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1001 XLVI | skin, and fastened it with nails in the corner, where himself
1002 XLV | stripped the poor man's feet naked, put them upon him; for
1003 PREF | I sometimes inserted the names of these my authors, to
1004 XVI | or during their afternoon naps. "No one," said he, "can
1005 VI | imitating Him who said of Nathaniel, when he approached Him, "
1006 XIII | and thunder shook the sky. Nearly the whole multitude rushed
1007 XVI | noticeable for their too great neatness, nor yet too slovenly. Wherefore,
1008 XVIII | other purpose of absolute necessity.~
1009 XXXIX | so place a yoke upon your necks. Study diligently, and carefully
1010 XXVI | to others. He saved the needy man from the hand of the
1011 IX | in the time of mortality, neglecting the sacrament of their creed,
1012 XXVII | explained, by the lamentable news which he brought, the hidden
1013 XI | the Picts, which is called Niduari. Two of the brethren accompanied
1014 | NINE
1015 XXXVIII| ILLNESS, HE CURED ONE OF NIS ATTENDANTS OF A DIARRHEA~"
1016 XXIX | benediction, now the first of the nobleman's family to offer him refreshment,
1017 XXXVII | erected there. Towards the north side of that same oratory
1018 XXV | little through his mouth and nostrils." Cuthbert immediately blessed
1019 XVI | within him rather than the note of singing. In his zeal
1020 IX | impossible to escape his notice, and they hoped to merit
1021 XVI | ordinary description, neither noticeable for their too great neatness,
1022 XXXV | districts, he came to a nunnery, which we have before mentioned,
1023 XXIII | THE ABBESS AND ONE OF HER NUNS WERE CURED~BUT though our
1024 XIV | and whom, from having been nursed by her in his infancy, he
1025 XLII | spot, above the ground, as objects of veneration to the people.
1026 XX | lamentation, and presents, to obliterate the injury which it had
1027 VII | and discipline which were observed at Melrose. It chanced that
1028 VI | sought to surpass them by observing stricter discipline; and
1029 XXI | air and fire, on former occasions which we have mentioned,
1030 XLVI | Ethelwald had commenced his occupation of the same island and monastery,
1031 XXXVI | themselves, as to correct their offences even by an open miracle.
1032 XLV | round all the sacred places, offering up prayers and the sacrifice
1033 XVI | and other ecclesiastical officers of different ranks, observe
1034 XLVI | NOR do I think I ought to omit the heavenly miracle which
1035 VIII | that simple faith which operates by love, and did not trouble
1036 XXXVII | own island; and I added my opinion, that it would be more proper
1037 XVI | bitter taunts of those who opposed him, he would rise from
1038 XVI | exemplary, and in enduring the opposition which was heaped equally
1039 XXVI | destitute from those who would oppress them. He comforted the weak
1040 XXIV | of the bishopric; yet the ordination did not take place immediately,
1041 XLII | and seemed to retain their original freshness and colour. When
1042 X | was half-sister of King Oswy. She sent messengers to
1043 | otherwise
1044 X | two quadrupeds, called otters, came up from the sea, and,
1045 VI | and praying, he fairly outdid them all. Like the mighty
1046 XXXII | having placed him down at the outlet of the wood, sent to the
1047 XVII | extent: the wall on the outside is higher than a man, but
1048 XVII | most retired spot in the outskirts of the monastery. But when
1049 I | Spirit which had spoken outwardly to him by the mouth of the
1050 II | and violence of the winds overcame them. In despair therefore
1051 XVIII | remarkable quality, never overflowed its first limits so as to
1052 XXIII | Saint Cuthbert: she was overjoyed at the gift, and perceiving
1053 IV | he was feeding, to their owners, and determined forthwith
1054 Bibl | Relics of St. Cuthbert, (Oxford: 1956) ~Colgrave. B. ed.,
1055 XXV | BISHOPRIC, HE CURED A SERVANT OY ONE OF THE KING S ATTENDANTS
1056 Bibl | J.M. Dent; New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910), 286-349 ~
1057 XXI | the most gentle manner, pacified them, and requested them
1058 I | with evident attention, and pacifying the crying child with affectionate
1059 II | for I have long had this painful swelling in my knee, and
1060 XLV | advanced, the man felt a palpitation in his feet alternately,
1061 XLV | was in his feet that the palsy had first attacked him.
1062 I | revealed to him. " Such was the panegyric of his boyhood, who in more
1063 PREF | ventured to put my pen to paper and to write. But when my
1064 XLV | weakness which the Greeks call paralysis. His abbot, knowing that
1065 XLV | CHAPTER XLV ~HOW A PARALYTIC WAS HEALED BY MEANS OF HIS
1066 XXXVII | my mouth became dry and parched with thirst, I cooled and
1067 XXXIV | wished first to go round his parishes, and visit the houses of
1068 XXXIX | than the rest of those who partake of the same faith and mode
1069 XL | the Holy Scripture, and in particular given to works of charity.
1070 XIV | extinguish the fires of vicious passions and of punishment in the
1071 XXXIV | aside the duties of his pastoral office, and return to his
1072 XLVI | by a swelling and a red patch. The symptoms of this deformity
1073 XI | He opened to his people a path through the Red Sea, and
1074 XXXVII | returning home, did not cease to pay him frequent visits.~
1075 XXII | his conversation as being peculiarly exalted, because, despising
1076 PREF | thus ventured to put my pen to paper and to write. But
1077 Bibl | By D. H. Farmer (London: Penguin, 1965, rev. 1988) - inlcudes
1078 XVI | mildness to forgive the penitent, so that he would often
1079 XI | which the man of God there performed. They arrived there the
1080 VII | be more zealous still in performing works of piety; and with
1081 XXXVII | my enemies have never persecuted me so much during my whole
1082 XXXVII | enough to ask what kinds of persecutions he had suffered: I only
1083 I | up to console him, but he persists in weeping. They ask him
1084 PREF | frequently submitted it for perusal and for correction to our
1085 XX | birds are a warning to the perversity and pride of mankind. There
1086 VIII | Lindisfarne, he was seized with a pestilential disease, of which many inhabitants
1087 II | swelling in my knee, and no physician, with all his care, has
1088 XXXVI | have related, I did not pick up from any chance authority,
1089 XXXII | attendants. They therefore pitched tents for him in the road,
1090 XL | hast been angry, and hast pitied us. ' One of them instantly
1091 XVI | who confessed their sins, pitying their weaknesses, and would
1092 XVI | rise from his seat with a placid look, and dismiss the meeting
1093 XVI | he always exhibited such placidity of countenance, as made
1094 XXXIII | MOTHER~AT the same time the plague made great ravages in those
1095 XXXVII | question, he replied as plainly, "When you shall bring my
1096 XIX | the garden which he had planted.~
1097 I | him not to indulge in idle play and follies, but to cultivate
1098 I | does not become you to be playing among children, when the
1099 I | he gave his mind to such plays and enjoyments alone as
1100 VII | God. ~He was affable and pleasant in his character; and when
1101 XVI | conclusion thereof without a plentiful shedding of tears. But whilst
1102 XI | and by the number three points out to us how long we must
1103 XXVI | which adorn the life of a pontiff. The miracles with which
1104 XVIII | turned the solid rock into a pool of water and stones into
1105 XVI | bishop himself. The blessed pope Gregory showed that he approved
1106 XXXIII | places which had been thickly populated, and some towns were wholly
1107 XX | APOLOGIZED TO THE MAN OF GOD POR THE INJURY WHICH THEY DID
1108 XLIII | whether dead or alive, still possess a healing power. ~
1109 XXIII | wish that she had in her possession some article that had belonged
1110 XIX | beg of you, some barley: possibly that may answer. If, however,
1111 XLV | arose, and in a standing posture spent the whole time of
1112 II | flour in milk, and apply the poultice warm to the swelling, and
1113 IX | mountains, which by their poverty and natural horrors deterred
1114 VII | God was stimulated by this powerful miracle to be more zealous
1115 XVI | modest virtues, and by daily practice at length brought them to
1116 XXXIX | soul, intent upon heavenly praises, sped his way to the joys
1117 X | arms, spent the night in praising God. When the dawn of day
1118 XXXII | CHAPTER XXXII~HOW, BY PRAYBR, HE RESTORED TO LIFE A YOUNG
1119 I | from the first a worthy preceptor to curb the sallies of his
1120 VII | fathers the acts of their predecessors, as an incentive to piety,
1121 XI | SAILING BY BAD WEATHER, HE PREDICTED THAT IT WOULD BE FINE ON
1122 XXIV | sublime on earth, yet thou preferrest the recesses of thy desert
1123 PREF | you bade me, my beloved, prefix to the book, which I have
1124 XXXVII | with illness, and began to prepare for the joy of everlasting
1125 XXXVII | the Abbess Verca, I have preserved it to wrap my corpse in.'
1126 XXXVII | man, who also at that time presided over the monastery of Lindisfarne,
1127 XXIV | Theodore of blessed memory presiding in the presence of God's
1128 V | to-morrow." But though the woman pressed him much, his love of religion
1129 XX | as possible, and do not presume to remain any longer in
1130 PREF | thereof, how that I have not presumed without minute investigation
1131 XLVI | return to the monastery; presuming in his faith, he trusted
1132 XX | warning to the perversity and pride of mankind. There were some
1133 XXIII | added to the lustre of her princely birth the brighter excellence
1134 XVI | rule. Wherefore all the principals of that place from him to
1135 VI | himself, for he was the prior of that same monastery. ~
1136 XLVI | rigidities, and, like a prisoner, rarely enjoyed the sun
1137 XXVII | and spoke to the queen in private, for it was the Sabbath-day. "
1138 IV | earn the glory of a higher prize, it chanced upon a time
1139 XXXVII | are weak, and talk of the probability of your dying, to let some
1140 VII | to see from what it might proceed, he saw three white loaves
1141 XLIV | A few days afterwards he proceeded in perfect health upon his
1142 V | himself a little, and to procure food for his horse rather
1143 XXV | will afford us the greatest profit both of mind and body. For
1144 XLV | confirmed. Where fore it is profitable to bear in mind that this
1145 XLI | hideously, he fell back into a profound sleep. In this state | he
1146 VI | he was a young man of a promising disposition, and obtained
1147 XVII | now thought worthy to be promoted to retirement and Divine
1148 PREF | have not delayed to render prompt obedience to your commands,
1149 PREF | written was by common consent pronounced worthy to be read without
1150 XXVII | concerning which he had prophesied the year before to his sister,
1151 VI | BORE TESTIMONY TO HIM BY PROPHESYING IN SPIRIT~MEANWHILE this
1152 PREF | verse, as well as in this prose work, which I offer to you,
1153 XXII | show the uncertainty of prosperity and adversity in this life:
1154 XXIV | years, and shall have been prosperous in all of these, he ought
1155 XIV | went out and threw himself prostrate on the ground before the
1156 VIII | true prophet, as the event proved. Among others, he told Cuthbert
1157 V | convinced that the food had been provided for him in the desert by
1158 XXXVII | his religious merit, and prudent conduct, and grave demeanour,
1159 XL | crowd of persons singing psalms, and placed in the church
1160 PREF | but still kept back from publication, I frequently submitted
1161 XVII | the other for domestic purposes. He finished the walls of
1162 XVI | course the sinner should pursue. He used vestments of the
1163 X | Whilst he was doing this, two quadrupeds, called otters, came up
1164 XXV | which he adorns by his good qualities. He also has the faculty
1165 XVIII | water, by a most remarkable quality, never overflowed its first
1166 XXXVII | swelling, and, from the quantity of blood that came from
1167 XIV | the wind was from the same quarter, so that the sparks from
1168 VIII | a copy containing seven quarto sheets: we can, with God'
1169 XXXVII | return. " To this plain question, he replied as plainly, "
1170 I | agile by nature, and of a quick mind, he often prevailed
1171 XXVII | the Lord 's day; and go quickly to the royal city, lest,
1172 XXIV | to my former solitude and quiet. But I must first request
1173 XXXVII | my service, he sat down quietly on the couch, and I sat
1174 XXV | in the morning appeared quite well when his master visited
1175 XX | reformation to the human race, these birds remained for
1176 XXVII | same disease increased, and raged so furiously from day to
1177 XXVI | gave food to the hungry, raiment to the shivering, and his
1178 I | silent, because he shall raise himself above himself."
1179 XVI | ecclesiastical officers of different ranks, observe the monastic rule
1180 II | deigned to send his archangel Raphael to restore the eyesight
1181 XXXI | others who saw or heard the rapidity of this wonderful cure were
1182 II | five in number, hurried rapidly out to sea, so that they
1183 XXVII | Now, when King Egfrid had rashly led his army against the
1184 XXXIII | time the plague made great ravages in those parts, so that
1185 V | long a time by means of ravens, when there was no man to
1186 XXI | intended building. They readily promised to bring it, and
1187 PREF | with your desire and my readiness to gratify it, it has seemed
1188 VI | stricter discipline; and in reading, working, watching, and
1189 XVI | follow his example, and recalled the _vicked and perverse
1190 VII | appointed to the office of receiving strangers, and he is said
1191 XXIV | yet thou preferrest the recesses of thy desert to this rank."-"
1192 II | the attendants, and was reclining in the open air, when he
1193 PREF | this book, and in pious recollection of that holy father lift
1194 XXIX | eternal, and soon receive a recompense for so heavy and long-continued
1195 XXIII | and she never expected to recover from her weakness, for she
1196 XV | priest to send to her, he reflected in his mind that it was
1197 XX | Lastly, as a pattern of reformation to the human race, these
1198 XXXVII | may flee to my corpse for refuge; and when they have thus
1199 XXXVI | should have had so much regard to themselves, as to correct
1200 XXXII | hands upon those that were regenerate in Christ; when, on a sudden,
1201 XVI | ancient customs to the new regular discipline. But he got the
1202 XVI | perverse from their errors to regularity of life. ~
1203 XXXV | OF WINE~WHEN he had gone regularly through the upper districts,
1204 XXII | and working, being all regulated according to his will; many
1205 XXIV | these to provide a person to reign over England. " She therefore
1206 XV | at the first touch of the rein, she had felt herself relieved
1207 XV | and will herself take the reins, as sound in mind as ever,
1208 XXIV | still in want: but thou rejectest the glory of the world,
1209 V | the authority on which his relation rested was no less than
1210 VIII | reason of his change of place relax his zeal in carrying on
1211 X | give him his blessing, and released him from all his trouble.
1212 XI | and there is no one to relieve us. Let us importune the
1213 VI | become, he made this single remark to the bystanders: " Behold
1214 XVI | their clerks, among other remarks he replied, " Because, my
1215 IX | had recourse to idolatrous remedies, as if by charms or amulets,
1216 XLI | no one could think of any remedy; when, behold, one of the
1217 XXI | them to bring. Then they, remembering what they had promised,
1218 XXXVII | wished to keep with him, to remind him if he did not make proper
1219 XLII | brethren with a wish to remove his bones, which they expected
1220 X | holy man was thus acquiring renown by his virtues and miracles,
1221 XXVII | let us do so. ' But when I repeated the words of the same admonition
1222 II | nobody knows. " At this reply, Cuthbert fell on his knees
1223 XLI | church in which his body reposes, on the south side. From
1224 XVI | accommodation from the brethren for reposing himself. For he either passed
1225 XVI | watching. Lastly, he would reprove the faintheartedness of
1226 XVI | as if he had suffered no repulse, he would use the same exhortations
1227 XL | should be exposed to be repulsed and destroyed, but after
1228 VI | he was moved by the great reputation of Boisil, a monk and priest
1229 XXXII | wood, sent to the bishop, requesting permission to bring him,
1230 II | the poor, and the men were rescued out of all their tribulations.
1231 VI | servant, for he had not yet resigned the dress and habits of
1232 IV | said he, "whilst we are resigning ourselves to sleep and idleness,
1233 XXIV | arrived there, although much resisting, he was overcome by the
1234 XVI | mind and body he was most resolute, and, amid the asperities
1235 XVI | the monastic rule in every respect, as well as the bishop himself.
1236 XXXIX | a few strong admonitions respecting peace and humility, and
1237 V | authority on which his relation rested was no less than that of
1238 XXVII | Romans, suddenly, as he was resting on his staff, he was disturbed
1239 XLV | power, and that the desired restoration of health would ascend upwards
1240 I | surprised that the same God can restrain the levity of a child by
1241 XIII | conviction that the devil never rests even for an hour from impeding
1242 XXVII | who was there awaiting the result of the war in her sister'
1243 XXVII | about to return. But he, resuming his discourse, said, "When
1244 XLII | undecayed, and seemed to retain their original freshness
1245 II | child of God, carefully retained in his mind what he had
1246 XIII | our old enemy coming to retard the work of salvation, and
1247 Bibl | London: Penguin, 1965, rev. 1988) - inlcudes Bede:
1248 XXIV | being willing openly to reveal the secret which she had
1249 II | doing, my brethren, in thus reviling those whom you see hurried
1250 VII | God was astonished, and revolving the circumstances in his
1251 VII | WAS THOUGHT WORTHY TO BE REWARDED WITH BREAD FROM HEAVEN~SOME
1252 XVII | tide, which the Greeks call rheuma, and then restored to the
1253 XVI | one to wear vestments of a rich or valuable colour, but
1254 XXVII | for it is not lawful to ride in a chariot on the Lord '
1255 XL | in a stone coffin on the right-hand side of the altar."~
1256 XLVI | practised still greater rigidities, and, like a prisoner, rarely
1257 XIX | abundantly. It no sooner began to ripen, than the birds came and
1258 I | his boyhood, who in more ripened age was destined perfectly
1259 XVI | who opposed him, he would rise from his seat with a placid
1260 X | until the Son of man be risen from the dead." When the
1261 XXVIII | marsh from which the Derwent rises, used to come to him every
1262 II | away from men the ancient rites and customs, and how the
1263 VI | to work: for he was of a robust frame arid of unimpaired
1264 Bibl | Catholic Saints and Beati, (Rockford IL: Tan, 1977) ~Webb. J.
1265 XXVII | fountain, formerly built by the Romans, suddenly, as he was resting
1266 XXI | intended to build a little room in his monastery, adapted
1267 XXXVI | days in the island by the roughness of the waves, and yet they
1268 XVI | give me pleasure; for, by rousing me from inactivity, he enables
1269 XXVII | day; and go quickly to the royal city, lest, perchance, the
1270 VI | youth studying the first rudiments of the monastic life in
1271 V | summer, were now deserted and ruinous. Into one of these he entered,
1272 XLVI | mercy showed by means of the ruins of the holy oratory, in
1273 XXIV | judgment of the Supreme Ruler, who, if he decreed that
1274 XXXVII | such before the secular rulers, and so you may have trouble
1275 I | apparently about three years old, runs up to Cuthbert, and in a
1276 XXIX | admonitions throughout the rural districts, cottages, and
1277 XIII | Nearly the whole multitude rushed forward, to extinguish the
1278 II | present, a man of the most rustic simplicity, and altogether
1279 XXVII | private, for it was the Sabbath-day. "Take care," said he, "
1280 XXIV | himself, above mentioned, sailed to the island, attended
1281 XI | SAILORS WERE PREVENTED FROM SAILING BY BAD WEATHER, HE PREDICTED
1282 XI | CHAPTER XI~HOW, WHEN THE SAILORS WERE PREVENTED FROM SAILING
1283 XL | sung, when the death of the sainted man was known; namely, that
1284 I | worthy preceptor to curb the sallies of his youthful mind. For,
1285 XXII | CHAPTER XXII~HOW HE GAVE SALUTARY ADMONITIONS TO MANY WHO
1286 XXV | had received the grateful salutations of all, the man pointed
1287 II | drew near to Cuthbert, and saluted him mildly, and asked him
1288 VI | them all. Like the mighty Samson of old, he carefully abstained
1289 I | testified of him as it was of Samuel, " Moreover Cuthbert knew
1290 XXIII | so ordered it, that the sanctity of the man of God might
1291 XLII | it on the pavement of the sanctuary. ~
1292 X | lying down before him on the sand, breathed upon his feet,
1293 XL | OF THE PSALM WHICH THEY SANG AT HIS DEATH, THE BRETHREN
1294 XXXVII | of that same oratory is a sarcophagus under the turf, which the
1295 XLVI | our minds and bodies, and, satisfying our desires after good things,
1296 XXII | exterminate me from this scene of trial, but were never
1297 XXXIX | way to the wickedness of schismatics, and so place a yoke upon
1298 XXIV | to gratify his love of science.~
1299 XXI | sea, where the waves had scooped a hollow, it was necessary
1300 XXIV | himself to literature in Scotland, suffering a voluntary exile,
1301 XXIV | literature, exiled to the Scottish islands. But she was aware
1302 XXVII | and that he spoke of this scourge being about to return. But
1303 XXIV | woman and skilled in sacred Scriptures, should call long the duration
1304 PREF | amended, and thus every scruple being utterly removed, I
1305 XXXVII | you wish to overcome my scruples, and to carry my body amongst
1306 II | that they looked like five sea-birds on the waves, the multitude
1307 XLVI | devoted to the Lord, the Searcher of the heart knows best.
1308 XIX | and sown, although the season was extraordinarily late;
1309 VII | strangers' cell, he found there seated a young person, whom he
1310 XXXIV | When they had taken their seats, at the hour of repast,
1311 XXVII | chariot very early on the second day of the week, for it
1312 XVII | accompanying him, to retire to the secrecy of solitude which he had
1313 XXVII | carelessness and a sense of security, we be led into temptation.'
1314 XV | her house; and ministering sedulously to him, testified openly
1315 | seem
1316 PREF | faithful fellow-servant, sends greeting. ~INASMUCH as you
1317 XXVII | through carelessness and a sense of security, we be led into
1318 XXI | were taught even by the senseless elements what obedience
1319 XL | mercy. He who considers the sequel also of the above-named
1320 XXXI | prefect afterwards fell seriously ill, so that his malady
1321 XXVII | the same monastery, the sermon being finished, he began
1322 XXXVI | to be patient, and on the seventh day came out to console
1323 XLVI | and, at present more than seventy years old, is awaiting the
1324 XXXIV | former solitary life, that by shaking off the cares of this life
1325 | shalt
1326 XLI | was thrown, of a square shape, surrounded with wood, and
1327 XVI | thereof without a plentiful shedding of tears. But whilst he
1328 VIII | containing seven quarto sheets: we can, with God's help,
1329 XXXII | ON A JOURNEY~As this holy shepherd of Christ's flock was going
1330 XVII | helmet of salvation, the shield of faith, and the sword
1331 XXVI | the hungry, raiment to the shivering, and his course was marked
1332 XXVI | The miracles with which he shone forth to the world bore
1333 XIII | storm of wind and thunder shook the sky. Nearly the whole
1334 XLI | altogether lost his reason, and shouted and cried aloud, and tried
1335 XXIV | me even this. " But he, shuddering at the adjuration, and yet
1336 XXIV | nevertheless, I cannot shun the judgment of the Supreme
1337 XLI | tongue, closed his mouth, and shutting his eyes also, which before
1338 XLV | iniquities, and heals all our sicknesses. The poor man begged of
1339 XVII | consequently, surrounded on all sides by the deep and boundless
1340 VI | servant of God, the pious Sigfrid, for he was standing by
1341 XXXVII | to my salutation with a sigh. ' My lord bishop,' said
1342 VI | Yarrow, and amid the last sighs of his fainting body thirsting
1343 XXX | Cuthbert effected a cure similar to this, of which there
1344 VIII | sought therein only that simple faith which operates by
1345 II | a man of the most rustic simplicity, and altogether incapable
1346 XXVI | to recall those who were sinfully rejoicing to that sorrow
1347 XVI | all the priests, deacons, singers, readers, and other ecclesiastical
1348 PREF | deserve both at present with singleness of mind to long for and
1349 XVI | example what course the sinner should pursue. He used vestments
1350 XVI | he was fervid to correct sinners, he was gentle in the spirit
1351 XXIV | over to an island which is situated in the mouth of the river
1352 XXI | placed it exactly in the situation where the proposed chamber
1353 XXI | shore a beam of the required size, and placed it exactly in
1354 XLV | care, and used all their skill in medicine, but without
1355 XXIV | being a wise woman and skilled in sacred Scriptures, should
1356 XIII | wind and thunder shook the sky. Nearly the whole multitude
1357 XVI | hands, thus beguiling his sleepiness by labour; or, perhaps,
1358 V | huts, which, having been slightly constructed in the summer,
1359 XVI | great neatness, nor yet too slovenly. Wherefore, even to this
1360 PREF | so you also may not be slow to confer on me the reward
1361 XX | says, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and
1362 XLI | morning, rising up from his slumber, free from his madness,
1363 XXXVII | might be left without any society or aid of man, and suffer
1364 XVII | put to flight. ~Christ's soldier, therefore, having thus,
1365 XXXVII | CONCERNING HIS BURIAL~THE solemn day of the nativity of our
1366 XVI | whilst officiating in the solemnity of the mass, he never could
1367 XXVII | to go out of my cabin and solemnize with them this joyful and
1368 XXVII | admonish them that we should be solicitous in prayer and watchfulness,
1369 XVIII | beseech Him who turned the solid rock into a pool of water
1370 XLV | of the midnight or matin song in thanksgiving to God.
1371 XI | addressed them with cheerful and soothing language, as he was accustomed: "
1372 XXIII | in to see her. Seeing her sorely afflicted, she brought the
1373 XXVII | turning his countenance sorrowfully to the earth, he raised
1374 XIX | husbandry, and some wheat to sow; but when he had sown the
1375 XIX | CHAPTER XIX~HOW HE SOWED A FIELD WITH BARLEY, AND
1376 XXIV | You behold this great and spacious sea, how it aboundeth in
1377 II | shall pray for them: may God spare none of them ! for they
1378 XIV | same quarter, so that the sparks from the kindled thatch
1379 VI | his horse and travelling spear to a servant, for he had
1380 XXXIX | intent upon heavenly praises, sped his way to the joys of the
1381 XLII | shall live amid the starry sphere," &c. ~When the bishop had
1382 XX | God digging in the field, spread out its wings in a pitiable
1383 XVIII | found it full of water, springing up from within. Wherefore
1384 XXIX | she lay, as if dead, and sprinkled her and the bed, and poured
1385 XLI | memorable water was thrown, of a square shape, surrounded with wood,
1386 XXXVII | cleanse his servant from every stain of earthly weakness, and
1387 XVI | and whilst he exhorted the standers-by to lift up their hearts
1388 XXIV | a short time when death stands at his door ! " ~On hearing
1389 XLI | before were bloodshot and staring hideously, he fell back
1390 XLII | just shall live amid the starry sphere," &c. ~When the bishop
1391 XXXVII | so much during my whole stay in the island, as they have
1392 XXXVIII| went in accordingly, and stayed till the ninth hour: when
1393 XXVII | Apostle, to watch, remain stedfast in the faith, act manfully,
1394 XLVI | sought to imitate. For he steeped a piece of the skin above
1395 Bibl | Life of Cuthbert, Eddius Stephanus: Life of Wilfrid: Bede:
1396 XLV | came over him; and as the stillness of night advanced, the man
1397 XXXI | wonderful cure were thereby stirred up to praise the holiness
1398 XXXI | bread no sooner touched his stomach than all his inward pain
1399 XL | holy Apostle Peter, in a stone coffin on the right-hand
1400 XXXIV | the table. The priest, who stood by and ministered to him,
1401 XLIV | father, and, with his head stooping towards the ground, prayed
1402 XXXV | authority of one of them, who stopped some time in our monastery
1403 XXII | memory of those who were straitened in circumstances, and show
1404 VI | what an illustrious man the stranger would become, he made this
1405 XV | prevailed against the false stratagems of the devil, now let us
1406 IV | on a sudden he saw a long stream of light break through the
1407 VI | surpass them by observing stricter discipline; and in reading,
1408 XLV | in the tomb, and having stripped the poor man's feet naked,
1409 XX | how earnestly they should strive after humility, when a dumb
1410 IX | they were able to avert a stroke inflicted upon them by the
1411 XXVI | man from the hand of the stronger, and the poor and destitute
1412 XXXIX | beware of those persons who strove against these virtues, and
1413 VI | was at that time a youth studying the first rudiments of the
1414 XXXVII | his rest, and had as usual subdued both his body and mind with
1415 XXIV | which there is nothing more sublime on earth, yet thou preferrest
1416 PREF | publication, I frequently submitted it for perusal and for correction
1417 XXI | XXI ~HOW EVEN THE SEA WAS SUBSERVIENT TO HIS WANTS ~BUT not only
1418 VIII | themselves with minute and subtle questions. After their seven
1419 XXIV | with the Picts, and was succeeded on the throne by his illegitimate
1420 I | the first year of boyhood succeeding to infancy, he gave his
1421 II | the river, and tried to succour those who were on board
1422 I | of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise ! " ~
1423 XIII | multitude, seeing this, were suffused with ingenuous blushes,
1424 XXVII | perceived that I would not have suggested this so earnestly for no
1425 PREF | Some faults were, at their suggestion, carefully amended, and
1426 XVII | empire, and houses therein suitable to his city. The building
1427 V | slightly constructed in the summer, were now deserted and ruinous.
1428 XXVIII | servant of God, Cuthbert, was summoned to the same city of Lugubalia,
1429 XLVI | prisoner, rarely enjoyed the sun or air, the malady increased,
1430 XLIV | after mass," (for it was Sunday,) "to the body of the holy
1431 V | cannot get through it before sunset. Let me entreat you, therefore,
1432 XIII | harming you, prevent you by superfluous cares from hearing the word
1433 II | they bent their knees, and supplicated the Lord for those whom
1434 XXVIII | of a long sickness might supply what merit he had less than
1435 XXXIII | before, and she was now supporting another at the point of
1436 IX | had done amiss; for they supposed that it was impossible to
1437 XXIV | shun the judgment of the Supreme Ruler, who, if he decreed
1438 XXXIV | changed so wonderfully: he has surely seen something which we
1439 XVIII | taken out; so that it never surpassed or fell short of the daily
1440 I | heart. Nor ought we to be surprised that the same God can restrain
1441 VII | so, he perceived a most surprising odour and sweetness; and
1442 XVIII | him who used it for his sustenance. ~Now when Cuthbert had,
1443 XXV | faculty of relating in the sweetest manner the virtues of the
1444 II | sudden pain, and began to swell into a large tumour; the
1445 XLVI | swelling and a red patch. The symptoms of this deformity had become
1446 XVIII | washing of feet, which then takes place at the Lord 's Supper.
1447 XXXVII | father, as you are weak, and talk of the probability of your
1448 Bibl | and Beati, (Rockford IL: Tan, 1977) ~Webb. J.F., trans.,
1449 VII | replied, that he could not tarry, for the home to which he
1450 VIII | speedily accomplished the task; for they sought therein
1451 XVI | was fatigued by the bitter taunts of those who opposed him,
1452 XXVII | the contest is decided ! " Tbe presbyter, who was standing
1453 I | has appointed you to be a teacher of virtue even to those
1454 PREF | two days by the elders and teachers of your congregation, and
1455 XLI | cried aloud, and tried to tear in pieces with his teeth
1456 XVI | this exercise relieved the tediousness of psalmody and watching.
1457 XI | they come to land, than a tempest arose, and prevented them
1458 II | and to defend God's own temple.~CHAPTER III~HOW HE CHANGED
1459 XLVI | third person who became tenant of the same place and its
1460 IV | upon a time that he was tending a flock of sheep entrusted
1461 XXVIII | time of leaving my earthly tenement is at hand." Upon hearing
1462 XXXII | They therefore pitched tents for him in the road, and
1463 XXIV | immediately, but at the termination of the winter which was
1464 XXIV | and adjured him, bv the terrible and sacred name of our heavenly
1465 XLI | Lindisfarne, was vexed so terribly by an evil spirit, that
1466 X | him on the heights, was so terrified that he could hardly reach
1467 XXVII | Picts, and devastated their territories with most atrocious cruelty,
1468 XLI | For a certain boy, in the territory of Lindisfarne, was vexed
1469 XV | and limbs, caused great terror to all who saw or heard
1470 XX | grease their shoes with; testifying to them how earnestly they
1471 XXV | was infirm, saying, " I thank God, most holy father, that
1472 XLV | midnight or matin song in thanksgiving to God. In the morning he
1473 IV | forthwith offered up praise and thanksgivings to the Lord, and called
1474 XV | HE CAST OUT A DEV1L FROM THB PREFECT'S WIFE, EVEN BEFORE
1475 | thence
1476 XXIV | a full synod, Archbishop Theodore of blessed memory presiding
1477 VIII | every day, and meditate thereon as far as we are able. "
1478 XLVI | water, and washed his face therewith; whereupon the swelling
1479 XXXIII | and places which had been thickly populated, and some towns
1480 VI | sighs of his fainting body thirsting for a happy entrance into
1481 XXXV | afternoon repose, he said he was thirsty, and asked for drink. They
1482 XXXVI | his time in extracting the thorns of the flesh, and kindle
1483 XIII | lest the devil, who has a thousand ways of harming you, prevent
1484 XIII | these words, he resumed the thread of his discourse, and immediately
1485 XXII | of the adversary like the threads of a spider's web. "How
1486 XL | after a demonstration of his threatening anger should again be protected
1487 XXIX | healing draught down her throat. Oh, wonderful and extraordinary
1488 XXIV | and was succeeded on the throne by his illegitimate brother
1489 | throughout
1490 XV | most pitiable cries, and, throwing about her arms and limbs,
1491 XIII | and a storm of wind and thunder shook the sky. Nearly the
1492 | thy
1493 VII | brother, eat and refresh thyself, whilst I go and fetch some
1494 V | these he entered, and having tied his horse to the wall, placed
1495 XLVI | COVERING OF THE WALL OF TIIE MAN OF GOD'S HOUSE ~NOR
1496 XLVI | from its foundation the time-worn oratory. This being done,
1497 II | restore the eyesight of Tobit. If any one think it incredible
1498 VI | that he should receive the tonsure, and be enrolled among the
1499 XXV | there is one of our servants tormented with the worst infirmity,
1500 XLIV | intercession may save me from these torments, so that I may either return
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