A. D. ]
Chap. XXII. How a certain captive’s chains fell off when Masses were
sung for him. [679 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIII. Of the life and death of the Abbess Hilda. [614-680 A. D. ]
Chap. XXIV. That there was in her monastery a brother, on whom the gift
of song was bestowed by Heaven. [680 A. D. ]
Chap. XXV. Of the vision that appeared to a certain man of God before
the monastery of the city Coludi was burned down.
Chap. XXVI. Of the death of the Kings Egfrid and Hlothere. [684-685
A. D. ]
Chap. XXVII. How Cuthbert, a man of God, was made bishop; and how he
lived and taught whilst still in the monastic life. [685 A. D. ]
Chap. XXVIII. How the same St. Cuthbert, living the life of an
Anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry soil, and had a
crop from seed sown by the labour of his hands out of season. [676
A. D. ]
Chap. XXIX. How this bishop foretold that his own death was at hand to
the anchorite Herebert. [687 A. D. ]
Chap. XXX. How his body was found altogether uncorrupted after it had
been buried eleven years; and how his successor in the bishopric
departed this world not long after. [698 A. D. ]
Chap.
