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Chapter
1 XIX | birds, and said to them, " \0lhy do you touch that which
2 Bibl | New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910), 286-349 ~See also ~Battiscombe,
3 Bibl | St. Cuthbert, (Cambridge: 1940) ~Crux, Joan Carroll, The
4 Bibl | of St. Cuthbert, (Oxford: 1956) ~Colgrave. B. ed., Two
5 Bibl | Farmer (London: Penguin, 1965, rev. 1988) - inlcudes Bede:
6 Bibl | Beati, (Rockford IL: Tan, 1977) ~Webb. J.F., trans., The
7 Bibl | London: Penguin, 1965, rev. 1988) - inlcudes Bede: Life of
8 XLVI | WAS CURED OF A SWELLING 1N THE FACE BY MEANS OF THE
9 XIV | of the prophet, [Is. 43:2] " When thou walkest through
10 XLII | them to execute this on the 20th of April, which was the
11 Bibl | York: E.P. Dutton, 1910), 286-349 ~See also ~Battiscombe,
12 Bibl | E.P. Dutton, 1910), 286-349 ~See also ~Battiscombe,
13 XIV | saying of the prophet, [Is. 43:2] " When thou walkest through
14 Bibl | Giles, Everyman's Library 479,(London: J.M. Dent; New
15 XL | service to be singing the 59th Psalm, which begins, ' O
16 XLVI | he should be obliged to abandon the solitary life and return
17 Bibl | Wilfrid: Bede: Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow (
18 XI | and refresh ourselves, and abide here without fear, for after
19 XXIV | know," she said, " that you abound in the Spirit of prophecy,
20 XXIV | and spacious sea, how it aboundeth in islands. It is easy for
21 XXX | of whom, a sister of the above-mentioned priest, Ethelwald, was confined
22 XVIII | for any other purpose of absolute necessity.~
23 VI | intoxicate; but was not able to abstain equally from food, lest
24 VI | Samson of old, he carefully abstained from every drink which could
25 XLII | devotion, accompanied with abstinence, prayer, and tears. Here,
26 XX | But let no one think it absurd to learn virtue from birds;
27 XXI | or my necessities." They accepted his invitation; and when
28 XLIV | in all his limbs such an accession of strength from the incorruptible
29 XVI | his own bed, nor had any accommodation from the brethren for reposing
30 XLI | see the son sound in mind accompany his father to the holy places,
31 XVII | of the abbot and brethren accompanying him, to retire to the secrecy
32 XII | us, which we cannot well accomplish without eating. " The man
33 PREF | man, nor without the most accurate examination of credible
34 PREF | your congregation, and was accurately weighed and examined in
35 XIII | their fickleness of mind, acknowledging their conviction that the
36 X | WHEN this holy man was thus acquiring renown by his virtues and
37 | across
38 XX | when a dumb bird that had acted so insolently, hastened
39 VII | relating to the fathers the acts of their predecessors, as
40 XXI | little room in his monastery, adapted to his daily necessities:
41 XI | not in idleness or sloth, addressed them with cheerful and soothing
42 XXXII | got together from all the adjoining villages, that he might
43 XXIV | But he, shuddering at the adjuration, and yet not being willing
44 XXIV | sent for the man of God, adjuring him in the name of our Lord
45 XXXI | Christ's servant, and to admire the virtues of his true
46 XXVII | happen to us; but I was only admonished, as it were instinctively,
47 XXVI | other particulars which adorn the life of a pontiff. The
48 XXVI | venerable man of God, Cuthbert, adorned the office of bishop, which
49 XXV | of Lindisfarne, which he adorns by his good qualities. He
50 XXII | both in purity of mind and advancement in prophetic grace. Among
51 XXXVII | weakness, and to show his adversaries how weak they were against
52 XXII | which they suffered, or the adversities common to mortals, with
53 XXII | uncertainty of prosperity and adversity in this life: he had learnt
54 XXIV | spider's web,' and Solomon advises, that if a man shall live
55 XXXIII | and saw a woman standing afar off, one of whose sons had
56 XXII | but were never able to affect my body with injury, or
57 XXIV | Egfrid himself with the affection of a sister."-"But," said
58 I | pacifying the crying child with affectionate caresses, immediately abandoned
59 V | than to earthly and carnal affections, and who said that the authority
60 XXV | believe that your arrival will afford us the greatest profit both
61 XLVI | another, an opening was afforded to the weather. The venerable
62 XLVI | This he ascribed to the agency of the Almighty Grace, which
63 I | sports: and because he was agile by nature, and of a quick
64 XXXVII | that such labour would be agreeable and easy to us, the man
65 XLVI | The venerable man, whose aim was rather the splendour
66 XVII | this solitude, he then, aiming at higher things, sought
67 VII | years after, it pleased King Alfred, for the redemption of his
68 XXXII | rejoicing, both he and they alike.~
69 PREF | have, as far as God has allowed me, done my best to perform. ~
70 XIX | license from God, do what He allows you; but if not, get you
71 XV | wife, who was devoted to almsgiving and other fruits of virtue,
72 | along
73 XLI | reason, and shouted and cried aloud, and tried to tear in pieces
74 PREF | found which required to be altered, but every thing which I
75 XLV | palpitation in his feet alternately, so that the attendants,
76 IX | something from him, and amend their lives. Now Cuthbert
77 PREF | their suggestion, carefully amended, and thus every scruple
78 IX | remedies, as if by charms or amulets, or any other mysteries
79 I | having laid fast hold of the anachoretic life, he rejoiced to sit
80 XVI | of our Church among our ancestors, none of whom said that
81 XLVI | gradually aspired to the rank of anchoritish perfection. The walls of
82 XIV | venerable priest Marcellinus of Ancona, who, when his native town
83 XXXVII | UNDERWENT IN HIS SICKNESS, ANDS HIS ORDERS CONCERNING HIS
84 XL | demonstration of his threatening anger should again be protected
85 XLII | of April, which was the anniversary of the day of his burial.
86 XXII | life, felt horrified at the announcement. ~
87 XX | and did not dare to give annoyance to any one. But let no one
88 XXX | to cure her, he in pity anointed the wretched woman with
89 XXX | IN THE HEAD AND SIDE BY ANOINTING HER WITH OIL~BUT the venerable
90 XX | Solomon says, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider
91 XIX | reverend and holy father St. Antony, who by his word alone drove
92 XXXVII | depart to the Lord.' ~"I was anxious about returning to him on
93 | anywhere
94 XXII | me by various trials of apparitions, and to exterminate me from
95 II | incredible that an angel should appear on horseback, let him read
96 XVI | they are content with that appearance which the natural wool of
97 VIII | died away to all outward appearances, struck into his inwards,
98 XXV | such great pain that he appears more like a man dying than
99 XIV | wicked one: and to them is applicable the saying of the prophet, [
100 II | wheaten flour in milk, and apply the poultice warm to the
101 XXVIII | that the time of my death approaches, and the time of leaving
102 XVI | pope Gregory showed that he approved this mode of life, when
103 XLII | execute this on the 20th of April, which was the anniversary
104 II | formerly deigned to send his archangel Raphael to restore the eyesight
105 XXIV | after, in a full synod, Archbishop Theodore of blessed memory
106 PREF | lift up your souls with ardour in aspiration for the heavenly
107 VI | he was of a robust frame arid of unimpaired strength,
108 XXVIII | had sought from the Lord. "Arise, my brother," says he, "
109 | around
110 PREF | write. But when my work was arranged, but still kept back from
111 XV | moreover, that, before we arrive, she will be freed, and
112 IX | mysteries of the magical art, they were able to avert
113 XXIII | had in her possession some article that had belonged to him; "
114 PREF | to writing what I clearly ascertained to be the truth, and to
115 XLVI | passed in that place. This he ascribed to the agency of the Almighty
116 XV | this holy place." He was ashamed to say that she was out
117 X | came and fell at his feet, asking his pardon, for he did not
118 XVI | resolute, and, amid the asperities which he encountered, he
119 PREF | your souls with ardour in aspiration for the heavenly kingdom,
120 XLVI | the monks, he gradually aspired to the rank of anchoritish
121 XXVIII | wholesome exhortations in aspiring after heavenly things. When
122 XXVII | that if any tribulation assail you, it may find you prepared. ' ~
123 XIV | removed all danger of the fire assailing the house, into which the
124 XXVII | greater part of that noble assembly of spiritual fathers and
125 XXXVII | with many entreaties, and asserted that such labour would be
126 XLVI | report of the priest, and asserting that his face was ever afterwards
127 XIX | alone drove away the wild asses from the garden which he
128 XXXIII | went round his parish, most assiduously ministering the word of
129 VIII | from your disease, and I assure you it will give you no
130 XI | three days there will most assuredly be a calm, both of the heavens
131 XXXVII | they have thus obtained an asylum, inasmuch as I have enjoyed
132 XXVII | their territories with most atrocious cruelty, the man of God,
133 I | at his age, rejoiced to attach himself to the company of
134 XLV | that the palsy had first attacked him. This he did at the
135 XXII | servant of Christ, should attain to the office of a bishop;
136 XVIII | withdrawn his mind from attending to the care of his person,
137 XIII | you should listen with attentive heart and with watchful
138 XLVI | reason why it may not be attributed to either of the two, in
139 XXXVIII| reverend father and bishop, Aurelius Augustine, who, when weighed
140 PREF | inserted the names of these my authors, to establish the truth
141 IX | magical art, they were able to avert a stroke inflicted upon
142 XLV | the invalid himself was awakened by the sound and sat up.
143 XXIV | Scottish islands. But she was aware that Egfrid proposed to
144 Bibl | Oxford: 1956) ~Colgrave. B. ed., Two Lives of St. Cuthbert, (
145 I | honour, " Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou
146 XI | PREVENTED FROM SAILING BY BAD WEATHER, HE PREDICTED THAT
147 VII | must now, I think, be just baked. " When he returned, the
148 XXV | a servant whose name was Baldhelm, who is still alive and
149 XXVII | But, in the middle of the banquet, I suddenly said to them, '
150 XXIX | his hand on all the lately baptized, that they might receive
151 XXX | monastery through fear of the barbarian army, and had there obtained
152 Bibl | 1910), 286-349 ~See also ~Battiscombe, C.F. ed., The Relics of
153 XXIV | killed the year afterwards in battle with the Picts, and was
154 XXXVII | I have fought my humble battles for the Lord, where? too,
155 XX | arrived, they brought in their beaks a large piece of hog's lard,
156 XLV | fore it is profitable to bear in mind that this change
157 XXXII | there appeared some women bearing on a bed a young man, wasted
158 Bibl | Various Catholic Saints and Beati, (Rockford IL: Tan, 1977) ~
159 II | sat, was of incomparable beauty. He drew near to Cuthbert,
160 XXIX | patient. He entered the bedroom in which she lay, as if
161 XXXI | they were sitting by the bedside, one of them mentioned that
162 XLV | beginning of the night, when bedtime was drawing near. A deep
163 XXXV | should bring him wine, or beer. " Give me water," said
164 | begin
165 XL | singing the 59th Psalm, which begins, ' O Lord, thou hast rejected
166 XVI | something with his hands, thus beguiling his sleepiness by labour;
167 IV | who now, for ever blessed, beholds the glory of the heavenly
168 XXIII | that when the faith of believers had been strengthened, all
169 VIII | tongue." Cuthbert, implicitly believing what he heard, asked him
170 XLV | As soon as the monastery bell struck the hour of midnight
171 XXXIX | do not despise others who belong to the faith and come to
172 XXIII | possession some article that had belonged to him; "for I know, and
173 XXXIV | mention, he entered the estate belonging to her monastery, both to
174 XIX | further injury to that which belongs to another." He had no sooner
175 I | several of them began to bend their bodies into various
176 XXXVII | We thanked him on our bended knees for this permission,
177 XX | in a pitiable manner, and bending its head down before his
178 XLI | refused to bestow on him the benefit desired. The mad boy, therefore,
179 VII | meekest way, the spiritual benefits which the love of God had
180 XXIII | Heaven so dealt forth its benevolence from on high, that when
181 II | were in any danger, his benevolent piety sent forth prayers
182 XXXIX | valedictory salutation he would bequeath to the brethren, he began
183 XLVI | he was living alone, and bestowed less care on his person,
184 XXXII | usual weapon, prayer, and bestowing his blessing, expelled the
185 XXXII | retire to a distance. He then betook himself to his usual weapon,
186 | between
187 XXXIX | humility, and told me to beware of those persons who strove
188 Bibl | Bibliography ~Bede, Life and Miracles
189 XX | after humility, when a dumb bird that had acted so insolently,
190 XVI | Britain, who asked him how bishops ought to converse with their
191 I | the ground, and shed tears bitterly. The rest run up to console
192 XXIII | unworthiness would have been to blame. Whereof, as I said before,
193 II | restrained the insults of the blasphemers, saying, "What are you doing,
194 XL | Church was assailed by such a blast of temptation, that several
195 XIV | caught fire and began to blaze most dreadfully. For the
196 XLVI | afterwards free from the blemish during the many years that
197 XXVIII | consecrate priests, but also to bless the queen herself with his
198 XLI | also, which before were bloodshot and staring hideously, he
199 XIV | changed, and beginning to blow from the west, removed all
200 XIII | suffused with ingenuous blushes, and, falling on their knees
201 II | place intended. The rustics blushing for their infidelity, both
202 I | other bodily exercise, he boasted that he could surpass all
203 II | monastery, launched some boats into the river, and tried
204 XXXVII | last five days. ' I was not bold enough to ask what kinds
205 XXIV | face. she with feminine boldness adjured him by the majesty
206 XXVIII | of God, Cuthbert, in the bond of spiritual friendship,
207 XXVII | shepherds when the Lord was born, and told them that it was
208 VII | humbly dried them in his bosom; after which he entreated
209 XVII | all sides by the deep and boundless ocean. No one, before God'
210 XXXII | in the road, and each cut branches from the trees in the neighbouring
211 XXV | being dead, he seems only to breathe a little through his mouth
212 X | before him on the sand, breathed upon his feet, and wiped
213 Bibl | and the Voyage of St. Brendan.~ ~
214 XXXIX | LAST INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BRETIIREN; AND HOW, WHEN HE HAD RECEIVED
215 XVII | not of hewn stones or of brick and mortar, but of rough
216 XV | of God with joy, held the bridle of his horse, and, having
217 XI | which He formerly made so bright with his heavenly majesty.
218 XXIII | of her princely birth the brighter excellence of exalted virtue,
219 XIII | immediately that wicked enemy, bringing supernatural fire, set light
220 VII | placed therein certain of his brother-monks, among whom was Cuthbert,
221 XXII | things more frequently to the brotherhood, lest they should wonder
222 XXXIV | down, and died from the bruise, at the same time that the
223 XL | heart, and bound up their bruises, so that it was then given
224 XXIV | subject myself to so great a burden, would, I believe, restore
225 XIV | fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the fire
226 XIV | apparition of a fire like a burning kitchen, which the old enemy
227 I | weeping. They ask him why he burst out crying so unexpectedly.
228 XXIV | his feet and adjured him, bv the terrible and sacred
229 XXIX | believe," said he, " that by-and-by she will either, by the
230 VI | this single remark to the bystanders: " Behold a servant of the
231 XLII | amid the starry sphere," &c. ~When the bishop had said
232 Bibl | See also ~Battiscombe, C.F. ed., The Relics of St. Cuthbert, (
233 XXVII | asked me to go out of my cabin and solemnize with them
234 XXXVI | it immediately into the caldron, and boil and eat it, that
235 XVIII | discovered to have contracted a callosity on the junction of his feet
236 Bibl | Lives of St. Cuthbert, (Cambridge: 1940) ~Crux, Joan Carroll,
237 XL | them instantly lighted two candles, and, holding one in each
238 XXXVII | monastery of Lindisfarne, in the capacity of abbot. ~"He was brought
239 XXII | that mind would be easily captivated which was deprived of brotherly
240 XV | body, and are even taken captive in spirit by the devil."
241 XLVI | composed of planks somewhat careless]y put together, had become
242 I | child with affectionate caresses, immediately abandoned his
243 Bibl | Cambridge: 1940) ~Crux, Joan Carroll, The Incorruptibles: A Study
244 XLV | the morning he went to the cathedral, and in the sight of all
245 XXVII | you, brethren, let us act cautiously and watchfully, lest, perchance,
246 XXXIV | he, "to-morrow, when I am celebrating mass." On hearing these
247 XL | assembled to perform the usual ceremonies of the evening service,
248 XLII | prepared. But I know of a certainty that the place which has
249 PREF | corrected, if false, or certified to be true. Whilst, with
250 VIII | to others. But our worthy champion of Christ did not by reason
251 IX | idolatrous remedies, as if by charms or amulets, or any other
252 XXXVI | comprehension, whereby, amid the chastening of their Maker, they were
253 I | beast to speak when He would check the folly of the prophet:
254 II | the power of the winds was checked, the vessels, with their
255 XXXIII | tears trickling down her cheek bore witness to her past
256 XV | and the tears ran down his cheeks, for he was afraid lest
257 XIV | said he; " be of good cheer; this devouring flame will
258 I | of truth from his early childhood; for even to the eighth
259 I | abundantly laid aside all those childish things. ~And indeed Divine
260 I | you to be playing among children, when the Lord has appointed
261 IV | splendour by that large angelic choir. " As the man of God said
262 XI | arrived there the day after Christmas-day, hoping, because the weather
263 XLVI | immediately healed, and the cicatrice disappeared. This I was
264 XXVII | But the next day, when the citizens were leading him to see
265 II | jest, whether he had no civilities to show to such a guest. "
266 I | have stated, in mirth and clamour; and, as was natural at
267 XLVI | mansion, having taken hay, or clay, or whatever he could get,
268 XXXVII | God Almighty, wishing to cleanse his servant from every stain
269 V | was shown to him by the clearest evidence, that to those
270 PREF | commit to writing what I clearly ascertained to be the truth,
271 PREF | forget to entreat the Divine clemency in favour of my littleness,
272 XLIV | reverend and holy Wilbrord Clement, bishop of the Fresons,
273 IX | to flock together when a clerk or priest entered a village,
274 II | on horseback approaching, clothed in white garments, and honourable
275 XI | snow, and the heaven with clouds; the currents of both winds
276 XLII | and to put them in a small coffer, on the same spot, above
277 Bibl | Cuthbert, (Oxford: 1956) ~Colgrave. B. ed., Two Lives of St.
278 I | tongue silent from human colloquy. But that he should be able
279 X | place called the city of Coludi, remarkable both for piety
280 VIII | like the sea when a storm comes on, the above-named Abbot
281 XXXIII | ministering the word of God, and comforting those few who were left.
282 XVI | praying over them, or even by commanding or exorcising the devils
283 PREF | removed, I have taken care to commit to writing what I clearly
284 VIII | anchorite, he would not communicate this prophecy to any one,
285 XLII | the people. This wish they communicated to the holy Bishop Eadbert
286 XVIII | and prayer, rarely having communication with any one without, and
287 XXXIX | mode of life. But have no communion with those who err from
288 XXIII | care and piety to several companies of Christ's handmaids, and
289 XLVI | ever with its mercy and compassion, AMEN. ~
290 XVI | his outward vexations were compensated for by the internal consolations
291 VIII | their seven days' study was completed, Boisil died of the above-named
292 XLVI | aforesaid oratory, being composed of planks somewhat careless]
293 XXXVI | disobedience and dullness of comprehension, whereby, amid the chastening
294 XVI | never could come to the conclusion thereof without a plentiful
295 XXXIX | unanimous in council. Let concord be mutual between you and
296 XLIV | out the assistance of the conductor who had led him, or the
297 II | the vessels, with their conductors rejoicing, were cast upon
298 PREF | also may not be slow to confer on me the reward of your
299 VII | which the love of God had conferred upon himself. And this he
300 XXII | fame of his virtues, to confess the errors which they had
301 XVI | shed tears over those who confessed their sins, pitying their
302 IX | forgiveness by an honest confession. He was mostly accustomed
303 XXIII | him; "for I know, and am confident," said she, "that I should
304 XIX | cheerful and affable manner, to confirm the faith of his hearers
305 XLVI | told me the same thing, confirming the report of the priest,
306 VI | entered the monastery, he conformed himself to the rules of
307 XLVI | to either of the two, in conjunction with the faith of the most
308 XIV | they enable themselves to conquer the desires of the flesh,
309 XIV | those who are, like me, conscious of our own weakness and
310 XXXIV | the bishop, at that time consecrating the church, and in amazement,
311 XXXVII | one to wait upon him. He consented, and kept some of us with
312 XXXIV | therein; for there was there a considerable number of monks. When they
313 XIV | against the force of fire, considering that by their daily piety
314 XL | the Divine mercy. He who considers the sequel also of the above-named
315 II | river Tyne, at that time consisting of monks, but now changed,
316 XVI | compensated for by the internal consolations of the Holv Spirit. ~But
317 XXXIV | confirmed all with such consolatory admonitions as should be
318 XLV | attendant, having first consulted the abbot, brought the shoes
319 VI | the Church of Lindisfarne contained many holy men, by whose
320 VIII | said Boisil. "I have a copy containing seven quarto sheets: we
321 XVI | by servants of the Lord, contains both, and all are monks.
322 XXXIX | was by no means worthy of contempt. ' ~" These words, and such
323 I | to see if any remained to contend with him for victory. For
324 XVII | when he had for some time contended with the invisible adversary
325 XVI | valuable colour, but they are content with that appearance which
326 XXVII | voice, " Now, then, the contest is decided ! " Tbe presbyter,
327 I | over them in their boyish contests, and frequently, when the
328 XXVIII | piety, in order that the continual pain of a long sickness
329 XXII | by the true faith, should continue its course, would, by the
330 XL | He healed those who were contrite in heart, and bound up their
331 XLVI | Ethelwald entered and saw these contrivances, he begged the brethren
332 XXXVII | tomb yourselves, and to control the visits of all other
333 VII | that time he often saw and conversed with angels, and when hungry
334 XXIV | shall come, the past is convicted of folly; how much more
335 XIII | mind, acknowledging their conviction that the devil never rests
336 V | fast, because he now felt convinced that the food had been provided
337 XXXVII | and parched with thirst, I cooled and refreshed myself by
338 PREF | to be handed over to be copied by such as by zeal for religion
339 XXIV | in the mouth of the river Coquet, from which it received
340 PREF | written might be either corrected, if false, or certified
341 PREF | submitted it for perusal and for correction to our reverend brother
342 XL | perceive that the event corresponded to its meaning. The body
343 XXVII | came to Lugubalia (which is corruptly called by the English Luel)
344 XXIX | throughout the rural districts, cottages, and villages, and to lay
345 XXXIX | that you be unanimous in council. Let concord be mutual between
346 VII | Eata a certain tract of country called Inrhipum, in which
347 XL | that after his death his countrymen should be exposed to be
348 VII | he took care to do in a covert manner, as if it had happened
349 VI | by his heavenly vision to covet the joys of everlasting
350 XVII | solitude which he had so long coveted. He rejoiced that from the
351 XXI | lost our dominion over the creation that has been subjected
352 XXI | neglect to obey the Lord and Creator of all things. The sea itself
353 XXI | is no wonder that every creature should obey his wishes,
354 XXI | the great Author of all creatures. But we for the most part
355 PREF | accurate examination of credible witnesses to hand over what
356 IX | neglecting the sacrament of their creed, had recourse to idolatrous
357 XLVI | could get, had filled up the crevices, that he might not be disturbed
358 XLI | reason, and shouted and cried aloud, and tried to tear
359 XXXVII | account of the fugitives and criminals who may flee to my corpse
360 XIX | KEPT OFF THE BIRDS FROM THE CROP BY HIS MERE WORD~AT first,
361 XXXVII | eastern side of the holy cross, which I have erected there.
362 XXXII | preach to the assembled crowds; and minister the grace
363 XXVII | territories with most atrocious cruelty, the man of God, Cuthbert,
364 Bibl | Cuthbert, (Cambridge: 1940) ~Crux, Joan Carroll, The Incorruptibles:
365 XXXVII | which the venerable Abbot Cudda formerly gave me. You will
366 I | play and follies, but to cultivate the powers of his mind,
367 I | first a worthy preceptor to curb the sallies of his youthful
368 XLI | God permitted many other . cures to be wrought by means of
369 XI | heaven with clouds; the currents of both winds and waves
370 XVII | them by digging round and cutting away the natural soil within
371 XXXVI | priest of the same monastery, Cynemund, who still lives, known
372 X | in praising God. When the dawn of day approached, he came
373 XVI | elected, all the priests, deacons, singers, readers, and other
374 XXIII | I said before, Heaven so dealt forth its benevolence from
375 VIII | SICKNESS, AND BOISIL, ON HIS DEATH-BED, FORETOLD TO HIM HIS FUTURE
376 XLII | find dry and free from his decayed flesh, and to put them in
377 XXXIV | in a cart the body of a deceased brother to be buried. On
378 XXII | holiness. Nor did their hope deceive them For no one went away
379 XI | them. They were, however, deceived in their expectations; for
380 XXVII | Now, then, the contest is decided ! " Tbe presbyter, who was
381 I | moment to exhibit an unusual decision both of mind and character,
382 XXVII | But he, unwilling to declare more concerning those things
383 II | noble company of virgins, dedicated to Christ. Now, as these
384 XVII | the rock, he made it much deeper, to prevent the eyes and
385 XXVIII | When these two had drunk deeply of the cup of celestial
386 II | Judas Maccabaeus, and to defend God's own temple.~CHAPTER
387 II | surrounded him, and was defended by angelic assistance; nay,
388 XLVI | patch. The symptoms of this deformity had become manifest long
389 PREF | living. But also when I am defunct, pray ye for the redemption
390 XXXVIII| his body was at the lowest degree of weakness. In this cure
391 XXIII | worked within her, and she by degrees was saved from death, though
392 PREF | you, that Almighty God may deign to guard your holinesses
393 PREF | company, that, as I have not delayed to render prompt obedience
394 XLI | a marvellous sight, and delectable to all good men, to see
395 XXXIX | when you are called upon to deliberate on your condition, see that
396 XXXIX | which it has pleased God to deliver to you through my ministry.
397 XXXVII | prudent conduct, and grave demeanour, was thought worthy to hear
398 XL | and destroyed, but after a demonstration of his threatening anger
399 Bibl | Library 479,(London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton,
400 XXII | easily captivated which was deprived of brotherly or Divine love;
401 II | the multitude began to deride their manner of life, as
402 XXVIII | large marsh from which the Derwent rises, used to come to him
403 IV | company of the heavenly host descended to the earth, and having
404 XLVI | diseased state which I have described, and that he saw it and
405 XVI | vestments of the ordinary description, neither noticeable for
406 PREF | littleness, in as far as I may deserve both at present with singleness
407 XII | one, as her service well deserves." He did as he was bidden,
408 XXV | man of God to all who are desirous of knowing, and it was he
409 II | winds overcame them. In despair therefore of human aid,
410 XXXIX | during my life some have despised me, yet after my death you
411 XXII | peculiarly exalted, because, despising secular cares, he preferred
412 I | in more ripened age was destined perfectly to know the Lord,
413 XXXVI | and to lament to him their detention. He exhorted them to be
414 II | to every one who hath the determination and the love of virtue,
415 IX | poverty and natural horrors deterred other visitors. Yet even
416 XXIII | strengthened, all matter for detraction was forthwith removed from
417 XV | CHAPTER XV ~HOW HE CAST OUT A DEV1L FROM THB PREFECT'S WIFE,
418 XXVII | army against the Picts, and devastated their territories with most
419 XIII | to prevent the snares and devices which he saw were coming. "
420 XIV | be of good cheer; this devouring flame will not hurt either
421 XVIII | used to wash their feet devoutly with warm water, and was
422 XV | to visit her before she dies, and minister to her the
423 XVI | ecclesiastical officers of different ranks, observe the monastic
424 XVIII | this stony rock. Let us dig in the middle of my hut,
425 VII | put back the table in the dining-room. Whilst doing so, he perceived
426 V | allow her to get him some dinner, that he might refresh himself.
427 XXIX | gave it to the priest, directing him to sprinkle it on the
428 IV | of Christ, which is the directress of the life of the faithful,
429 XLVI | healed, and the cicatrice disappeared. This I was told, in the
430 XXII | me ! Yea, they sought to discourage me by various trials of
431 XII | eagle." As they were thus discoursing, they came near a river,
432 XVIII | with his shoes on, he was discovered to have contracted a callosity
433 XVI | in view. Moreover, in his discussions with the brethren, when
434 IX | things. Many of them, indeed, disgraced the faith which they professed,
435 VII | unfolds his own merits without disguise, and at another time says,
436 XVI | with a placid look, and dismiss the meeting until the following
437 XV | and body, begged him to dismount and to bestow his blessing
438 XIII | and his fictitious fires dispersed along with him. The multitude,
439 XL | and gathered together the dispersion of Israel. He healed those
440 XVI | No one," said he, "can displease me by waking me out of my
441 XXXVIII| thought that the time of his dissolution was at hand. He bade his
442 XLII | even before death had been distinguished by so many signs and miracles,
443 XVI | thus during many years, distinguishing himself by such signs of
444 XXIV | intentions are the hearts of men distracted ! Some rejoice in having
445 XI | on us also in our present distress. If our faith does not waver,
446 XXXVI | last day was at hand, he divested himself of his episcopal
447 V | my beast." He therefore divided the piece of bread into
448 XXXIX | of man I was, and that my doctrine was by no means worthy of
449 XVI | rules both by his life and doctrines, and often going round,
450 XI | found there three pieces of dolphin's flesh, looking as if some
451 XVII | an oratory, the other for domestic purposes. He finished the
452 XXI | most part have lost our dominion over the creation that has
453 XXXIV | tell him something new and doubtful, " I pray," said she, "
454 II | obliged to walk lamely, dragging after him his diseased leg,
455 XXIV | could not by any means be drawn from his habitation, until
456 XXIV | these words she lamented the dreadful prophecy with many tears -
457 XIV | and began to blaze most dreadfully. For the wind was from the
458 XXXVIII| some one said to me in a dream, Go to Bishop Augustine,
459 VI | had not yet resigned the dress and habits of a layman.
460 VII | wiped them, and humbly dried them in his bosom; after
461 XLI | put him into a cart and drive him to the monastery, and
462 XIV | it with water, but were driven back by the heat. Then the
463 XIX | in want of water. And in driving away the birds, he imitated
464 XXXIV | unusually fixed, and the knife dropped from his hands upon the
465 XXVIII | things. When these two had drunk deeply of the cup of celestial
466 PREF | into a work, which, after due deliberation, I considered
467 XXXVI | from their disobedience and dullness of comprehension, whereby,
468 XVI | of tears. But whilst he duly discharged the mysteries
469 XXIV | Scriptures, should call long the duration of human life: the Psalmist
470 Bibl | M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910), 286-349 ~See also ~
471 XXVII | follow you as soon as that duty is finished." ~But when
472 XLVI | holy men whose house he dwelt in, and whose holy life
473 Bibl | London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910), 286-349 ~
474 XXIV | obtained riches, others always eager after them are still in
475 XLII | of God shall tell?~What ear the joys of paradise shall
476 XXII | which that mind would be easily captivated which was deprived
477 XVII | off several miles to the East, and, consequently, surrounded
478 XXXVII | south, over against the eastern side of the holy cross,
479 XVII | restored to the mainland at its ebb, but lying off several miles
480 X | his virtues and miracles, Ebbe, a pious woman and handmaid
481 Bibl | Bede: Life of Cuthbert, Eddius Stephanus: Life of Wilfrid:
482 XVI | my brother, having been educated in the monastic rule, you
483 XXIII | unworthy of being cured, its efficacy to cure might have been
484 I | childhood; for even to the eighth year of his life, which
485 XXXVII | was the priest Bede the elder, who had always been used
486 PREF | read during two days by the elders and teachers of your congregation,
487 X | returned to their native element. Cuthbert himself returned
488 XXXIV | holy virgin, the Abbess Elfleda, of whom I have before made
489 V | formerly fed the prophet Elias for so long a time by means
490 XVIII | be no doubt that it was elicited by the prayers of this man
491 XXIV | successor, whom you shall embrace like Egfrid himself with
492 XXII | consolation from a man so eminent for holiness. Nor did their
493 XVII | built a city fit for his empire, and houses therein suitable
494 XLII | miracle will not long remain empty; and happy is he to whom
495 XIV | by their daily piety they enable themselves to conquer the
496 XVI | rousing me from inactivity, he enables me to do or think of something
497 XVI | the asperities which he encountered, he always exhibited such
498 XXXVII | and still more violent encounters with the ancient enemy.
499 X | THINGS, BEING IN FEAR, WAS ENCOURAGED BY CUTHBERT~WHEN this holy
500 XIII | man's salvation. But he, encouraging them under their infirmity,
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