Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and cultureSkene, W. F. (William Forbes)
History
Celtic Scotland : $b A history of ancient Alban. Volume 2 (of 3), Church and culture
Skene, W. F. (William Forbes)
Celts -- Scotland; Civilization, Celtic; Scotland -- Antiquities, Celtic; Scotland -- History -- To 1603
favourable; but they had no sooner reached the land than a tempest
arose, by which they were detained for several days exposed to hunger
and cold; but they were, by the prayers of the saint, supplied with food
under a cliff where he was wont to pray during the watches of the night;
and on the fourth day the tempest ceased, and they were brought by a
prosperous breeze to their own country.[404] The traces of this visit
have been left in the name of Kirkcudbright, or Church of Cuthbert.
[Sidenote: A.D. 664.
Cudberct goes to Lindisfarne.]
In the year 664 the Columban Church in Northumbria was brought to an end
by the adverse decision of the Council of Whitby, and Bishop Colman left
the country with those of his Scottish clerics who would not conform to
Rome. Eata, the abbot, however, and his provost, Cudberct, gave in their
adhesion to the Roman party, and, at Bishop Colman’s suggestion, the
monastery of Lindisfarne was placed under Eata’s charge, who thus became
abbot both of Mailros and of Lindisfarne. To the latter monastery Eata
transferred Cudberct, ‘there to teach the rules of monastic perfection
with the authority of a superior, and to illustrate it by becoming an
example of virtue.’ He appears to have become zealous in endeavouring to
assimilate the Scottish system to the customs of the Roman Church, for
Bede tells us that there still remained ‘in the monastery certain monks
who chose rather to follow their ancient custom than to obey the new
rule. These, nevertheless, he overcame by the modest power of his
patience, and by daily practice he brought them by little and little to
a better disposition.’[405] In the meantime Tuda, who had been initiated
and ordained bishop among the southern Scots of Ireland, having also the
coronal tonsure according to the custom of that province, and observing
the Catholic time of Easter, and had come from thence while Colman was
yet bishop, was appointed bishop of the Northumbrians in his place. ‘He
was a good and religious man,’ says Bede, ‘but governed his church a
very short time,’ being cut off by the great pestilence of that
year.[406] King Alchfrid had sent Wilfrid to Gaul to be consecrated
bishop over him and his people, and being still absent, King Osuiu sent
Ceadda, abbot of the monastery of Laestingaeu, who had been one of
Bishop Aidan’s disciples, to Kent to be ordained bishop of the church of
York, where, as the archbishop had just died, he was consecrated bishop
by Bishop Vini of Wessex, to whom were joined two bishops of the British
nation who adhered to the Roman party.
[Sidenote: A.D. 669-678.
St. Wilfrid bishop over all the dominions of King Osuiu, and
founds church of Hexham, which he dedicates to St. Andrew.]
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