The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): JanuaryBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Religion
The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Christian saints
Hilda, the great abbess of Whitby, upheld the Keltic rite. On the
other side were S. Wilfrid, the young Prince Alchfrid, and James, the
deacon of York. In this parliament, it was decided that the Roman usages
should be adopted, and Cedd renounced the customs of Lindisfarne, in
which he had been educated, and returned to his diocese of London to
spread the Roman usages there.
"Cedd," says Bede, "for many years had charge of his bishopric and of
the monastery of Lastingham, over which he had placed superiors. It
happened that he came there at the time that a plague was raging, and he
fell sick and died. He was first buried in the open air, but in process
of time, a church of stone was built in the monastery, in honour of the
Mother of God, and his body was interred in the same, on the right hand
of the altar."
The Bishop left the monastery to be governed after him by his brother
Chad, who was afterwards made bishop. For the four brothers, Cedd, and
Cynebil, Celin, and Ceadda (Chad)--which is a rare thing to be met
with--were all celebrated priests of our Lord, and two of them also came
to be bishops.
S. TYLLO, H.
(ABOUT 700.)
[Cologne, German, and Belgian Martyrologies. The name is sometimes
Tyllo, Thillo, or Hillo; in Belgium, Theaulon or Tilman. Authority:
A life published in the Bollandists, which agrees with scattered
notices of him in various writers.]
S. Tillo, the Patron of Iseghem, in Belgium, was a son of Saxon parents,
but was stolen, when young, from his home, and sold as a slave in Gaul.
S. Eligius, who redeemed many slaves, bought the lad, and being struck
with his beauty and intelligence, sent him to the monastery of Solignac,
to be educated by S. Remacle, then abbot of Solignac. After his
education was complete, he was returned to S. Eligius, who was a
goldsmith, patronized by King Dagobert and the nobles of the court. With
him Tillo learned the trade of a goldsmith, and made many vessels and
ornaments of gold and silver, encrusted with gems, for the King. Whilst
he worked, he had the Holy Scriptures open before him, and as he chased
the silver and gold he studied the Word of God. He kept ever in his
heart the maxim, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye
even so to them," and all his work was done to the best of his ability,
and executed with punctuality. Thus, he found favour with Eligius, and
with all the customers of his master. When Eligius left his shop, and
became a bishop, he called to the clerical office and to the religious
life, his apprentice whom he had bought in the market many years before.
Tillo, as priest and monk, showed a pattern of holiness, and was made
abbot of Solignac, near Limoges. But ruling three hundred monks and
attending to the worldly affairs of a great monastery, and more than
that, the multitude of visitors, made the life one for which the
goldsmith's apprentice, trained to work in silence, and think and read,
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