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501 Text|         learning, whether Greek or Latin; and to him was given, as
502 Text|         entered the oratory of St. Laurence the martyr, which was in
503 Text|            Abbot Easterwine, which lay in the entrance porch of
504 Text|            a year from the time of laying the foundation, you might
505 Text|      before his death, and so have leisure and quiet for reflection,
506 Text|         chastened and tried by the lengthened gallings of the lash, operating
507 Text|           together with their aunt Leonella, they left behind them the
508 Text|           he went to the island of Lerins, where he joined himself
509     | less
510 Text|       venerable Abbot Benedict, to lessen the wearisomeness of the
511 Text|  solicitous, in choosing an abbot, lest high birth, and not rather
512 Text|          defender of our spiritual liberty and peace in this monastic
513 Text|             nor without difficulty lift up his voice to the usual
514 Text|          spirit, they all together lifted up their hearts and voices
515     | likely
516 Text|            he had built; namely, a likeness of the Virgin Mary and of
517 Text|         was descended from a noble lineage of the Angles, and by corresponding
518 Text|         burial; and others, again, lingered in sorrow at the tomb of
519 Text|       weakness. For he reached the Lingones about nine o'clock, where
520 Text|           Lord which his righteous lips had vowed; and after another
521 Text|            Amid the prayers of the Litany, the cry of sorrow resounded
522 Text|          number of books on sacred literature, which he had either bought
523 Text|          there having extracted no little sweetness of whole some
524 Text|          entered the monastery; he lived there twelve years, during
525 Text|       voyage to Rome, and returned loaded with more abundant spiritual
526 Text|       account of their lives and a local history of the monasteries
527 Text|          Paul, in its two separate localities; and, whatever works of
528 Text|           disposition, and fair to look on. He ate of the same food
529 Text|        beloved lord in the Lord of lords, and thrice blessed Pope
530 Text|        when he was dead in all his lower extremities, his upper and
531 Text|         incurable affection of the lungs. ~Not long after, Benedict
532 Text|            room where Benedict was lying on his bed, though they
533 Text|             or using the winnowing machine, or any thing of like nature.
534 Text|           historian. It is thus of major interest.~THE pious servant
535 Text|        messengers to Gaul to fetch makers of glass, (more properly
536 Text|          some of the brethren, and making them sing psalms in two
537 Text|          earth. Wherefore it was a manifest token of Divine interposition,
538 Text|        which it lives, in the same manner no man should ever try to
539 Text| everlasting repose: he entered the mansion of the heavenly kingdom,
540 Text|          He died on the seventh of March, in the night, as the brethren
541 Text|            of the monastery of St. Martin to teach the English. This
542 Text|        oratory of St. Laurence the martyr, which was in the dormitory
543 Text|          holy remembrance of their martyrdom; and I pray that they may
544 Text|         carried back with him some masons to build him a church in
545 Text|             be the more thoroughly master of the words and mysteries
546 Text|      brethren were leaving off the matin hymn. He was twenty-four
547 Text|           also of that evangelical maxim, ever worthy to be remembered,-"
548 Text|        observed such abstinence in meat and drink, and such humility
549 Text|        Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus. They were born at one birth,
550 Text|   extremities, his upper and vital members, spared to show his patience
551 Text|           not make that, like some men, a cause of boasting and
552 Text|  inheritance." ~Nor must I omit to mention that the venerable Abbot
553 Text|            s venerable servant Wit mer, whom we have already mentioned,
554 Text|            more abundant spiritual merchandise than before In the first
555 Text|        remains. ~Not long after, a merchant-vessel arrived, which enabled him
556 Text|             and, whatever works of merit his predecessor had begun,
557 Text|           that, though we have not merited to do this, you will carefully
558 Text|     drawing to completion, he sent messengers to Gaul to fetch makers
559 Text|            splendour. The brethren met together at the church,
560 Text|       virtue, were employed in the midst of his sufferings in giving
561 Text|         body or out of the body, a mighty intercessor and protector
562 Text|            next day near the first milestone on the south side of the
563 Text|           threshing and winnowing, milking the and ewes and cows, and
564 Text|         picture, and with watchful minds might revolve on the benefits
565 Text|         angels. Lastly, he was the minister of King Oswy, and by his
566 Text|          of chanting, singing, and ministering in the church, by obtaining
567 Text|            he introduced the Roman mode of chanting, singing, and
568  Aut|         died at Jarrow in 735. His modern feast day is May 25. He
569 Text|          punishing the wicked, and modesty in consoling the weak; having
570 Text|        protector over our own last moments, at the throne of grace."
571 Text|         his departure, or give him money which he would not have
572  Aut|           Northumberland, became a monk and died at Jarrow in 735.
573     | Moreover
574 Text|        space of time. Early in the morning, therefore, of Wednesday,
575 Text|           he refused the father of mortal children in the flesh, being
576 Text|           the serpent raised up by Moses in the desert was illustrated
577 Text|          sung in the church of the Mother of God, the immaculate Virgin
578 Text|            despising others, but a motive for exercising nobility
579 Text|        river, he kissed the cross, mounted his horse, and departed,
580 Text|            were present, and their munificent King Alfrid, just as the
581 Text|       parts. ~Some decorations and muniments there were which could not
582 Text|        return that Egfrid had been murdered during his absence. ~But,
583 Text|            master of the words and mysteries of the holy faith, as he
584 Text|           resume the thread of the narrative. When Benedict had made
585 Text|           and inviolate by foreign nations as long as it was ruled
586 Text|         directed his course to his native province. He came to the
587 Text|          the village called by the natives Sambuce, and situated much
588 Text|         rather careful, out of his natural habits of love, to warn
589 Text|      chosen a younger abbot, might naturally, in con sequence thereof,
590 Text|      machine, or any thing of like nature. For he was a young man
591 Text|      intended to adorn the central nave, on boarding placed from
592 Text|         done to Christian charity; nay, rather to the increase
593 Text|         Sambuce, and situated much nearer to the monastery. In the
594 Text|        children of the flesh, must necessarily seek fleshly and earthly
595 Text|          sons to God, must of like necessity be spiritual in every thing
596 Text|        kept entire, and neither by neglect to be injured or dispersed.
597 Text|            eighty, but also of the neighbouring inhabitants, who were dissolved
598     | nevertheless
599 Text|            he committed to him the newly ordained bishop, with his
600 Text|          at every hour of daily or nightly prayer would call to him
601 Text|            of the monastery in the ninth year after its foundation,
602 Text|           months, Benedict, who so nobly vanquished sin and wrought
603 Text|      monastery, did not expect any notice of honour or relationship
604 Text|      disdained to submit to carnal nuptials, that he might be able to
605 Text|         ride on horseback, and was obliged to be carried in a horse
606 Text|      impressed on the brethren the observance of the rules which St. Benedict
607 Text|   transitory wealth, that he might obtain that which is eternal. He
608 Text|      ministering in the church, by obtaining permission from Pope Agatho
609 Text|        ancient discipline from any occasions of old age, illness, or
610 Text|         ship in which to cross the ocean. They told him what they
611 Text|          love, to warn them not to offend and bring a cloud of disquietude
612 Text|     occasion required, he punished offenders by regular discipline; but
613 Text|        kingdom, rendering up whole offerings of praise to the Lord which
614 Text|        fulfil towards him the last offices; knowing for certain, that
615     | often
616 Text|          his cheerful countenance. Oftentimes, when he went forth On the
617 Text|          inheritance." ~Nor must I omit to mention that the venerable
618 Text|          hours of prayer, he never omitted to go twice daily through
619 Text|            day, and sitting in the open air, sent for all the brethren,
620 Text|   lengthened gallings of the lash, operating for his own good, abandoned
621 Text|          discipline. ~At first all opposed, and entreated him on their
622 Text|       former sins it was torn into opposing factions, it-fell by degrees,
623 Text|        monastery, he built several oratories increased the number of
624 Text|           church: they entered the oratory of St. Laurence the martyr,
625 Text|          Ceolfrid, in the reign of Osred, paid an additional price,
626     | otherwise
627 Text|         departure by one continued out-pouring of praise. Others clung
628 Text|     Sigfrid, which had been buried outside the Sacrarium to wards the
629 Text|             in the reign of Osred, paid an additional price, and
630 Text|             and Benedict died of a palsy, which grew upon him for
631 Text|          extent For he added three Pandects of a new translation to
632 Text|            the same way as earthly parents consider their eldest as
633 Text|            to avoid weeping to see part of his company continuing
634  Aut|    commentaries and hagiography in particular. ~
635 Text|          chest, but separated by a partition, laid them within the church
636 Text|      feared, what actually came to pass, that he might die before
637 Text|           I have preserved the few passages which follow. ~"To our most
638 Text|        built thereon for the first pastor of his church. This was
639 Text|        prudent, the abbot Hadrian. Perceiving also that the reverend Benedict
640 Text|            tending no doubt to the perfection of Christian purity, was
641 Text|   confounded and routed, and shall perish for ever, unnerved before
642 Text|         thrown off his fleshly and perishable body, he entered the heavenly
643 Text|          of its ancient integrity, perished. He reminded them also of
644 Text|           the church, by obtaining permission from Pope Agatho to take
645 Text|       Ceolfrid, was a man of great perseverance of acute intellect, bold
646 Text|            instruction by teaching personally, but left behind him numerous
647 Text|        care, had died of a general pestilence. But for this loss he found
648 Text|            though it were but in a picture, and with watchful minds
649 Text|            their heads on the same pillow, they had not the power
650 Text|           in the body the resting. places of the remains of the holy
651 Text|            to wards the south, and placing both together in one chest,
652 Text|        tolerable for me, if God so pleased, that this place, wherein
653 Text|          soul addicted to no false pleasures. He was descended from a
654 Text|           with them, by taking the plough-handle, or handling the smith's
655 Text|           or dispersed. But on one point he was most solicitous,
656 Text|            Peter also ordained two pontiffs under him to rule the Church
657 Text|          which lay in the entrance porch of St. Peter's, and also
658 Text|       certain, that though you may possess his body, yet both we and
659 Text|            him the greatest who is possessed of the most abundant grace
660 Text|           at Vienne, where he took possession of such as he had entrusted
661 Text|        Lord a new abbot as soon as possible. This resolution they communicated
662 Text|            But Ceolfrid having now practised a long course of regular
663 Text|            Author of his being, in praises to God, and exhortations
664 Text|          also the bones of his old preceptor, Abbot Sigfrid, which had
665 Text|         preach to all he could the precepts of ecclesiastical life which
666 Text|        whatever works of merit his predecessor had begun, he, with no less
667 Text|         communicating with him, he prepared for his departure. All of
668 Text|           from his extreme age, to prescribe to his brethren the proper
669 Text|            customary blessings, in presence of the bishop. For those
670 Text|     history informs us, that, on a pressing occasion, the blessed St.
671 Text|          God's aid, no enemy could prevail. In the sixteenth year after
672 Text|            s. The greatest concord prevailed, and the same sentiments
673 Text|           learning, as he had done previously, after some months he went
674 Text|       consider their eldest as the principal one of their children, and
675 Text|  immediately before his death in a private apartment, from which he
676 Text|         and wisdom, he gained many privileges for the monastery; and,
677 Text|         high birth, and not rather probity of life and doctrines should
678 Text|         spiritual seed of the Word procreate spiritual sons to God, must
679 Text|          learning, both sacred and profane, was equally extensive,
680  Aut|     important intellects, and most prolific writers of his time. Among
681 Text|          yet, like a youth of good promise, accomplishing the journey
682 Text|          and, as his kind feelings prompted him, gave to each of them
683 Text|           was chanted for him is a proof. For the brethren coming
684 Text|       fetch makers of glass, (more properly artificers,) who were at
685 Text|           absence. ~But, amid this prosperity, he found afflictions also
686 Text|           a mighty intercessor and protector over our own last moments,
687 Text|         and on the same day Divine Providence so ordered that Christ's
688 Text|           his course to his native province. He came to the court of
689 Text|          the usual extent of daily psalmody, the prudent man, in his
690 Text|     brethren, and making them sing psalms in two companies, would
691 Text|           privilege was con firmed publicly by the king and bishops
692 Text|     Whenever occasion required, he punished offenders by regular discipline;
693 Text|           most wonderful energy in punishing the wicked, and modesty
694 Text|            perfection of Christian purity, was so great, that, when
695 Text|            he brought back a large quantity of books of all kinds; secondly,
696 Text|            and so have leisure and quiet for reflection, but that
697 Text|         ever in heavenly peace and quietude. For Sigfrid also, as I
698 Text|           same governor of its own race; but when for its former
699 Text|          an estate suitable to his rank; but at the age of twenty
700 Text|            would frequently call a reader, and cause him to read aloud,
701 Text|      labours of the monastery with readiness and submission. When he
702 Text|       duties of writing, chanting, reading. and teaching. He had been
703 Text|          his Gospel, that he might receive a hundredfold and enjoy
704     | recently
705 Text|            read every evening, was recited by a priest during the whole
706 Text|           your inferiors a also We recommend to your holy clemency, most
707 Text|            successor a l letter of recommendation to Pope Gregory, of which
708 Text|            pray for him, and to be reconciled to him, if he had ever reprimanded
709 Text|         have leisure and quiet for reflection, but that they also, having
710 Text|          the heavenly kingdoms: he refused the father of mortal children
711 Text|       intentions, returned home to relate his death and burial; and
712 Text|           monastic rules. He never relaxed the rigour of ancient discipline
713 Text|         during the whole night, to relieve their sorrow. The sacrament
714 Text|           maxim, ever worthy to be remembered,-"A kingdom divided against
715 Text|          left behind them the holy remembrance of their martyrdom; and
716 Text|            integrity, perished. He reminded them also of that evangelical
717 Text|            which the monastery was rendered safe and secure for ever
718 Text|           of the heavenly kingdom, rendering up whole offerings of praise
719 Text|          he would not have time to repay; for with him it was an
720 Text|     resting - place of everlasting repose: he entered the mansion
721 Text|        with him pictures of sacred representations, to adorn the church of
722 Text|  reconciled to him, if he had ever reprimanded them too harshly. They went
723 Text|            the consent, but by the request and exhortation, of King
724 Text|            intention, and made him reside in his own country and kingdom;
725 Text|          as soon as possible. This resolution they communicated to their
726 Text|            be done. At length they resolved, with prayer, hymns, and
727 Text|          Litany, the cry of sorrow resounded from all as they went out
728 Text|             so also after death he rested hard by his relics, and
729 Text|       venerable Easterwine, let us resume the thread of the narrative.
730 Text|           and dignity of abbot, he retained the same spirit; saying
731 Text|         and peace in this monastic retirement; and, in the first place,
732 Text|          wall, and others from the Revelation of St. John for the north
733 Text|          with watchful minds might revolve on the benefits of our Lord'
734 Text|          so weak that he could not ride on horseback, and was obliged
735 Text|       praise to the Lord which his righteous lips had vowed; and after
736 Text|        rules. He never relaxed the rigour of ancient discipline from
737 Text|            you might have seen the roof on and the solemnity of
738 Text|           s history, which he hung round the chapel of Our Lady in
739 Text|            shall be confounded and routed, and shall perish for ever,
740 Text|       dress, as are uncommon among rulers; saw himself now old and
741 Text|          relieve their sorrow. The sacrament of our Lord s flesh and
742 Text|            been buried outside the Sacrarium to wards the south, and
743 Text|       bearing the wood for his own sacrifice, and Christ carrying the
744 Text|         the monastery was rendered safe and secure for ever from
745 Text|           he show from his love to Saint Peter, in whose honour he
746 Text|      village called by the natives Sambuce, and situated much nearer
747 Text|            beginning of the night, sang through the Psalter in order,
748 Text|          Conwalh, king of the West Saxons, whose friendship and services
749 Text|            Apostles, St. Peter, in Saxony, Health for ever in the'
750 Text|          retained the same spirit; saying to all, according to the
751 Text|        with which you are full, to scatter the beams of his love on
752 Text|    quantity of books of all kinds; secondly, a great number of relics
753 Text|            his country. He made no secret of his zeal for religion,
754 Text|    monastery was rendered safe and secure for ever from foreign invasion.
755 Text|         those who by the spiritual seed of the Word procreate spiritual
756 Text|             who in these parts are seeking with me to bear the pleasant
757 Text|        after, Benedict himself was seized by a disease. For, that
758 Text|            bestow upon my unworthy self, and upon our holy father,
759 Text|     appointed one of his Church to send as archbishop into Britain.
760 Text|            prevailed, and the same sentiments were expressed by both.
761 Text|           and St. Paul, in its two separate localities; and, whatever
762 Text|            might naturally, in con sequence thereof, observe more accurately
763 Text|     eternal felicity succeeded, of serenity and of splendour. The brethren
764 Text|           side by side. Again, the serpent raised up by Moses in the
765 Text|          will decay, that he might serve under the true King, and
766 Text|           things necessary for the service of the church and the altar,
767 Text|       Saxons, whose friendship and services he had already more than
768 Text|         design to the brethren, he set out upon his journey. For
769 Text|           to you. I learnt it from seventeen monasteries, which I saw
770 Text|        their guide. He died on the seventh of March, in the night,
771 Text|         that he forthwith gave him seventy hides of land out of his
772 Text|      unknown tongue. ~Ceolfrid was seventy-four years old when he died:
773 Text|          of peace, whilst they all shed tears of sorrow for the
774 Text|    Ceolfrid, who was waiting for a ship in which to cross the ocean.
775 Text|     harshly. They went down to the shore and there, amid tears and
776 Text|      it-fell by degrees, and, thus shorn of its ancient integrity,
777 Text|         his zeal for religion, and showed what ecclesiastical or monastic
778 Text|      consent, and both monasteries showing the same spirit, they all
779 Text|          of the elders; and having shown the most incomparable skill
780 Text|           the chamber in which the sick man, strong in mind, awaited
781 Text|        them on the bed of temporal sickness, that when they had conquered
782 Text|        synod, was confirmed by the signatures of the bishops who were
783 Text|       taken ill, and foresaw clear signs of his approaching death,
784 Text|         brought two cloaks, all of silk, and of incomparable workmanship,
785 Text|     protection of their monastery, similar to that which Pope Agatho
786 Text|            who so nobly vanquished sin and wrought the deeds of
787     | since
788 Text|          speak more correctly, the single monastery of St. Peter and
789 Text|     Benedict; and yet such was the singleness of mind in both, such their
790 Text|            but when for its former sins it was torn into opposing
791 Text|          he came -out one day, and sitting in the open air, sent for
792 Text|           the natives Sambuce, and situated much nearer to the monastery.
793 Text|         both his monasteries about six hundred brethren. ~When
794 Text|        enemy could prevail. In the sixteenth year after he built the
795 Text|        shown the most incomparable skill both in praying and chanting,
796 Text|           passed the night without sleep in praying and singing,
797 Text|            he often passed without sleeping, would frequently call a
798 Text|          in the same apartment: he slept in the same common room
799 Text|     virtues of the mind were in no small degree depressed by bodily
800 Text|     plough-handle, or handling the smith's hammer, or using the winnowing
801 Text|            the help of this fellow soldier he might sustain a burden
802 Text|           seen the roof on and the solemnity of the mass celebrated therein.
803 Text|         with many tears, but their solicitations were to no purpose. Such
804 Text|           on one point he was most solicitous, in choosing an abbot, lest
805 Text|        regular discipline with due solicitude; and when he had for two
806     | sometime
807 Text|         interposition, that such a song should be sung at the moment
808 Text|           Word procreate spiritual sons to God, must of like necessity
809 Text|            the Lord a new abbot as soon as possible. This resolution
810 Text|          the sea into Gaul, and no sooner asked than he obtained and
811 Text|           they had conquered their sorrows by death, He might cherish
812 Text|        they may find rest to their souls, that God has condescended
813 Text|           upper and vital members, spared to show his patience and
814 Text|           deceased among strangers speaking an unknown tongue. ~Ceolfrid
815 Text|          of these twin martyrs are Speusippus, Eleusippus, and Meleusippus.
816 Text|     impeded nor delayed by unclean spirits, the psalm which was chanted
817 Text|      succeeded, of serenity and of splendour. The brethren met together
818 Text|          gave his blessing to all, standing on the steps and holding
819 Text|           the monastery, as I have stated, sixteen years: the first
820 Text|            to all, standing on the steps and holding the censer in
821 Text|          with the same piety which stirred him up to build it. If I
822 Text|         tomb of the deceased among strangers speaking an unknown tongue. ~
823 Text|          counsellor, a man equally strenuous and prudent, the abbot Hadrian.
824 Text|      examine their hearts the more strictly on that account. ~Thus King
825 Text|     chamber in which the sick man, strong in mind, awaited his departure
826 Text|          him a church in the Roman style, which he had always admired.
827 Text|            be like unto thee? "The subject of the text is this; that
828 Text|       monastery with readiness and submission. When he attained to the
829 Text|  everlasting life: he disdained to submit to carnal nuptials, that
830 Text|           should become abbot, and succeed me in its government. Wherefore,
831 Text|            day of eternal felicity succeeded, of serenity and of splendour.
832 Text|            for two years; and then successfully, as before, accomplished
833 Text|      experienced. But Conwalh died suddenly about this time, and he
834 Text|           on which he was about to suffer, were placed side by side.
835 Text|       employed in the midst of his sufferings in giving thanks to the
836 Text|        third day, which was Easter Sunday, an assembly was held, consisting
837 Text|         father Abbot Ceolfrid, the supporter and defender of our spiritual
838 Text|         For," said he, "you cannot suppose that it was my own untaught
839 Text|           even from his childhood, surpassing his age by his manners,
840 Text|            fellow soldier he might sustain a burden otherwise too heavy
841 Text|         having extracted no little sweetness of whole some learning,
842 Text|           being exhibited before a synod, was confirmed by the signatures
843 Text|          archchanter of the church t of St. Peter, and abbot
844 Text|     permission from Pope Agatho to take back with him John, the
845 Text|         with him, carrying lighted tapers and a golden crucifix. Having
846 Text|         monastery of St. Martin to teach the English. This John,
847 Text|      should be attended to. "And I tell you of a truth," said he, "
848 Text|       innocency of whose heart was tempered with a baneful and incurable
849 Text|            of a portion of land of ten hides, which he had received
850 Text|  increasing weakness which, though tending no doubt to the perfection
851 Text|         good, abandoned the earthy tenement of the flesh, and escaped
852 Text|       connexion of the Old and New Testament; as, for instance, Isaac
853 Text|          thee? "The subject of the text is this; that the enemies
854 Text|           commended themselves and theirs to the protection of the
855     | thence
856     | thereby
857     | therein
858 Text|            a monastery to be built thereon for the first pastor of
859 Text|         abbot of both monasteries; thinking it expedient in every respect
860 Text|            many an English church; thirdly, he introduced the Roman
861 Text|            priest's orders, during thirty five of which he had been
862 Text|         guide, both on the journey thither, and afterwards, upon his
863 Text|          cause of Christ, that the thorns of his former secular anxieties
864 Text|            his people, be the more thoroughly master of the words and
865 Text|      Easterwine, let us resume the thread of the narrative. When Benedict
866 Text|           that he took pleasure in threshing and winnowing, milking the
867 Text|          in the Lord of lords, and thrice blessed Pope Gregory, Huetbert,
868 Text|           of abbot; and so, having thrown off his fleshly and perishable
869 Text|           of the flesh, but by the ties of Christian virtue, and
870 Text|            the Church in these our times; and by means of the light
871 Text|           who enjoyed with him the title of abbot, and assisted him
872 Text|            forty years of care and toil, during his government of
873 Text|        Wherefore it was a manifest token of Divine interposition,
874 Text|           to cross the ocean. They told him what they had done,
875 Text|       evils, it would be much more tolerable for me, if God so pleased,
876 Text|          lingered in sorrow at the tomb of the deceased among strangers
877 Text|       great strength, and pleasant tone of voice, of a kind and
878 Text|     company of monks, received the tonsure, and, having taken the vow,
879 Text|           Gregory in Kent on every topic of Church discipline; but
880 Text|         for its former sins it was torn into opposing factions,
881 Text|            English who were in his train, to the number of eighty,
882 Text|           five years he despised a transitory wealth, that he might obtain
883 Text|       abbots at once. His frequent travelling for the benefit of the monastery,
884 Text| monasteries, which I saw during my travels, and most approved of, and
885 Text|      virtue of patience might be a trial of their religious zeal,
886 Text|         fire and water of temporal tribulation, was carried to the resting -
887 Text|         holy spirit, chastened and tried by the lengthened gallings
888 Text|          to the holy and undivided Trinity, for that, although he hath
889 Text|        That his departure was most triumphant, and neither impeded nor
890 Text|           he might serve under the true King, and earn an everlasting
891 Text|          manner no man should ever try to divide these two monasteries,
892 Text|            not read, wherever they turned their eyes, might have before
893 Text|  afterwards, ably governed, during twenty-eight years, both these monasteries;
894 Text|         off the matin hymn. He was twenty-four years old when he entered
895 Text|             he never omitted to go twice daily through the Psalter
896 Text|            in the monastery of the Twins, followed by a large number
897 Text|      whomsoever you shall, by this unanimous inquiry of Christian charity,
898 Text|            And let no one think it unbecoming that one monastery should
899 Text|     neither impeded nor delayed by unclean spirits, the psalm which
900 Text|          humility in dress, as are uncommon among rulers; saw himself
901 Text|         the rest, took pleasure in undergoing the usual course of monastic
902 Text|            the travel which he had undertaken for Christ's sake; and with
903 Text|            death, he a second time undertakes to travel in the cause of
904 Text|       thereof. ~This man therefore undertook the government of the monastery
905 Text|             thanks to the holy and undivided Trinity, for that, although
906 Text|        monasteries, which had been united under the names of the first
907 Text|         and shall perish for ever, unnerved before the power of the
908 Text|         suppose that it was my own untaught heart which dictated this
909     | until
910     | unto
911 Text|            they may bestow upon my unworthy self, and upon our holy
912 Text|         his lower extremities, his upper and vital members, spared
913 Text|   exhortations to the brethren. He urged the brethren, when they
914 Text|           up to build it. If I may use the words of the blessed
915 Text|       every thing which he thought useful or worthy to be brought
916 Text|       vessels required for various uses. All other things necessary
917     | using
918 Text|             Benedict, who so nobly vanquished sin and wrought the deeds
919 Text|          did not cease to love and venerate, and to preach to all he
920 Text|           blood was given him.as a viaticum at the moment of his departure;
921 Text|           his return he arrived at Vienne, where he took possession
922 Text|          and with a higher good in view, to return home to his country,
923 Text|           that when a youth he had visited, seen, and worshipped. After
924 Text|         extremities, his upper and vital members, spared to show
925 Text|          Rome, in the time of Pope Vitalian, of blessed memory; and
926 Text|         had abandoned his temporal vocation and arms, devoting himself
927 Text|          Moreover, for a beautiful volume of the Geographers which
928 Text|   elsewhere. He displayed the holy volumes and relics of Christ's blessed
929 Text|     tonsure, and, having taken the vow, observed the regular discipline
930 Text|       which his righteous lips had vowed; and after another space
931 Text|      brethren to Ceolfrid, who was waiting for a ship in which to cross
932 Text|          brother, who, as we know, walks not in the way of truth,
933 Text|           outside the Sacrarium to wards the south, and placing both
934 Text|         natural habits of love, to warn them not to offend and bring
935 Text|       against itself shall be laid waste." , ~Two months after this,
936 Text|          as I have mentioned, died wasted by a long illness: and Benedict
937 Text|         but in a picture, and with watchful minds might revolve on the
938 Text|        passed through the fire and water of temporal tribulation,
939 Text|           he despised a transitory wealth, that he might obtain that
940 Text|            Benedict, to lessen the wearisomeness of the night, which from
941 Text|         the morning, therefore, of Wednesday, the 4th of May, the mass
942 Text|          the time. Zealous for the welfare of St. Peter's monastery,
943 Text|            of Conwalh, king of the West Saxons, whose friendship
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945     | wherein
946     | wherever
947     | whoever
948 Text|       fittest for this office; and whomsoever you shall, by this unanimous
949 Text|            energy in punishing the wicked, and modesty in consoling
950 Text|         and fellow countryman. But Wig hard, on coming to Rome,
951 Text|           to the office of bishop, Wighard by name, who had been adequately
952 Text|          that they might glaze the windows of his church, with the
953 Text|       Night came on chilled by the winter's blasts, but a day of eternal
954 Text|            the advice of a certain wise man, "They have made thee
955 Text|         enabled him to gratify his wish. At that time, Egbert, king
956 Text|         Christ's venerable servant Wit mer, whom we have already
957 Text|       religious servant of Christ, Witmer, whose acquaintance with
958 Text|        instance, Isaac bearing the wood for his own sacrifice, and
959 Text|          the spiritual seed of the Word procreate spiritual sons
960 Text|           if he found the brethren working, he would join them and
961 Text|          silk, and of incomparable workmanship, for which he received an
962 Text|          localities; and, whatever works of merit his predecessor
963 Text|            a time be free from all worldly cares before his death,
964 Text|          the heavenly life, though worn out with extreme old age,
965 Text|          he had visited, seen, and worshipped. After more s than forty
966  Aut|      intellects, and most prolific writers of his time. Among his other
967 Text|       himself, as Pope St. Gregory writes of him, appointed twelve
968 Text|           in the various duties of writing, chanting, reading. and
969 Text|           left behind him numerous writings, which are still preserved
970 Text|        Bede's Lives of the Abbots, written sometime after 716, given
971 Text|       forgave all of them whatever wrong they might have done him;
972  Aut|          Church and People, but he wrote many others - biblical commentaries
973 Text|           nobly vanquished sin and wrought the deeds of virtue, yielded
974 Text|       wrought the deeds of virtue, yielded to the weakness of the flesh,
975 Text|            me to bear the pleasant yoke of Christ, that they may
976 Text|         they also, having chosen a younger abbot, might naturally,
977 Text|       blessing. Afterwards, by his youthful zeal and wisdom, he gained