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501 XXXIV | some cause." The bishop endeavoured to conceal the fact of his
502 V | something in it. When he had ended his prayers, wishing to
503 XLV | joints of his limbs suddenly endowed with inward strength: his
504 XVI | was most exemplary, and in enduring the opposition which was
505 XXXVII | and,' continued he, ' my enemies have never persecuted me
506 XXIV | provide a person to reign over England. " She therefore understood
507 VIII | only seven days longer to enjoy my health of body, or to
508 XXXVII | about two months in the enjoyment of his rest, and had as
509 I | his mind to such plays and enjoyments alone as boys delight in,
510 VII | of earthly food, when he enjoys such bread as this in heaven."
511 XV | his open and undisguised enmity. There was a certain prefect
512 VI | receive the tonsure, and be enrolled among the brethren. When
513 PREF | testimony of such future enrolment you gave orders to your
514 XXXI | perfect recovery speedily ensued, and both himself and the
515 XII | and gave also to their entertainers, whilst Cuthbert preached
516 XLII | the tomb, found his body entire, as if he were still alive,
517 Bibl | St. Cuthbert, in a volume entitled Ecclesiastical History of
518 X | messengers to the man of God, entreating him to come and visit her
519 IV | tending a flock of sheep entrusted to his care on some distant
520 XI | hunger, the day of the holy Epiphany was at hand, and the man
521 XXVIII | that being by grace made equal to his intercessor, he might
522 XLII | shall hear?~Triumphant o'er the gates of death and hell, ~
523 XII | journey still lay before them ere they could reach the village
524 XXXIX | communion with those who err from the unity of the Catholic
525 XXXVI | perceive and to correct their error. They rejoiced, because
526 XLIII | departed to the Lord. It was an especial mercy granted to his earnest
527 XV | good works, and therefore especially beloved by Saint Cuthbert,
528 VIII | health; for they thought it essential to them that so pious a
529 PREF | of these my authors, to establish the truth of my narrative,
530 XXIII | the man of God might be established by these two miracles, and
531 XXXIV | mention, he entered the estate belonging to her monastery,
532 XXXIX | their journey: by no means esteeming yourselves better than the
533 VIII | in seven days. "John the Evangelist," said Boisil. "I have a
534 XI | prophecy, to foretell future events, and to describe to those
535 Bibl | Nation,. trans. J.A. Giles, Everyman's Library 479,(London: J.
536 V | shown to him by the clearest evidence, that to those who seek
537 XXXIX | remember, that, if of two evils you are compelled to choose
538 XXI | required size, and placed it exactly in the situation where the
539 I | Jeremiah the prophet, who, in exaltation of the anchorite's perfect
540 PREF | without the most accurate examination of credible witnesses to
541 PREF | was accurately weighed and examined in all its parts, there
542 XVI | round the island, diligently examining every thing therein, and
543 XXVI | according to the precepts and examples of the Apostles. For he
544 XVII | than a man, but within, by excavating the rock, he made it much
545 XXII | of whom have I known far exceed my littleness, both in purity
546 XII | fish to be cooked, made an excellent repast, and gave also to
547 I | was Cuthbert, and in the excitement of boyish whims, several
548 XLII | and he ordered them to execute this on the 20th of April,
549 XVI | For his patience was most exemplary, and in enduring the opposition
550 XXI | which we have mentioned, exemplified their obedience to the venerable
551 XVI | and such like spiritual exercises, this venerable man both
552 XIV | prayers, though all the exertions of his fellow-countrymen
553 I | began from that moment to exhibit an unusual decision both
554 XXII | the sorrowful with pious exhortation; he could recall the joys
555 I | Cuthbert, and in a firm tone exhorts him not to indulge in idle
556 XXIV | Scotland, suffering a voluntary exile, to gratify his love of
557 XXIV | his love of literature, exiled to the Scottish islands.
558 XVI | the same system, which has existed from the first beginning
559 XLI | he had been accustomed to exorcise and expel evil spirits,
560 XVI | or even by commanding or exorcising the devils to go out of
561 XI | however, deceived in their expectations; for no sooner were they
562 XLI | accustomed to exorcise and expel evil spirits, yet in this
563 XLVI | portion to each. But he first experienced its influence in his own
564 XXVII | had escaped from the war explained, by the lamentable news
565 XXIV | told you. " When he had expounded to her the various things
566 XX | asked pardon by the most expressive signs it could, and obtained
567 XVII | therefore, having thus, by the expulsion of the tyrants, become the
568 V | passion, are accustomed to extend their fasting even to the
569 XVII | about four or five poles in extent: the wall on the outside
570 XXII | trials of apparitions, and to exterminate me from this scene of trial,
571 II | never afterwards ceased to extol it: so that one of the most
572 II | infidelity, both on the spot extolled the faith of Cuthbert as
573 XXXVI | there occupy his time in extracting the thorns of the flesh,
574 XIX | although the season was extraordinarily late; and the barley came
575 V | who now, by reason of his extreme old age, is turning his
576 XLI | the day before, from the extremity of his madness, he did not
577 XXX | of which there were many eye-witnesses, one of whom is the religious
578 II | archangel Raphael to restore the eyesight of Tobit. If any one think
579 Bibl | IL: Tan, 1977) ~Webb. J.F., trans., The Age of Bede,
580 XXVI | followed that system which most facilitates teaching, by first doing
581 XXXIV | endeavoured to conceal the fact of his having seen any thing
582 PREF | presence, added many other facts of no less importance than
583 XXV | qualities. He also has the faculty of relating in the sweetest
584 XVI | Lastly, he would reprove the faintheartedness of the brethren, who took
585 VI | amid the last sighs of his fainting body thirsting for a happy
586 VI | watching, and praying, he fairly outdid them all. Like the
587 XXI | obey his wishes, who so faithfully, and with his whole heart,
588 XXXIV | incautiously mounted a tree, had fallen down, and died from the
589 XXXVII | had always been used to familiar attendance upon him. This
590 XXXIX | hospitality, but admit them familiarly and kindly; and when you
591 XI | right against us: we are famished with hunger, and there is
592 V | cannot yet eat, for it is a fast-day." It was the sixth day of
593 V | religion prevailed, and he fasted the whole day until the
594 XLVI | give him a calf's skin, and fastened it with nails in the corner,
595 XI | us to remain all this day fasting-a day which He formerly made
596 XXXVI | could not call to mind what fault they had committed. They
597 PREF | of that man of God. Some faults were, at their suggestion,
598 PREF | entreat the Divine clemency in favour of my littleness, in as
599 XLVI | one large red swelling. Fearing, therefore, lest he should
600 XXVII | out, and we sat down to feast. But, in the middle of the
601 XXXVIII| thither, for he was too feeble to walk himself. When we
602 IV | the sheep, which he was feeding, to their owners, and determined
603 XIII | heart and with watchful feelings, lest the devil, who has
604 XIV | all the exertions of his fellow-countrymen had failed to extinguish
605 PREF | Lindisfarne, Bede, your faithful fellow-servant, sends greeting. ~INASMUCH
606 XXIV | wiped her face. she with feminine boldness adjured him by
607 XIV | extinguished a real fire by the fervency of his tears, when many
608 XVI | for righteousness he was fervid to correct sinners, he was
609 VII | thyself, whilst I go and fetch some hot bread, which must
610 XX | return. It then departed and fetched its companion; and when
611 XIII | to be forgiven for their fickleness of mind, acknowledging their
612 XIII | was put to flight, and his fictitious fires dispersed along with
613 XXV | who is still alive and filling the office of presbyter
614 XI | PREDICTED THAT IT WOULD BE FINE ON A CERTAIN DAY, AND HOW
615 I | up to Cuthbert, and in a firm tone exhorts him not to
616 XIX | afterwards he thought it more fitting to live by the labour of
617 XXXVIII| eyes round on all, and, fixing them on the sick brother
618 XIII | neighbouring house, so that flakes of fire seemed to fly through
619 XXXV | TASTING IT, SO THAT IT HAD THE FLAVOUR OF WINE~WHEN he had gone
620 XXXVII | fugitives and criminals who may flee to my corpse for refuge;
621 XLII | and his joints were still flexible, as if he were not dead,
622 XVIII | its first limits so as to flood the pavement, nor yet ever
623 II | said, "Boil some wheaten flour in milk, and apply the poultice
624 XVII | like Lindisfarne, by the flow of the tide, which the Greeks
625 XLII | monastery, and closed in by the flowing waves of the sea. Here it
626 X | went down to the sea, which flows beneath, and going into
627 VIII | this world is frail and fluctuating, like the sea when a storm
628 XIII | flakes of fire seemed to fly through the air, and a storm
629 XII | up, and seeing an eagle flying in the air, he said, " Do
630 XLI | from the harassing of the foe, and confirmed in the faith
631 XLII | still on the saint's body. "Fold up the body," said he, "
632 XXXII | going round visiting his folds, he came to a mountainous
633 I | indulge in idle play and follies, but to cultivate the powers
634 XII | going, Cuthbert said to his follower, "Where shall we stop to
635 XXVII | listening congregation, as follows:-" I beseech you, my beloved,
636 XII | not looked upon vanity and foolish deceit. After this, they
637 IX | horseback, sometimes on foot, and preached the way of
638 VII | could see no traces of his footsteps, though there had been a
639 V | hay, which the wind had forced from the roof. He then turned
640 XLV | strengthened and confirmed. Where fore it is profitable to bear
641 XLIV | LASTLY, there came from foreign parts a certain priest of
642 XIII | CHAPTER XIII~HOW HE FORESAW A VISION OF A FIRE COMING
643 XI | the spirit of prophecy, to foretell future events, and to describe
644 XVI | them by his prayers, or by foretelling that they should be restored;
645 XIII | before him, prayed to be forgiven for their fickleness of
646 IX | and they hoped to merit forgiveness by an honest confession.
647 XXI | reached home they had entirely forgotten the matter, and on their
648 XVII | building is almost of a round form, from wall to wall about
649 XVII | within and without, and formed the roof out of rough poles
650 I | bodies into various unnatural forms. On a sudden, one of them,
651 XXVII | the heart is to be always fortified against the storms of temptations.
652 VIII | FORETOLD TO HIM HIS FUTURE FORTUNES ~MEANWHILE, as every thing
653 | forty
654 XXXVII | repose here, where I have fought my humble battles for the
655 XLVI | Lindisfarne, to restore from its foundation the time-worn oratory. This
656 XVIII | of water and stones into fountains, that giving glory, not
657 XXIII | place to place, save on all fours. Her sorrow was, therefore,
658 VII | I knew a man in Christ fourteen years ago, who was carried
659 VIII | every thing in this world is frail and fluctuating, like the
660 XXVIII | undone through ignorance or frailty, I have equally taken care
661 VI | for he was of a robust frame arid of unimpaired strength,
662 II | usual modes of life, and framing for themselves new rules
663 XXIV | restore me after a moderate freedom, and perhaps after not more
664 VII | though there had been a fresh fall of snow, which would
665 XLII | to retain their original freshness and colour. When the brethren
666 XLIV | Wilbrord Clement, bishop of the Fresons, who, whilst he was stopping
667 XXVIII | in the bond of spiritual friendship, and who, leading a solitary
668 XIV | fire, placed himself in front of the flames, and put them
669 XXVI | still to exercise his usual frugality, he did not cease to observe
670 XV | to almsgiving and other fruits of virtue, was suddenly
671 XXXVII | repose here on account of the fugitives and criminals who may flee
672 XXIV | his prophecies might be fulfilled in all things, Egfrid was
673 XXVII | increased, and raged so furiously from day to day, for months,
674 PREF | considered to be perfect. ~Furthermore, I have thought right to
675 XXII | of God, not only from the furthest parts of Lindisfarne, but
676 XVIII | taking off his leathern gaiters. Sometimes, too, he would
677 I | were one day some customary games going on in a field, and
678 XIX | the wild asses from the garden which he had planted.~
679 II | approaching, clothed in white garments, and honourable to be looked
680 XVIII | his frequent prayers and genuflexions, which he made with his
681 Bibl | English Nation,. trans. J.A. Giles, Everyman's Library 479,(
682 XLV | holy man's relics was be ginning to exert its power, and
683 XXX | CHAPTER XXX ~HOW HE CURED A GIRL OF A PAIN IN THE HEAD AND
684 XLII | whom the Lord, who is the giver of true happiness, shall
685 XXVIII | not lament, but rejoice in gladness, for his great mercy has
686 XXIV | he ought to remember the gloomy time of many days, which
687 PREF | middle, and the end of his glorious life and conversation, I
688 XV | afflicted by a devil, that she gnashed her teeth, uttered the most
689 XLI | by howling, groaning, and gnashing his teeth, filled the eyes
690 XXXVII | appeared to have been a little gnawed, but certainly not more
691 XXVI | sorrow which is according to godliness. Desiring still to exercise
692 XVII | virtue to virtue; the God of Gods shall be seen in Zion. "
693 XII | The boy ran, and found a good-sized fish, which the eagle had
694 XXIV | brother Egfrid would live and govern the English nation. " For
695 XVI | whilst the monastery is governed by the abbot, whom they,
696 XVI | with the authority of its governor, and illustrate it by the
697 PREF | thought right to admonish your gracious company, that, as I have
698 XLIII | that he left this life by a gradual, and not a sudden death.
699 XIX | but when he had sown the grain in the spring, it did not
700 XXV | there, and had received the grateful salutations of all, the
701 V | him for a single meal. In gratitude for the Divine goodness,
702 XX | visited him, and kept to grease their shoes with; testifying
703 XXV | arrival will afford us the greatest profit both of mind and
704 PREF | faithful fellow-servant, sends greeting. ~INASMUCH as you bade me,
705 XVI | himself. The blessed pope Gregory showed that he approved
706 XXII | afflicted with the same grief which had brought him thither.
707 XXX | was confined with a most grievous sickness; for during a whole
708 XIX | came and wasted it most grievously. Christ's holy servant,
709 XLI | therefore, by howling, groaning, and gnashing his teeth,
710 IV | its King, whilst we still grovel amid this earthly darkness:
711 PREF | Almighty God may deign to guard your holinesses in peace
712 XXVII | God. It appeared that the guards had been slain, and the
713 II | civilities to show to such a guest. " Yes," said the other, "
714 II | themselves new rules by which to guide their conduct. Cuthbert
715 VI | indeed, in whom there is no guile ! " I was told this by that
716 VII | another time says, under the guise of another, " I knew a man
717 PREF | orders to your pious brother Guthfrid, that he should even now
718 XIV | woman, whom he was in the habit of often visiting, and whom,
719 VI | yet resigned the dress and habits of a layman. Boisil was
720 XXXIV | remember in the mass my servant Hadwald," (for that was his name,) "
721 X | and wiped them with their hair after which, having received
722 X | noble birth, for she was half-sister of King Oswy. She sent messengers
723 PREF | any hesitation, and to be handed over to be copied by such
724 V | wall, placed before him a handful of hay, which the wind had
725 XXIII | several companies of Christ's handmaids, and added to the lustre
726 XLI | his home, freed from the harassing of the foe, and confirmed
727 XVIII | of water, being built on hard and stony ground. The man
728 XIII | who has a thousand ways of harming you, prevent you by superfluous
729 VII | the home to which he was hastening lay at some distance. After
730 VI | abandoning worldly things, hastens to submit to monastic discipline,
731 XXII | said he, "have they sent me headlong from the high rock ! How
732 XVI | the opposition which was heaped equally upon his mind and
733 XIV | were driven back by the heat. Then the aforesaid handmaid
734 XXIX | receive a recompense for so heavy and long-continued trouble."
735 XL | waited an hour on an opposite height in the island of Lindisfarne,
736 X | who waited for him on the heights, was so terrified that he
737 XXIV | tell her who would be the heir to the kingdom, seeing that
738 XXIV | not say that he is without heirs, for he shall have a successor,
739 XLII | er the gates of death and hell, ~The just shall live amid
740 XVII | Christ came, armed with the helmet of salvation, the shield
741 XVII | Cuthbert himself, with angels helping him, had raised them up
742 | hereafter
743 | herein
744 PREF | already have written in heroic verse, as well as in this
745 PREF | worthy to be read without any hesitation, and to be handed over to
746 XVII | was constructed, not of hewn stones or of brick and mortar,
747 XXVII | news which he brought, the hidden prophecies of the man of
748 XLI | were bloodshot and staring hideously, he fell back into a profound
749 XXXVII | but for the love of that highly favoured woman, who sent
750 XXXVII | I left my cell and came hither to meet any one who might
751 XX | their beaks a large piece of hog's lard, which the man of
752 XL | lighted two candles, and, holding one in each hand, ascended
753 PREF | may deign to guard your holinesses in peace and safety, dearest
754 XXI | the waves had scooped a hollow, it was necessary to put
755 XVI | internal consolations of the Holv Spirit. ~But he was so zealous
756 XXV | having commenced his journey homewards, a certain attendant of
757 IX | merit forgiveness by an honest confession. He was mostly
758 VII | the rose in odour, and honey in taste. They are, therefore,
759 II | clothed in white garments, and honourable to be looked upon, and the
760 IX | escape his notice, and they hoped to merit forgiveness by
761 XI | grace of God to him who hopes and trusts in the Lord.
762 XLI | he was uttering the most horrible and lamentable cries. He
763 XXII | the heavenly life, felt horrified at the announcement. ~
764 XLI | all who were there with horror, and no one could think
765 IX | their poverty and natural horrors deterred other visitors.
766 IV | company of the heavenly host descended to the earth,
767 XXXIII | and no one else of your household shall die of this pestilence."
768 XLI | The mad boy, therefore, by howling, groaning, and gnashing
769 II | it not be better and more humane to entreat the Lord in their
770 VII | himself, wiped them, and humbly dried them in his bosom;
771 XIV | devouring flame will not hurt either you or yours." He
772 XV | and expected to die, her husband mounted his horse, and,
773 XIX | him some instruments of husbandry, and some wheat to sow;
774 V | fell upon some shepherds' huts, which, having been slightly
775 XL | understand the meaning of the hymn which was then for the first
776 X | to join in the accustomed hymns with the other brethren.
777 XL | Lord built up Jerusalem, i.e. the vision of peace, and
778 IX | their creed, had recourse to idolatrous remedies, as if by charms
779 XXVIII | have left undone through ignorance or frailty, I have equally
780 II | CHAPTER II ~HOW HE BECAME LAME WITH
781 II | God's own temple.~CHAPTER III~HOW HE CHANGED THE WINDS
782 Bibl | Saints and Beati, (Rockford IL: Tan, 1977) ~Webb. J.F.,
783 XXIV | succeeded on the throne by his illegitimate brother Alfrid, who, a few
784 VI | Foreseeing in spirit what an illustrious man the stranger would become,
785 I | the ears of his mind to imbibe the voice of God. He took
786 VI | servant of the Lord ! " herein imitating Him who said of Nathaniel,
787 XX | miracle which he wrought in imitation of the aforesaid father
788 II | whom they saw under such imminent danger of destruction. But
789 XIII | rests even for an hour from impeding the work of man's salvation.
790 VIII | of my tongue." Cuthbert, implicitly believing what he heard,
791 XI | one to relieve us. Let us importune the Lord with our prayers,
792 XVI | one came and unseasonably importuned them to awake at night or
793 XXXII | grace of the Holy Spirit by imposition of hands upon those that
794 IX | they supposed that it was impossible to escape his notice, and
795 XXII | TO HIM, AND EXPOSED THE IMPOTENT SNARES OF THE OLD ENEMY ~
796 XXXIX | by keeping Easter at an improper time, or by their perverse
797 XVI | for, by rousing me from inactivity, he enables me to do or
798 II | simplicity, and altogether incapable of telling an untruth.~
799 XXVII | who was standing near, in incautious haste answered, and said, "
800 XXXIV | worthy man, who, having incautiously mounted a tree, had fallen
801 VII | their predecessors, as an incentive to piety, he would introduce
802 I | the effect of God's grace inciting him gradually to the way
803 XXXVI | but do you, as you are inclined to depart, first take food;
804 II | on which he sat, was of incomparable beauty. He drew near to
805 Bibl | Crux, Joan Carroll, The Incorruptibles: A Study of the Incorruption
806 Bibl | Incorruptibles: A Study of the Incorruption of Bodies of Various Catholic
807 II | Tobit. If any one think it incredible that an angel should appear
808 XXIII | thereof be removed from the incredulous. For if the girdle had remained,
809 XXVII | as you teach, for it is incumbent on us to watch in spirit,
810 XXXVI | given with carelessness or indifference. He had one day left his
811 I | tone exhorts him not to indulge in idle play and follies,
812 XIV | of our own weakness and inertness, are sure that we can do
813 II | rustics blushing for their infidelity, both on the spot extolled
814 XVI | were afflicted with various infirmities and sufferings; some that
815 IX | were able to avert a stroke inflicted upon them by the Lord. To
816 XXIV | many other religious and influential men as he could: they all
817 XIII | this, were suffused with ingenuous blushes, and, falling on
818 V | a priest of the name of Ingwald, who now, by reason of his
819 XVII | Cuthbert, had ever dared to inhabit this island alone, on account
820 XLV | is kind towards all our iniquities, and heals all our sicknesses.
821 XXXVII | bishop, to despise your injunction to be buried here, and yet
822 Bibl | Penguin, 1965, rev. 1988) - inlcudes Bede: Life of Cuthbert,
823 XXXVII | best plan to bury it in the inmost parts of the church, that
824 XV | only the wicked but the innocent are sometimes permitted
825 XXXIV | the larger monastery to inquire who had been lately removed
826 XXXV | and asked for drink. They inquired of him what he would have,
827 XXXVII | without making any more inquiries, I said to him, ' Give us
828 VII | tract of country called Inrhipum, in which to build a monastery.
829 PREF | not thought it unmeet to insert new matter into a work,
830 PREF | conversation, I sometimes inserted the names of these my authors,
831 XX | dumb bird that had acted so insolently, hastened by prayers, lamentation,
832 | instead
833 XXVII | only admonished, as it were instinctively, that the state of the heart
834 XVI | to the faith, you should institute the same system, which has
835 XXXIX | practise with zeal those institutes of the monastic life which
836 XXII | Melrose Abbey, and while instructing me, he foretold, with prophetic
837 XXXIX | CHAPTER XXXIX~HIS LAST INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BRETIIREN; AND HOW,
838 XXIX | ministered to those who had been instrumental in curing her; and it was
839 XIX | asked them to bring him some instruments of husbandry, and some wheat
840 II | Cuthbert restrained the insults of the blasphemers, saying, "
841 XXXIX | hands above him, his soul, intent upon heavenly praises, sped
842 XXIV | effect would follow the intention, she began by inquiring
843 XXIV | Oh, with what various intentions are the hearts of men distracted !
844 XXXVII | may think it necessary to intercede for such before the secular
845 XXVIII | grace made equal to his intercessor, he might be rendered worthy
846 VII | in the morning, from the interior of the monastery into the
847 XXXVII | offered up for him without intermission; ' for,' said I, ' it seems
848 XVI | were compensated for by the internal consolations of the Holv
849 XXXIX | of God delivered to us at intervals, for, as we before said,
850 XXX | had been troubled with an intolerable pain in the head and side,
851 VI | every drink which could intoxicate; but was not able to abstain
852 Bibl | trans., The Age of Bede, Intro. By D. H. Farmer (London:
853 VII | incentive to piety, he would introduce also, in the meekest way,
854 XLV | of midnight prayer, the invalid himself was awakened by
855 XXVII | disturbed? Who is able to investigate the judgments of the Almighty? "
856 PREF | presumed without minute investigation to write any of the deeds
857 XVII | time contended with the invisible adversary with prayer and
858 XXI | necessities." They accepted his invitation; and when they rose in the
859 XV | in mind as ever, and will invite us in and minister to us
860 XL | the place rather than be involved in such dangers. ~" At the
861 I | beginning to exert its influence inwardly in his heart. Nor ought
862 VIII | appearances, struck into his inwards, he felt a little pain in
863 XL | together the dispersion of Israel. He healed those who were
864 VI | approached Him, " Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is
865 II | had recourse to God, and issuing forth from the monastery,
866 IV | CHAPTER IV~HOW, IN COMPANY WITH SHEPHERDS,
867 IX | CHAPTER IX~HOW CUTHBERT WAS ZEALOUS
868 I | Cuthbert is hallowed by Jeremiah the prophet, who, in exaltation
869 XL | Scripture, The Lord built up Jerusalem, i.e. the vision of peace,
870 II | mildly, and asked him as in jest, whether he had no civilities
871 Bibl | Cambridge: 1940) ~Crux, Joan Carroll, The Incorruptibles:
872 VIII | finish it in seven days. "John the Evangelist," said Boisil. "
873 X | returned home in time to join in the accustomed hymns
874 XXVIII | moment of time, and were joined together in a heavenly vision,
875 XXXIV | supernatural, and replied in joke, "I was not able to eat
876 II | horseback to the assistance of Judas Maccabaeus, and to defend
877 XXXVII | lifted up by a righteous Judge to obtain the crown of righteousness.
878 XXVII | able to investigate the judgments of the Almighty? " But he
879 II | should be most ready to jump up and offer you all the
880 I | him for victory. For in jumping, running, wrestling, or
881 XVIII | contracted a callosity on the junction of his feet and legs. At
882 XVI | both monasteries under his jurisdiction. And no one should wonder
883 XXXIX | Catholic faith, either by keeping Easter at an improper time,
884 XXXVI | wonderfully that the moment the kettle began to boil, the wind
885 XXII | thrown stones at me as if to kill me ! Yea, they sought to
886 XXXVII | bold enough to ask what kinds of persecutions he had suffered:
887 XIV | of a fire like a burning kitchen, which the old enemy had
888 XLVI | his predecessor used to kneel or stand when they prayed,
889 II | CHAPTER II ~HOW HE BECAME LAME WITH A SWELLING IN HIS KNEE,
890 II | and he was obliged to walk lamely, dragging after him his
891 XX | insolently, hastened by prayers, lamentation, and presents, to obliterate
892 XXVIII | his feet with tears and lamentations, saying, " I beseech you
893 XXIV | hearing these words she lamented the dreadful prophecy with
894 XVII | straw. Moreover, at the landing-place of the island he built a
895 XXXVII | For when you were gone, my languor began to increase, so that
896 XX | beaks a large piece of hog's lard, which the man of God used
897 XXXIV | immediately sent to the larger monastery to inquire who
898 XIX | season was extraordinarily late; and the barley came up
899 II | this from the monastery, launched some boats into the river,
900 VI | the dress and habits of a layman. Boisil was standing before
901 XXXI | well." All present were laymen, but at the same time very
902 XLIV | the staff on which he had leaned. A few days afterwards he
903 VI | was arrived there, and had leaped from his horse, that he
904 II | able to heal me. " The man, leaping from his horse, began to
905 XL | a man of great virtues, learned in the Holy Scripture, and
906 XVIII | months without taking off his leathern gaiters. Sometimes, too,
907 XXVIII | approaches, and the time of leaving my earthly tenement is at
908 II | dragging after him his diseased leg, until at length the pain
909 XVIII | junction of his feet and legs. At length, as his zeal
910 XXIV | sent many messengers and letters to him, he could not by
911 XXXIV | hand thus trembling and letting fall the knife, whilst his
912 I | same God can restrain the levity of a child by the mouth
913 Bibl | J.A. Giles, Everyman's Library 479,(London: J.M. Dent;
914 XIX | this ? If you have received license from God, do what He allows
915 XXXV | monastery at Weremouth. and now lies buried there.~
916 XXVII | he raised himself, and, lifting his eyes to heaven, groaned
917 XL | One of them instantly lighted two candles, and, holding
918 VII | produced; they surpass the lily in whiteness, the rose in
919 XLV | could hardly move a single limb. Being thus given over by
920 XVIII | never overflowed its first limits so as to flood the pavement,
921 XXVII | began again to teach his listening congregation, as follows:-"
922 II | he was heard by Him who listens to the cry of the poor,
923 V | and found in it half of a loaf of bread, still hot, and
924 XL | in each hand, ascended a lofty spot, to show to the brethren
925 XXIX | recompense for so heavy and long-continued trouble." The man of God
926 XLVI | put together, had become loose and tottering by age, and,
927 II | deserved to suffer this loss, by abandoning the usual
928 XXVII | eyes to heaven, groaned loudly, and said in a low voice, "
929 X | visit her monastery. This loving message from the handmaid
930 XXVII | groaned loudly, and said in a low voice, " Now, then, the
931 XXXVIII| though his body was at the lowest degree of weakness. In this
932 XXVII | corruptly called by the English Luel) to speak to the queen,
933 XXIII | handmaids, and added to the lustre of her princely birth the
934 Bibl | s Library 479,(London: J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton,
935 II | the assistance of Judas Maccabaeus, and to defend God's own
936 II | read the history of the Maccabees, in which angels are said
937 XLI | the benefit desired. The mad boy, therefore, by howling,
938 IX | any other mysteries of the magical art, they were able to avert
939 XXXV | river Tyne; where he was magnificently entertained by Christ's
940 XVII | and then restored to the mainland at its ebb, but lying off
941 XXXVI | the chastening of their Maker, they were unable to perceive
942 XLVI | to come will heal all the maladies of our minds and bodies,
943 XXIII | forthwith removed from the malice of the unrighteous.~
944 XXVII | stedfast in the faith, act manfully, and be comforted, that
945 XLVI | this deformity had become manifest long before to the monks,
946 XXVII | the Lord. For the angel manifested great joy to the shepherds
947 XIV | imitated that venerable priest Marcellinus of Ancona, who, when his
948 XXVI | shivering, and his course was marked by all the other particulars
949 VII | which would have exhibited marks of a person walking upon
950 XXVIII | in an island in the large marsh from which the Derwent rises,
951 XLI | before the relics of the martyrs praise to the Lord God and
952 XXXVII | since we left you, and I marvel that you were so unwilling
953 XXI | When they saw this, they marvelled at the holiness of the venerable
954 XLI | been afflicted. It was a marvellous sight, and delectable to
955 PREF | faithful servant; offer up masses for me, and enrol my name
956 PREF | safety, dearest brethren and masters of mine.-Amen !~
957 XIV | nothing in that way against material fire, and, indeed, are by
958 XLV | time of the midnight or matin song in thanksgiving to
959 V | bread, still hot, and some meat, enough of both to serve
960 XLV | used all their skill in medicine, but without effect, for
961 XXXII | which all the care and medicines of the physicians had not
962 I | the sweetness of divine meditation to hold his tongue silent
963 VII | would introduce also, in the meekest way, the spiritual benefits
964 XXXI | the wasting of his outward members ceased. A perfect recovery
965 XLI | the pit into which that memorable water was thrown, of a square
966 XIX | BIRDS FROM THE CROP BY HIS MERE WORD~AT first, indeed, he
967 XXVII | indulging ourselves in eating, merriment, and conversation, I again
968 X | her monastery. This loving message from the handmaid of his
969 XXIV | thee; and although thou mightest obtain a bishopric, than
970 XXXVI | their disobedience with mild countenance and in gentle
971 XVI | gentle in the spirit of mildness to forgive the penitent,
972 XVII | ebb, but lying off several miles to the East, and, consequently,
973 II | Boil some wheaten flour in milk, and apply the poultice
974 PREF | brethren and masters of mine.-Amen !~
975 XLVI | through whom and in whom the miraculous cure, which I mention, was
976 XI | through the Red Sea, and miraculously fed them in the wilderness,
977 I | delight, as we have stated, in mirth and clamour; and, as was
978 IV | to imitate his example. "Miserable men that we are," said he, "
979 II | to take delight in their misfortunes? " But the rustics, turning
980 XVI | to Augustine, his first missionary to Britain, who asked him
981 XLI | portion of the dirt, he mixed it with some water, and
982 II | by abandoning the usual modes of life, and framing for
983 XVI | these by his patience and modest virtues, and by daily practice
984 XVII | tyrants, become the lawful monarch of the land, built a city
985 XVI | reverend abbot had both monasteries under his jurisdiction.
986 IX | three, nay, even a whole month, without returning home;
987 X | return home at the hour of morning-prayer. Now one night, a brother
988 XXII | the adversities common to mortals, with which they were afflicted,
989 XVII | hewn stones or of brick and mortar, but of rough stones and
990 | mostly
991 XXIX | following the example of the mother-in-law of the Apostle Peter, who,
992 XXIII | of virginity, devoted her motherly care and piety to several
993 V | hour. The woman, from a motive of hospitality, persisted
994 X | to his disciples on the mountain, said, " See that you tell
995 XXXII | his folds, he came to a mountainous and wild place, where many
996 II | with angry minds and angry mouths, exclaimed, " Nobody shall
997 VI | be instructed, but he was moved by the great reputation
998 XXXVII | I have sat here without moving.' -' And how have you supported
999 XXXVI | duties and returned to his much-loved solitude, that he might
1000 XXXIX | council. Let concord be mutual between you and other servants
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