Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England — John Shaqi
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of EnglandBede, the Venerable, Saint
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
Bede, the Venerable, Saint
England -- Church history -- 449-1066
[675 A.D.?]
Chap. X. How a blind woman, praying in the burial-place of that
monastery, was restored to her sight. [675 A.D.?]
Chap. XI. How Sebbi, king of the same province, ended his life in a
monastery. [694 A.D.]
Chap. XII. How Haedde succeeded Leutherius in the bishopric of the West
Saxons; how Cuichelm succeeded Putta in the bishopric of the church of
Rochester, and was himself succeeded by Gebmund; and who were then
bishops of the Northumbrians. [673-681 A.D.]
Chap. XIII. How Bishop Wilfrid converted the province of the South
Saxons to Christ. [681 A.D.]
Chap. XIV. How a pestilence ceased through the intercession of King
Oswald. [681-686 A.D.]
Chap. XV. How King Caedwalla, king of the Gewissae, having slain
Ethelwalch, wasted that Province with cruel slaughter and devastation.
[685 A.D.]
Chap. XVI. How the Isle of Wight received Christian inhabitants, and
two royal youths of that island were killed immediately after Baptism.
[686 A.D.]
Chap. XVII. Of the Synod held in the plain of Haethfelth, Archbishop
Theodore being president. [680 A.D.]
Chap. XVIII. Of John, the precentor of the Apostolic see, who came into
Britain to teach. [680 A.D.]
Chap. XIX. How Queen Ethelthryth always preserved her virginity, and
her body suffered no corruption in the grave. [660-696 A.D.]
Chap. XX. A Hymn concerning her.
Chap. XXI. How Bishop Theodore made peace between the kings Egfrid and
Ethelred. [679 A.D.]
Chap. XXII. How a certain captive’s chains fell off when Masses were
sung for him. [679 A.D.]
Chap. XXIII. Of the life and death of the Abbess Hilda. [614-680 A.D.]
Chap. XXIV. That there was in her monastery a brother, on whom the gift
of song was bestowed by Heaven. [680 A.D.]
Chap. XXV. Of the vision that appeared to a certain man of God before
the monastery of the city Coludi was burned down.
Chap. XXVI. Of the death of the Kings Egfrid and Hlothere. [684-685
A.D.]
Chap. XXVII. How Cuthbert, a man of God, was made bishop; and how he
lived and taught whilst still in the monastic life. [685 A.D.]
Chap. XXVIII. How the same St. Cuthbert, living the life of an
Anchorite, by his prayers obtained a spring in a dry soil, and had a
crop from seed sown by the labour of his hands out of season. [676
A.D.]
Chap. XXIX. How this bishop foretold that his own death was at hand to
the anchorite Herebert. [687 A.D.]
Chap. XXX. How his body was found altogether uncorrupted after it had
been buried eleven years; and how his successor in the bishopric
departed this world not long after. [698 A.D.]
Chap. XXXI. Of one that was cured of a palsy at his tomb.
Chap. XXXII. Of one who was lately cured of a disease in his eye at the
relics of St. Cuthbert.
Book V
Chap. I. How Ethelwald, successor to Cuthbert, leading a hermit’s life,
calmed a tempest by his prayers when the brethren were in danger at
sea. [687-699 A.D.]
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