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  1 Text|           rest in the Lord, on the 14th day of January, in the church
  2 Text|            Sigfrid's birthday, the 23rd of August; and on the same
  3  Aut|            modern feast day is May 25. He was one of the most
  4  Aut|           Author ~Bede was born in 673, in Northumberland, became
  5 Text|           on the left bank, in the 674th year of our Lord's incarnation,
  6 Text|            in the year of our Lord 715, between three and four
  7 Text|             written sometime after 716, given here complete in
  8  Aut|         monk and died at Jarrow in 735. His modern feast day is
  9 Text|             until they came to the 82nd, which begins, "God, who
 10 Text|        followers, enjoining him to abandon the travel which he had
 11 Text|        holy father, whilst others, abandoning their first intentions,
 12 Text|         nuptials, that he might be able to follow the Lamb bright
 13 Text|            time Alfrid, son of the above-named King Oswy, being about to
 14 Text|          having also observed such abstinence in meat and drink, and such
 15 Text|           to the monastery, Bishop Acca was sent for to confirm
 16 Text|           successfully, as before, accomplished a third voyage from Britain
 17 Text|           a youth of good promise, accomplishing the journey which he had
 18  Aut|          his time. Among his other accomplishments was in becoming the only
 19 Text|     sequence thereof, observe more accurately the rules of monastic discipline. ~
 20 Text|           of Christ, Witmer, whose acquaintance with every kind of learning,
 21 Text|          of the monastery, but had acquired much experience in the various
 22 Text|           to Rome, for the sake of acquiring instruction, and offering
 23 Text|         were assisted even in this act of fraternal love. After
 24 Text|           acute intellect, bold in action, experienced in judgment,
 25 Text|        which Abbot Benedict had so actively begun under his equally
 26     | actually
 27 Text|           of great perseverance of acute intellect, bold in action,
 28 Text|         handicraft, which was well adapted for enclosing the lanterns
 29 Text|           doubled in extent For he added three Pandects of a new
 30 Text|           manners, and with a soul addicted to no false pleasures. He
 31 Text|            reign of Osred, paid an additional price, and received a territory
 32 Text|      lighted the frankincense, and addressed a prayer at the altar, he
 33 Text|      Wighard by name, who had been adequately taught by the Roman disciples
 34 Text|           he would then have these administered, not through an interpreter,
 35 Text|         style, which he had always admired. So much zeal did he show
 36 Text|        life, and obtained from him admission into the heavenly kingdom,
 37 Text|         them his last farewell, he admonished them to preserve love towards
 38 Text|        name; having the mind of an adult even from his childhood,
 39 Text|          like one of them, gentle, affable, and kind to all." Whenever
 40 Text|            a baneful and incurable affection of the lungs. ~Not long
 41 Text|          this prosperity, he found afflictions also awaiting his return.
 42 Text|           in the same place as the aforesaid abbots, whose life he had
 43 Text|           against whom, with God's aid, no enemy could prevail.
 44 Text|            and sitting in the open air, sent for all the brethren,
 45 Text|           which his pains might be alleviated, and his depressed soul
 46 Text|      reader, and cause him to read aloud, as an example for himself,
 47     | although
 48 Text|         through the death of their ambassadors, called a council, and appointed
 49 Text|         might have before them the amiable countenance of Christ and
 50 Text|         Gospel rule, those who did amiss: he forgave all of them
 51 Text|            into the company of the angels. Lastly, he was the minister
 52 Text|        from a noble lineage of the Angles, and by corresponding dignity
 53 Text|       thorns of his former secular anxieties may be consumed by the fire
 54 Text|      reached Rome; and he was also anxious that neither his friends
 55 Text|         dignity of bishop. Now the Apostolic Father, that the embassy
 56 Text|            God has condescended to appoint so glorious a vessel of
 57 Text|         foresaw clear signs of his approaching death, he still remained
 58 Text|        during my travels, and most approved of, and I copied these institutions
 59 Text|           of his Church to send as archbishop into Britain. This was Theodore,
 60 Text|            back with him John, the archchanter of the church t of St. Peter,
 61 Text|          his temporal vocation and arms, devoting himself to spiritual
 62 Text|           St. Paul's. Benedict had arranged this purchase with the same
 63 Text|           finish. For, among other arrangements which he found it necessary
 64 Text|           and afterwards, upon his arrival, when he should begin to
 65 Text|           of glass, (more properly artificers,) who were at this time
 66 Text|           received there; Theodore ascended his episcopal throne, and
 67 Text|           into Gaul, and no sooner asked than he obtained and carried
 68 Text|        which was Easter Sunday, an assembly was held, consisting of
 69 Text|            and fair to look on. He ate of the same food as the
 70 Text|            and submission. When he attained to the name and dignity
 71 Text|      indeed, though he had been an attendant on King Egfrid, and had
 72 Text|            and doctrines should be attended to. "And I tell you of a
 73 Text|            the venerable Benedict, augmented the territory which he had
 74 Text|            s birthday, the 23rd of August; and on the same day Divine
 75 Text|          time: together with their aunt Leonella, they left behind
 76 Text|            and his brethren on the authority of the elders; and having
 77 Text|           was almost impossible to avoid weeping to see part of his
 78 Text|          sick man, strong in mind, awaited his departure from death
 79 Text|          he found afflictions also awaiting his return. The venerable
 80     | away
 81 Text|            prudent father Benedict bad laid down for himself and
 82 Text|            employed himself in the bakehouse, the garden, the kitchen,
 83 Text|          heart was tempered with a baneful and incurable affection
 84 Text|           birth, and born again by baptism at the same time: together
 85 Text|           are full, to scatter the beams of his love on all your
 86 Text|       parts are seeking with me to bear the pleasant yoke of Christ,
 87 Text|            as, for instance, Isaac bearing the wood for his own sacrifice,
 88 Text|       monasteries. Moreover, for a beautiful volume of the Geographers
 89     | becomes
 90     | becoming
 91 Text|        from the time when Benedict began to build his monastery in
 92 Text|          those who after the flesh beget children of the flesh, must
 93     | begin
 94     | beginning
 95 Text|            came to the 82nd, which begins, "God, who shall be like
 96 Text|           venerable life, blessed (Benedictus) both in grace and in name;
 97 Text|         minds might revolve on the benefits of our Lord's incarnation,
 98     | besides
 99 Text|           and I pray that they may bestow upon my unworthy self, and
100 Text|            Wherefore, my brethren, beware, and never choose an abbot
101  Aut|         but he wrote many others - biblical commentaries and hagiography
102 Text|           He did this on Sigfrid's birthday, the 23rd of August; and
103 Text|            chilled by the winter's blasts, but a day of eternal felicity
104 Text|       consumed by the fire of zeal blazing forth from that spiritual
105 Text|           abbot with the customary blessings, in presence of the bishop.
106 Text|            of our Lord s flesh and blood was given him.as a viaticum
107 Text|         adorn the central nave, on boarding placed from one wall to
108 Text|      Apostles, which he exultingly boasted, that when a youth he had
109 Text|          like some men, a cause of boasting and despising others, but
110 Text|          small degree depressed by bodily infirmity, and the innocency
111 Text|   perseverance of acute intellect, bold in action, experienced in
112 Text|            of voice, of a kind and bountiful disposition, and fair to
113 Text|             Huetbert, who from his boyhood had not only been bred up
114 Text|          boyhood had not only been bred up in the regular discipline
115 Text|            able to follow the Lamb bright with the of chastity in
116 Text|        desert, than that my carnal brother, who, as we know, walks
117 Text|             in whose honour he was building it, that within a year from
118 Text|         soldier he might sustain a burden otherwise too heavy for
119 Text|            to relate his death and burial; and others, again, lingered
120 Text|          when he went forth On the business of the monastery, if he
121 Text|           he took especial care to buy and bring home from foreign
122 Text|         fourteen days, besides the canonical hours of prayer, he never
123 Text|         discipline; but was rather careful, out of his natural habits
124 Text|       merited to do this, you will carefully fulfil towards him the last
125 Text|           be free from all worldly cares before his death, and so
126 Text|         for that, although he hath caused us much sorrow, lamentation,
127 Text|          the solemnity of the mass celebrated therein. When the work was
128 Text|          the steps and holding the censer in his hand. Amid the prayers
129 Text|           he intended to adorn the central nave, on boarding placed
130 Text|           a horse litter, the holy ceremony of the mass was offered
131 Text|        praise. Others clung to the chamber in which the sick man, strong
132 Text|       spirits, the psalm which was chanted for him is a proof. For
133 Text|            which he hung round the chapel of Our Lady in the larger
134 Text|          and thus his holy spirit, chastened and tried by the lengthened
135 Text|            Lamb bright with the of chastity in the heavenly kingdoms:
136 Text|            of disquietude over his cheerful countenance. Oftentimes,
137 Text|         sorrows by death, He might cherish them for ever in heavenly
138 Text|       placing both together in one chest, but separated by a partition,
139 Text|          of an adult even from his childhood, surpassing his age by his
140 Text|          to his end. Night came on chilled by the winter's blasts,
141 Text|            was most solicitous, in choosing an abbot, lest high birth,
142 Text|     prayers. At which time also he chose priest Easterwine to be
143 Text|         was taken ill, and foresaw clear signs of his approaching
144 Text|          We recommend to your holy clemency, most be loved father and
145 Text|       other things, he brought two cloaks, all of silk, and of incomparable
146 Text|            of his church, with the cloisters and dining-rooms. This was
147 Text|          not to offend and bring a cloud of disquietude over his
148 Text|      out-pouring of praise. Others clung to the chamber in which
149 Text|          whom the brethren and his co-abbot Ceolfrid had chosen to be
150 Text|           been his only companion, coadjutor, and teacher of the monastic
151 Text|      purchase for him. When he had come home, he determined to go
152  Aut|       Englishman in Dante's Divine Comedy. His most important work
153 Text|          concurrence, and, indeed, command, built the monastery of
154 Text|            much weeping and prayer commended themselves and theirs to
155  Aut|       wrote many others - biblical commentaries and hagiography in particular. ~
156 Text|         and those who were present communicating with him, he prepared for
157 Text|            them sing psalms in two companies, would himself sing with
158 Text|          board the vessel with his companions. The deacons of the Church
159 Text|   assistance of Benedict, founded, completed, and ruled the monastery
160 Text|            the work was drawing to completion, he sent messengers to Gaul
161 Text|          by the same King Egfrid's concurrence, and, indeed, command, built
162 Text|          their souls, that God has condescended to appoint so glorious a
163 Text|        Apostle St. Paul, with this condition, that the same concord and
164 Text|            the monastery, the holy confessor found rest in the Lord,
165 Text|        Bishop Acca was sent for to confirm the election with his blessing.
166 Text|      exhibited before a synod, was confirmed by the signatures of the
167 Text|           they themselves shall be confounded and routed, and shall perish
168 Text|           abbot; the last eight in conjunction with Easterwine, Sigfrid,
169 Text|     monastery, ably describing the connexion of the Old and New Testament;
170 Text|       sickness, that when they had conquered their sorrows by death,
171 Text|        same way as earthly parents consider their eldest as the principal
172 Text|      Sunday, an assembly was held, consisting of all the brethren of St.
173 Text|            this loss he found some consolation in the good and reverend
174 Text|           secular anxieties may be consumed by the fire of zeal blazing
175 Text|           mind in both, such their contempt for human grandeur, that
176 Text|    excellent manners, of wonderful continence, and one in whom the virtues
177 Text|            see part of his company continuing their journey without the
178 Text|            of that nation, Egfrid, contributed the land; and Biscop, for
179 Text|          as if recently incited to conversation with the heavenly life,
180 Text|         towards one another and to correct, according to the Gospel
181 Text|      lineage of the Angles, and by corresponding dignity of mind worthy to
182 Text|        their ambassadors, called a council, and appointed one of his
183 Text|       fraternal love. After taking counsel with Sigfrid and the other
184 Text|          given, as a colleague and counsellor, a man equally strenuous
185 Text|            of a kinsman and fellow countryman. But Wig hard, on coming
186 Text|            of the Lord. He was the cousin of his own abbot Benedict;
187 Text|           milking the and ewes and cows, and employed himself in
188 Text|        lighted tapers and a golden crucifix. Having crossed the river,
189 Text|         prayers of the Litany, the cry of sorrow resounded from
190 Text|         him be made abbot with the customary blessings, in presence of
191 Text|      Alfrid, in the village called Daldun. ~But Ceolfrid having now
192  Aut|    becoming the only Englishman in Dante's Divine Comedy. His most
193 Text|           in the good and reverend deacon, Sigfrid, whom the brethren
194 Text|           with his companions. The deacons of the Church went on board
195 Text|         years; so that when he was dead in all his lower extremities,
196 Text|     Ceolfrid, abbot of St. Paul's, dear to him not by relationship
197 Text|          with a donative that will decay, that he might serve under
198 Text|          sorrow at the tomb of the deceased among strangers speaking
199 Text|          from foreign parts. ~Some decorations and muniments there were
200 Text|        Benedict the Great, and the decrees of our order, with common
201 Text|     vanquished sin and wrought the deeds of virtue, yielded to the
202 Text|           This was Theodore, a man deep in all secular and ecclesiastical
203 Text|        Ceolfrid, the supporter and defender of our spiritual liberty
204 Text|            by their voices for the deficiency of his own. ~Now both the
205 Text|          the mind were in no small degree depressed by bodily infirmity,
206 Text|      opposing factions, it-fell by degrees, and, thus shorn of its
207 Text|           all honoured him, should delay his departure, or give him
208 Text|            and neither impeded nor delayed by unclean spirits, the
209 Text|       others, one which gave great delight to all, he took up the bones
210 Text|        account. ~Thus King Egfrid, delighted by the virtues and zealous
211 Text|            false pleasures. He was descended from a noble lineage of
212 Text|         church and monastery, ably describing the connexion of the Old
213 Text|         after he had disclosed his design to the brethren, he set
214 Text|        that, when they expressed a desire to see one another before
215 Text|            that rest which he long desired; whilst he was in his old
216 Text|            a cause of boasting and despising others, but a motive for
217 Text|         are always endeavouring to destroy and disperse the church
218 Text|        temporal vocation and arms, devoting himself to spiritual warfare,
219 Text|       whilst he was in his old age devoutly returning to that threshold
220 Text|           own untaught heart which dictated this rule to you. I learnt
221 Text|        came to pass, that he might die before he reached Rome;
222 Text|            up to pray, nor without difficulty lift up his voice to the
223 Text|             with the cloisters and dining-rooms. This was done, and they
224 Text|            time, and he there fore directed his course to his native
225 Text|     adequately taught by the Roman disciples of the blessed Pope Gregory
226 Text|         the third day after he had disclosed his design to the brethren,
227 Text|         enjoy everlasting life: he disdained to submit to carnal nuptials,
228 Text|        cease to give thanks to the dispensation of Divine wisdom, as do
229 Text|        endeavouring to destroy and disperse the church of Christ, and
230 Text|           neglect to be injured or dispersed. But on one point he was
231 Text|          at Rome and elsewhere. He displayed the holy volumes and relics
232 Text|            of a kind and bountiful disposition, and fair to look on. He
233 Text|        offend and bring a cloud of disquietude over his cheerful countenance.
234 Text| neighbouring inhabitants, who were dissolved in tears at the loss of
235 Text|          When the king, his father diverted him from this intention,
236 Text|          no man should ever try to divide these two monasteries, which
237 Text|          be remembered,-"A kingdom divided against itself shall be
238 Text|        prefer him to the others in dividing out their inheritance." ~
239 Text|         rather probity of life and doctrines should be attended to. "
240 Text|            temporal warfare with a donative that will decay, that he
241 Text|        equally zealous care became doubled in extent For he added three
242 Text|           which, though tending no doubt to the perfection of Christian
243 Text|         therein. When the work was drawing to completion, he sent messengers
244 Text|        drink, and such humility in dress, as are uncommon among rulers;
245 Text|        such abstinence in meat and drink, and such humility in dress,
246 Text|            regular discipline with due solicitude; and when he
247     | each
248 Text|           no purpose. Such was his eagerness to depart, that on the third
249 Text|            suitable space of time. Early in the morning, therefore,
250 Text|           under the true King, and earn an everlasting kingdom in
251 Text|           of wisdom whom it had so earnestly wished for, and to be to
252 Text|        Most Highest over the whole earth. Wherefore it was a manifest
253 Text|            own good, abandoned the earthy tenement of the flesh, and
254 Text|           the third day, which was Easter Sunday, an assembly was
255 Text|        which was necessary for the edification of his church, he commanded
256 Text|          foreordained of Christ to educate for Him in spiritual doctrine
257 Text|       choose for themselves a more efficient abbot out of their own number,
258 Text|            his wish. At that time, Egbert, king of Kent, had sent
259 Text|            train, to the number of eighty, but also of the neighbouring
260 Text|         Peter's and several of the elder monks from the monastery
261 Text|            on the authority of the elders; and having shown the most
262 Text|     earthly parents consider their eldest as the principal one of
263 Text|            martyrs are Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus. They were
264     | elsewhere
265 Text|         Apostolic Father, that the embassy of the faithful might not
266 Text|     merchant-vessel arrived, which enabled him to gratify his wish.
267 Text|         which was well adapted for enclosing the lanterns of the church,
268 Text|           or spiritual, are always endeavouring to destroy and disperse
269 Text|           a short interval, having ended the nine o'clock psalm,
270 Text|         the text is this; that the enemies of the Christian name, whether
271 Text|           whom, with God's aid, no enemy could prevail. In the sixteenth
272 Text|            with the most wonderful energy in punishing the wicked,
273  Aut|           was in becoming the only Englishman in Dante's Divine Comedy.
274 Text|        bishop, with his followers, enjoining him to abandon the travel
275 Text|          receive a hundredfold and enjoy everlasting life: he disdained
276 Text|        nevertheless arrived at the enjoyment of that rest which he long
277 Text|         grandeur, that the one, on entering the monastery, did not expect
278 Text|            he commanded to be kept entire, and neither by neglect
279 Text|       Easterwine, which lay in the entrance porch of St. Peter's, and
280 Text|         spiritual furnace. We next entreat your fatherly love, that,
281 Text|       possession of such as he had entrusted his friends to purchase
282 Text|       departure from death and his entry into eternal life. A portion
283 Text|       there; Theodore ascended his episcopal throne, and Benedict took
284 Text|      inhabitants, who was also the era's greatest historian. It
285 Text|         tenement of the flesh, and escaped in freedom to the glory
286 Text|       procured in England, he took especial care to buy and bring home
287 Text|       hides of land out of his own estates, and ordered a monastery
288 Text|         reminded them also of that evangelical maxim, ever worthy to be
289 Text|         appointed to be read every evening, was recited by a priest
290 Text|          he, "in the choice of two evils, it would be much more tolerable
291 Text|         winnowing, milking the and ewes and cows, and employed himself
292 Text|           the last judgment, might examine their hearts the more strictly
293 Text|          of Holy Scripture of most excellent manners, of wonderful continence,
294     | except
295 Text|      skilled in Holy Scripture, in exchange, a grant of land of eight
296 Text|          proper forms of spiritual exercise by his life and doctrine.
297 Text|        chanting, in which he daily exercised himself, together with the
298 Text|           others, but a motive for exercising nobility of mind also, as
299 Text|        back to Britain, and, being exhibited before a synod, was confirmed
300 Text|             but by the request and exhortation, of King Egfrid, and by
301 Text|             in praises to God, and exhortations to the brethren. He urged
302 Text|           concord and unity should exist for ever between the two;
303 Text|    entering the monastery, did not expect any notice of honour or
304 Text|         returned with the greatest expedition to Rome, in the time of
305 Text|   monastery, but had acquired much experience in the various duties of
306 Text|           and profane, was equally extensive, he made a gift of it for
307 Text|     patience of Job, or some other extract from Scripture, by which
308 Text|           memory; and there having extracted no little sweetness of whole
309 Text|          was dead in all his lower extremities, his upper and vital members,
310 Text|            holy Apostles, which he exultingly boasted, that when a youth
311 Text|          it was torn into opposing factions, it-fell by degrees, and,
312 Text|          of the faithful might not fail through the death of their
313 Text|         bountiful disposition, and fair to look on. He ate of the
314 Text|         with a soul addicted to no false pleasures. He was descended
315 Text|        Whilst giving them his last farewell, he admonished them to preserve
316 Text|            any; but the young man, faring like the rest, took pleasure
317 Text|            with prayer, hymns, and fasting, to seek of the Lord a new
318 Text|      furnace. We next entreat your fatherly love, that, though we have
319 Text|            brought, and found such favour in the eyes of the king,
320 Text|           upon his journey. For he feared, what actually came to pass,
321  Aut|          Jarrow in 735. His modern feast day is May 25. He was one
322 Text|         brethren, and, as his kind feelings prompted him, gave to each
323 Text|       blasts, but a day of eternal felicity succeeded, of serenity and
324     | few
325 Text|           and four o'clock, in the fields of the city before mentioned,
326 Text|            not long after made his fifth voyage from Britain to Rome,
327 Text|        ever from foreign invasion. Fifthly, he brought with him pictures
328 Text|            to the other; also some figures from ecclesiastical history
329 Text|           of Christ, that they may find rest to their souls, that
330 Text|            less zeal took pains to finish. For, among other arrangements
331 Text|            they came, and not only finished the work required, but taught
332 Text|           former privilege was con firmed publicly by the king and
333 Text|           of doctrine may be found fittest for this office; and whomsoever
334 Text|            monastery of the Twins, followed by a large number of his
335 Text|        look on. He ate of the same food as the other brethren, and
336 Text|            this time, and he there fore directed his course to his
337 Text|       children in the flesh, being foreordained of Christ to educate for
338 Text|        after he was taken ill, and foresaw clear signs of his approaching
339 Text|          Now that we have had this foretaste of the life of the venerable
340 Text|            those who did amiss: he forgave all of them whatever wrong
341 Text|        from the head, nor the head forget the body by which it lives,
342 Text|        which purpose, after he had formed the rule for his monastery,
343 Text|            his brethren the proper forms of spiritual exercise by
344 Text|          eyes of the king, that he forthwith gave him seventy hides of
345 Text|           to speak more correctly, forty-three,-for, from the time when
346 Text|            assistance of Benedict, founded, completed, and ruled the
347 Text|          Gaul, and these the pious founder determined to fetch from
348 Text|           space of one hundred and fourteen days, besides the canonical
349 Text|            when he had lighted the frankincense, and addressed a prayer
350 Text|       assisted even in this act of fraternal love. After taking counsel
351 Text|        only he might for a time be free from all worldly cares before
352 Text|          the flesh, and escaped in freedom to the glory of everlasting
353 Text|            two abbots at once. His frequent travelling for the benefit
354 Text|            without sleeping, would frequently call a reader, and cause
355 Text|        eight hides, near the river Fresca, for the monastery of St.
356 Text|      before his death. ~He died on Friday, the 25th of September,
357 Text|          of the West Saxons, whose friendship and services he had already
358 Text|           this, you will carefully fulfil towards him the last offices;
359 Text|          forth from that spiritual furnace. We next entreat your fatherly
360     | further
361 Text|       youthful zeal and wisdom, he gained many privileges for the
362 Text|            tried by the lengthened gallings of the lash, operating for
363 Text|      himself in the bakehouse, the garden, the kitchen, and in all
364 Text|            his care, had died of a general pestilence. But for this
365 Text|     amongst them like one of them, gentle, affable, and kind to all."
366 Text|            beautiful volume of the Geographers which Benedict had bought
367 Text|           And because he could not get up to pray, nor without
368 Text|          at a price or received as gifts from his friends. On his
369 Text|            the translation by J.A. Giles, is both a short account
370 Text|            Gaul to fetch makers of glass, (more properly artificers,)
371 Text|           Britain, that they might glaze the windows of his church,
372 Text|          Pope Gregory, in which he glorifies the life of the abbot of
373 Text|         condescended to appoint so glorious a vessel of election to
374 Text|          escaped in freedom to the glory of everlasting happiness.
375 Text|      carrying lighted tapers and a golden crucifix. Having crossed
376 Text|      portion of Scripture from the Gospels, appointed to be read every
377 Text|       years; and, afterwards, ably governed, during twenty-eight years,
378 Text|          ruled by one and the same governor of its own race; but when
379 Text|           their contempt for human grandeur, that the one, on entering
380 Text|      arrived, which enabled him to gratify his wish. At that time,
381 Text|   ecclesiastical learning, whether Greek or Latin; and to him was
382 Text|    Benedict died of a palsy, which grew upon him for three whole
383 Text|            and lord in Christ, the grey hairs of our venerable and
384 Text|        careful, out of his natural habits of love, to warn them not
385  Aut|          biblical commentaries and hagiography in particular. ~
386 Text|           lord in Christ, the grey hairs of our venerable and beloved
387 Text|       return to the city which was hallowed by his remains. ~Not long
388 Text|            or handling the smith's hammer, or using the winnowing
389 Text|           the English nation their handicraft, which was well adapted
390 Text|       taking the plough-handle, or handling the smith's hammer, or using
391 Text|          interpreter, but from the hands and by the tongue of a kinsman
392 Text|           the glory of everlasting happiness. That his departure was
393 Text|      judged expedient, without any harm done to Christian charity;
394 Text|          ever reprimanded them too harshly. They went down to the shore
395 Text|          the attendants with their heads on the same pillow, they
396 Text|    Apostles, St. Peter, in Saxony, Health for ever in the' Lord !
397 Text|      doctrine immortal children in heaven. ~Having therefore left
398 Text|     sustain a burden otherwise too heavy for him. And let no one
399 Text|           seek fleshly and earthly heirs to their fleshly and earthly
400 Text|            Sunday, an assembly was held, consisting of all the brethren
401 Text|           monastery, that with the help of this fellow soldier he
402     | here
403 Text|            choosing an abbot, lest high birth, and not rather probity
404 Text|          Christ's sake; and with a higher good in view, to return
405 Text|        equal, for He alone is Most Highest over the whole earth. Wherefore
406 Text|            also the era's greatest historian. It is thus of major interest.~
407 Text|          standing on the steps and holding the censer in his hand.
408 Text|         seven hours after, and was honourably buried the next day in the
409 Text|          nor the nobility, who all honoured him, should delay his departure,
410 Text|          that he could not ride on horseback, and was obliged to be carried
411 Text|        zeal for religion, at every hour of daily or nightly prayer
412 Text|            such their contempt for human grandeur, that the one,
413 Text|           meat and drink, and such humility in dress, as are uncommon
414 Text|            that he might receive a hundredfold and enjoy everlasting life:
415 Text|           Lord's history, which he hung round the chapel of Our
416 Text|         were leaving off the matin hymn. He was twenty-four years
417 Text|        they resolved, with prayer, hymns, and fasting, to seek of
418 Text|         till the day of his death, i.e. from the 4th of June till
419 Text|            even after he was taken ill, and foresaw clear signs
420 Text|            Moses in the desert was illustrated by the Son of Man exalted
421 Text|          abbots, whose life he had imitated. ~But Christ's servant Ceolfrid,
422 Text|          of the Mother of God, the immaculate Virgin Mary, and in the
423 Text|        returned (as usual) with an immense number of proper ecclesiastical
424 Text|          Him in spiritual doctrine immortal children in heaven. ~Having
425 Text|            triumphant, and neither impeded nor delayed by unclean spirits,
426 Text|          father. For it was almost impossible to avoid weeping to see
427 Text|            expedient, having first impressed on the brethren the observance
428 Text|          of virtue, as if recently incited to conversation with the
429 Text|        charity; nay, rather to the increase thereof. ~This man therefore
430 Text|            built several oratories increased the number of vessels of
431 Text|           rule the monastery, from increasing weakness which, though tending
432 Text|        tempered with a baneful and incurable affection of the lungs. ~
433 Text|         incarnation, in the second indiction, and in the fourth year
434 Text|        church of Christ, and every individual soul among the faithful;
435 Text|            become a man of wisdom, industry, piety, and nobility of
436 Text|            of his love on all your inferiors a also We recommend to your
437 Text|         degree depressed by bodily infirmity, and the innocency of whose
438 Text|            whom he had always been inflamed with holy love. When he
439 Text|         was the cause; and history informs us, that, on a pressing
440 Text|           neither by neglect to be injured or dispersed. But on one
441 Text|          bodily infirmity, and the innocency of whose heart was tempered
442 Text|       space of sixteen years, amid innumerable perils in journeying and
443 Text|           shall, by this unanimous inquiry of Christian charity, prefer
444     | Instead
445 Text|    approved of, and I copied these institutions thence for your benefit. "
446 Text|          he had for two years been instructed in the suitable learning
447 Text|         ecclesiastical or monastic instructions he had received at Rome
448 Text|          thus shorn of its ancient integrity, perished. He reminded them
449 Text|        great perseverance of acute intellect, bold in action, experienced
450  Aut|          one of the most important intellects, and most prolific writers
451 Text|            Apostles, with which he intended to adorn the central nave,
452 Text|      father diverted him from this intention, and made him reside in
453 Text|             abandoning their first intentions, returned home to relate
454 Text|       father, the benefit of their intercession and protection. ~
455 Text|          out of the body, a mighty intercessor and protector over our own
456 Text|     historian. It is thus of major interest.~THE pious servant of Christ,
457 Text|           manifest token of Divine interposition, that such a song should
458 Text|        English church; thirdly, he introduced the Roman mode of chanting,
459 Text|             for with him it was an invariable rule, if any one made him
460 Text|       secure for ever from foreign invasion. Fifthly, he brought with
461 Text|      Israel, which always remained invincible and inviolate by foreign
462 Text|            remained invincible and inviolate by foreign nations as long
463 Text|       Testament; as, for instance, Isaac bearing the wood for his
464 Text|         some months he went to the island of Lerins, where he joined
465 Text|          example of the kingdom of Israel, which always remained invincible
466 Text|            into opposing factions, it-fell by degrees, and, thus shorn
467     | itself
468 Text|     complete in the translation by J.A. Giles, is both a short
469 Text|           Lord, on the 14th day of January, in the church of St. Peter;
470  Aut|          became a monk and died at Jarrow in 735. His modern feast
471 Text|         history of the patience of Job, or some other extract from
472 Text|         brethren working, he would join them and work with them,
473 Text|         island of Lerins, where he joined himself to the company of
474 Text|         amid innumerable perils in journeying and in illness, ruled this
475 Text|        they came to Kent, and were joyfully received there; Theodore
476 Text|        death, i.e. from the 4th of June till the 25th of September,
477 Text|            munificent King Alfrid, just as the former privilege
478 Text|         church, he commanded to be kept entire, and neither by neglect
479 Text|           quantity of books of all kinds; secondly, a great number
480 Text|           chastity in the heavenly kingdoms: he refused the father of
481 Text|       hands and by the tongue of a kinsman and fellow countryman. But
482 Text|        city. He left his home, his kinsmen and country, for the sake
483 Text|          and in the fourth year of Kinsr Egfrid's reign. ~After the
484 Text|       Having crossed the river, he kissed the cross, mounted his horse,
485 Text|         bakehouse, the garden, the kitchen, and in all the other labours
486 Text|         the kiss of peace, as they knelt upon their knees; and when
487 Text|         carnal brother, who, as we know, walks not in the way of
488 Text|      towards him the last offices; knowing for certain, that though
489 Text|            man well skilled in the knowledge of Holy Scripture of most
490 Text|      received from his successor a l letter of recommendation
491 Text|      kitchen, and in all the other labours of the monastery with readiness
492 Text|            round the chapel of Our Lady in the larger monastery;
493 Text|        might be able to follow the Lamb bright with the of chastity
494 Text|        hath caused us much sorrow, lamentation, and tears, by his departure,
495 Text|          and there, amid tears and lamentations, he gave them the kiss of
496 Text|       bishop of his own nation and language, he might himself, as well
497 Text|          adapted for enclosing the lanterns of the church, and for the
498 Text|          chapel of Our Lady in the larger monastery; and others to
499 Text|         lengthened gallings of the lash, operating for his own good,
500 Text|         the company of the angels. Lastly, he was the minister of