Chapter

 1 PREF   |                   PREFACE~To the holy and most blessed Father
 2 PREF   |       pious recollection of that holy father lift up your souls
 3 PREF   |         own. For you, also, most holy prelate, remember to have
 4 PREF   |        in the white book of your holy congregation And may your
 5 I      |          Why," said he, "do you, holy Cuthbert, priest and prelate !
 6 IV     |        behold the light of God's holy angels, who never sleep.
 7 IV     |      company, the spirit of some holy man, who now, for ever blessed,
 8 IV     |     think it must have been some holy bishop, or some favoured
 9 VI     |        TO A MONASTERY, BOISIL, A HOLY MAN, BORE TESTIMONY TO HIM
10 VI     |       Lindisfarne contained many holy men, by whose teaching and
11 IX     |   preaching, and also by his own holy conduct.~
12 X      | ENCOURAGED BY CUTHBERT~WHEN this holy man was thus acquiring renown
13 XI     |       and hunger, the day of the holy Epiphany was at hand, and
14 XIV    |        imitated the reverend and holy father Saint Benedict, who
15 XV     |        she may be buried in this holy place." He was ashamed to
16 XV     |       her right mind. Whilst the holy man was going to find out
17 XV     |        to meet the coming of the holy man. The woman, freed from
18 XVII   |      sung by the Psalmist: " The holy shall walk from virtue to
19 XIX    |        most grievously. Christ's holy servant, as he himself afterwards
20 XIX    |        the rock, he followed the holy St. Benedict, who did almost
21 XIX    |        imitated the reverend and holy father St. Antony, who by
22 XXI    |       Ought to be shown to God's holy saints.~
23 XXII   |        of Boisil, that this, our holy servant of Christ, should
24 XXIII  |       with much love towards the holy man of God. About this time,
25 XXIII  |       she turned her mind to the holy and tranquil life of the
26 XXIV   |      same Elfled, who was a most holy virgin, and mother of the
27 XXIV   |        him by the majesty of the Holy One, that he would tell
28 XXIV   |        God's chosen servant, the holy King Egfrid, he was unanimously
29 XXIV   |     island, attended by the most holy Bishop Trumwine, and by
30 XXV    |         S ATTENDANTS BY MEANS OF HOLY WATER ~WHEN Cuthbert, the
31 XXV    |      saying, " I thank God, most holy father, that you have thought
32 XXV    |        God, then, giving him the holy water, said, " Go and give
33 XXVII  |          to me on the day of the Holy Nativity, and asked me to
34 XXVIII |       the queen herself with his holy conversation. Now there
35 XXVIII |     perhaps by a dispensation of holy piety, in order that the
36 XXIX   |         THE WIFE OF AN EARL WITH HOLY WATER~WHEN he was one day
37 XXIX   |      that they might receive the Holy Spirit, he came to the mansion
38 XXIX   | extraordinary circumstance ! the holy water had scarcely touched
39 XXX    |     village, in which were a few holy women, who had fled from
40 XXX    |          the wretched woman with holy oil. From that time she
41 XXXII  |       DEATH ON A JOURNEY~As this holy shepherd of Christ's flock
42 XXXII  |        minister the grace of the Holy Spirit by imposition of
43 XXXII  |      receive a blessing from the holy man. When he was brought
44 XXXIII |        were wholly deserted. The holy father Cuthbert, therefore,
45 XXXIV  |         request of the noble and holy virgin, the Abbess Elfleda,
46 XXXIV  |      said, " I saw the soul of a holy man carried up to heaven
47 XXXIV  |       then plain to all that the holy man possessed in his mind
48 XXXVI  |       have an interview with the holy father, and to lament to
49 XXXVII |          the eastern side of the holy cross, which I have erected
50 XXXVII |        island to minister to the holy father. I warmed some water
51 XXXVII |       told the brethren that the holy father wished to be buried
52 XXXVIII|    standing proof how strong the holy man was in spirit, though
53 XXXVIII|      followed the example of the holy and reverend father and
54 XL     |         of Lindisfarne, that the holy man was dead; for they had
55 XL     |          virtues, learned in the Holy Scripture, and in particular
56 XL     |      placed in the church of the holy Apostle Peter, in a stone
57 XLI    |         before the relics of the holy saints which are there.
58 XLI    |          he was advised; but the holy saints, to show how high
59 XLI    |    spirit that by the aid of the holy father Cuthbert he might
60 XLI    |      accompany his father to the holy places, and give thanks
61 XLII   |          show to what glory this holy man was exalted after death,
62 XLII   |         they communicated to the holy Bishop Eadbert about the
63 XLIV   |       priest of the reverend and holy Wilbrord Clement, bishop
64 XLIV   |     Sunday,) "to the body of the holy man of God, to pray: I hope
65 XLIV   |         knees at the tomb of the holy father, and, with his head
66 XLV    |        incorruptible body of the holy man; for he believed that
67 XLV    | perceived that the virtue of the holy man's relics was be ginning
68 XLVI   |        means of the ruins of the holy oratory, in which the venerable
69 XLVI   |       with the faith of the most holy father Felgeld; through
70 XLVI   |       persons begged of Christ's holy servant Felgeld to give
71 XLVI   |      himself by the aid of those holy men whose house he dwelt
72 XLVI   |     house he dwelt in, and whose holy life he sought to imitate.