of S. Sethird Virgin and Abbâ—sse daughter to Annas King of the East-angles and sister to S. Edilburge Virgin who in her yong yeares went ouer into France and became a Religious womaÌ„ there in a monastery at the forsaid towne of Brige vnder the care of her said sister that then gouerned the same after whose death she was made Abbesse of the whole Monastery where in very great sanctimony of life ioyned with most godly Conuersation and Monasticall discipline she yielded vp her blessed soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore And was buryed in the same place D The eleuenth Day AT VVorcester the deposition of S. Egwine Confessor third Bishop of that Sea who being a man of very austere life made a payre of iron-shackles locked them close about his legges then cast the keyes therof into the Riuer of Seuerne an so went to Rome with Oâ—â—a King of Mercia desiring of God that the said shackles might not be loosed from his leges vntill he had made satisfation for all the synnes of his youthfull yeares and in his returne backe as he came ouer the sea vpon a suddayne a fish leaped into the shippe wherin he sayled which being taken and killed the forsaid keyes of the shackles that he had throwne into the riuer were found in the fishes belly the which being brought to the Blessed Bishop he forthwith applyed them to the shackles that were about his legges and straight vnlocking them to the admiration of the behoulders he came ioyfully home to his Bishopricke He founded the famous Abbey of Euesham neere VVorcester endowed it with great reuenewes possessions procuring from Rome diuers priuiledges and franchises for the same of Pope Constantine by the meanes of K. Coenred and K. Oâ—â—a that then resided in that Citty for deuotion sake And after many other workes of piety famous for miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and sixteene and was buried at Euesham E The twelfth Day AT VVire-mouth in the Bishopricke of Durham the deposition of S. Benedict Abbot surnamed Biscopus who being descended of a noble parentage in our Iland went to Rome and after his returne thence built a goodly Monastery at the Riuer-banke of VVire in the Kingdome of the Northumbers wherin our famous S. Bede was afterward brought vp He founded there also a goodly Church dedicating the same to the Blessed Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul And after a second voyage to Rome to procure priuiledges for his said Monastery full of sanctity and holinesse of life he ended his venerable dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and three and was buryed in the forsaid Church which himself had built wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles F The thirteenth Day AT Glasco in Scotland the deposition of S. Kentigerne Abbot and Confessour Sonne to King Eugenius the third of Scotland who being created Bishop of Glasco soone after resigned that dignity and built himselfe a Monastery in the same Kingdome gathering togeather six hundred Monkes whome he instructed in all kind of vertue and good learning and was a myrrour to the Christian world And when he had thus coÌ„tinued for very many yeares full of venerable old age ioyned with sanctity of life and miracles he gaue vp his blessed soule to rest about the yeare of Christ six hundred and eight and was buryed in the same place G The fourteenth Day IN North-wales the Commemoration of S. Beno Priest and Confessor who leading an Eremiticall life in the West part of England was by an angell admonished to go into VVales to a noble man called Trebuith S. VVenefrides Father who gaue him a part of his lands and possessions to build a Monastery as also his daughter VVenefride to be instructed and brought vp in a Religious manner whose head being soone after cut of by Cradocus sonne to Alane King of the same Contrey for not yielding to his vnlawfull lust he miraculously set on againe she liuing fifteene yeares after He ended his venerable life full of sanctity and miracles about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore whose body hath alwayes byn had in very great reuerence in our iland especially of the Ancient Britanes of VVales A The fifteenth Day AT Mailros in the Kingdome of Northumberland the Commemoration of Blessed Alfred Confessour and eighteenth King of that Prouince who being a most vertuous Prince in the one and twentith yeare of his raigne contemning all worldly pompe and honour to the admiration of all Christendome both he and his wife the Queene with mutuall consent entred into Monasteryes became Religious she being veyled a Nunne at a place called Dormundcaster two miles from Peterburrow and he taking the habit of a Monke in the forsaid Monastery of Maylros where in great sanctity of life obseruance of Monasticall discipline he spent the rest of his dayes and finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and twenty and was buryed in the same place B The Sixteenth Day AT Tyn-mouth in NorthumberlaÌ„d the deposition of S. Henry Confessor and Eremite who borne in Denmarke of very honourable parents came ouer into England and obtayned leaue of the Prior of Tyn-mouth to lead a solitary or Eremiticall life in the Iland of Cochet where he liued many yeares with only bread and water and afterward he came to eate but thrice in the weeke and three dayes also a weeke he kept sylence On a tyme he would haue gone to Durham but had no boate to passe ouer the riuer of VVire Wherfore being solicitous how to get ouer a boate that was fastened on the other side of the water brake loose and of it selfe came ouer vnto him wherin he passed Towards the end of his dayes he got a swelling in one of his knees through ouer much praying which growing to an vlcer at last brake and when certayne little wormes crept therout he would take and put them in againe saying Go into your inheritance where yow haue byn nourished c. And so perseuering in a most godly and Saintly life for a long tyme when the houre of death drew neere he went into a little Chappell in the same iland and taking the belrope in his hand when he had rung it he departed this life A monke of the next Monastery hearing the bell ring made hast thither and found him dead sitting vpon a stone with the belrope in his hand and a candle standing lighted by him which did yield so cleere a light that it dazeled the eyes of the behoulders His body was brought to Tyn-mouth and there buried in the Church of our B. Lady neere to the body of S. Oswyn King and Martyr in the yeare of Christ 1120. which yeare also he died C The seauenteenth Day AT Canterbury the Commemoration of S. Milwyde Virgin daughter to Merualdus
France and became Maiâ—â—er to the Emperour Charles the Great by whose help he founded the Vniuersity of Paris about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and foure hauing himselfe byn scholler to our famous S. Bede in his youth His notable labours and workes in Gods Church are yet memorable throughout the Christian world He died at Towers in France about the yeare of Christ 813. was the first that composed the Masse Office of the blessed Trinity and of S. Stephen the Protomartyr which being afterward approued by our Mother the holy Catholicke Church is the same that now is vsually said in the RomaÌ„ Missal Breuiary G The twentith Day AT Hereâ—ord the festiuity of S. Ethelbert King of the Eastangles and Martyr who comming into Mercia to visit King Ossa and to treate of a Marriage with his daughter was through the malice of wicked Quendred wife to Ossa miserably slayne at a town now called Sutton-wallis foure miles distant from Hereâ—ord partly for ambition therby to inioy his Kingdome and partly also for that he was a Christian. His body being presently brought to Heresord and there interred it pleased God forth with to shew the innoceÌ„cy of his cause by the wonderfull miracles wrought therat Ouer which King Kenulphus afterward erected a goodly Church in his honour placing there a Bishops Sea and which is now the Cathedrall Church of that Citty He suffered in the yeare of Christ 793. A The one and twentith Day AT Finâ—hall among the Northumbers the deposition of S. Godricke Eremite who after he had lead a solitary life for threescore yeares togeather and twice on pilgrimage for deuotioÌ„ visited our Sauiours Sepulcher at Hierusalem and the blessed Apostles bodyes at Rome full of great sanctity of life veneble old age togeather with innumerable miracles he finally reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred seauenty His body was buryed at Finâ—hall in an Oratory which himselfe had built wherat euen vntill the dayes of Queene Elizabeth many miracles were wrought THE same day at Constantinople the deposition of Blessed Constantine the Great who borne in our â—â—and og Great Britany according to ancient Traditions was the first Christian Emperour that restored peace to the Church of God He is by the Greekes canonized for a Saint and his festiuity appointed on this day among whome also many goodly Churches and altars haue in former ages byn dedicated in his honour And in North wales of our Iland there is yet remayning to be seene a fayre Church â—râ—ted and dedicated in his name B The two and twentith Day AT VVindesore the deposition of holy K. Henry the sixt of that name of England who being a most vertuous and innocent Prince was wrongfully deposed by King Edward the 4. cast into the tower of London where a little after he was most barbarously slayne by Richard Duke of Glocester in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred threescore and eleuen His body was first buryed in the Monastery of Cherâ—sey where presently it began to doe miracles which being sâ—ene it was with great solemnity and veneration translated to VVindesore and there honourably interred in the Chappell of S. Gregory wherat also it pleased God in wittnesse of his innocent life to worke many miracles Moreouer it is recorded that his Veluet â—at which he vsed to weare being put on mens heads that were troubled with the head-ake were presently cured He builded the famous schoole of Eaton and was the founder of the Kings Colledg in Cambridge King Henry the seauenth dealt which Pope Iulius the second about his Canonization but by reason of both their deaths the same was broken of C The three and twentith Day AT Rochester in Kent the deposition of S. VVilliam Martyr who borne in the towne of Perth in Scotland and taking his pilgrimage towards Hierusale on foote through England was by his owne seruant slaine in the high way a little froÌ„ the aforsaid Citty of Rochester whose body being brought to the towne it pleased God forthwith to worke many miracles therat in signe of his innocency where the same was after interred and kept with great veneration in the Cathedrall Church of S. Andrew in the same Citty vntill these our dayes The story of his martyrdoÌ„e miracles is writteÌ„ at large by Thomas Monmouth who liued about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and threescore D The foure twentith Day AT Glastenbury in Somersetshire the Commemoration of holy King Edgar Confessour and first Monarch of England whose glorious actes in Gods Church are famous to all posterity He builded and reedified seauen and fourty Monasteryes that had byn destroyed by the incursions of other barbarous Nations and endowed them with great maintenance as also caused by his intercession to the Sea Apostolicke all the Clergy of his Realme to be reformed In the houre of his Natiuity it is recorded that S. Dunstan heard a voyce of Angells singing Pax Anglorum Ecclesâ—ae c. Peace to the Church of England He died in all sanctity and holinesse of life in the yeare of Christ nyne huÌ„dred threescore and fifteene whose body was with all solemnity and veneration honourably interred at Glastenbury which being takeÌ„ vp in the yeare one thousand fifty and two almost fourscore yeares after his death by Aldar Abbot of that place was found whole and vncorrupt being cut fresh bloud issued therout as if he had byn newly dead wherupon he was put into a costly shrine of siluer which himselfe had somtime giuen to that Church and placed vpon the high altar togeather with the head of S. Apollinaris and the reliques of S. Vincent Martyrs wherat miracles are recorded to haue byn wrought And so continued there vntill the tyme of King Henry the eight and decay of that Monastery E The fiue twentith Day AT Sherborne in Dorcetshire the deposition of S. Adelme Bishop and Confessour nephew to Inas King of the Westsaxons who trauayling into France in his youth after his returne became first a monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict at Malmesbury and afterward being made Abbot of that Monastery went to Rome in company of King Ceadwall and was there created Bishop of Sherborne in Dorcetshire by Pope Sergius and sent backe to his bishopricke where after great labours and many notable bookes wrytten for the instruction of men in Christian Religion but especially one of Virginity which he dedicated to the Nunnes of Barkensteed and wherby many were moued to that holy kind of Religious life he finally reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and nyne His body was buryed at Sherborne first but afterward remooued to Maimesbury where the same was wont to be kept in Catholicke tymes with great veneration F The six and twentith Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Augustine Confessour and first Bishop of that Sea
her prayers she raised to life S. Osith being theÌ„ but a girle that had byn drowned in a riuer three dayes as may be read in the Acts of S. Osithes life THE same day at Canterbury the Translation of S. Anselme Confessour Bishop of the same Sea whose rare learning vertues and labours in Gods Church togeather with his miracles and sanctity of life are yet famous to the Christian world He died in the yeare of Christ 1109. and in the nynth yeare of K. Henry the first his raigne His body was afterward on this day taken vp and translated to a more eminent place of his Church at Canterbury with great solemnity and veneration wherat through his meritts it hath pleased God to worke many miracles E The sixt Day AT Ely in Cambridgshire the deposition of S. Sexburge Queene and Abbesse wife to Ercombert K. of Kent and daughter to Annas King of the Eastangles who after the death of her husband gouerned his Kingdome for a while and built a goodly Monastery of Nunnes in the I le of Sheppey in Kent then became herselfe a Religious woman in the Monastery of Ely wherof also after the death of her sister S. Audry who had that dignity whilst she liued she was made Abbesse and there in most godly wise finally gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse Christ about the yeare of our Lord six hundred fourscore and nynteene and was buryed in the same place neere to her said sister S. Audry Whose body being taken vp seauen yeares after her death was found whole and vncorrupt which well declared the sanctimony and holines of her life whilst she liued F The seauenth Day AT Canterbury the Translation of S. Thomas Archbishop of the same Sea and Martyr who being violently oppressed by King Henry the second his seruantes was after many slaunders calumniations and banishment suffered in defence of Ecclesiasticall libertyes slayne in the tyme of Euensonge in his Pontificall vestments before the high altar in his owne Church of Canbury in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred threescore and seauenteene His body being afterward on this day taken vp and put into a costly siluer shrine guilt and set with pretious stones was translated to a more eminent place of the same Church wherat it pleased God to worke infinite miracles King Henry the eight at his breach with the Sea Apostolicke destroyed this goodly monument and taking all the treasure therof to his owne vse caused his body to be burned to ashes dispersed in the ayre in the yeare of Christ 1538. THE same day at VVinchester in Hampshire the deposition of S. Hedda Confessour and Bishop of that Sea whose godly and innocent life was afterward confirmed by the miracles wrought at his body in VVinchester where he died and was buryed in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fiue THE same day also at Eyst in Germany the deposition of S. VVillebald Confessour and first Bishop of that Sea Sonne to S. Richard King of the English who going ouer to his vncle S. Boniface into Germany was by him ordayned Bishop of Eyst where full of great holines of life he reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fourscore and one His body is buryed in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty and there preserued with great veneration THE same day in like manner at Brige neere Paris in France the depositioÌ„ of the Saintes Edilburge daughter to Annas King of the Eastangles and Ercongote daughter to King Ercombert of Kent who being both Abbesses of the said Monastery of Brige the one succeding the other and dying both on one day in diuers yeares deserued to haue their memoryes celebrated togeather on one and the selfe same day by our Mother the holy Cath. Church The former S. Edilburge died about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore and the other some foure yeares after and were both buryed at Brige aforsaid G The eight Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the depositioÌ„ of S. Grimbald Abbot and Confessour whome King Alfred calling out of TraÌ„â—e into England vsed in all his consultations for the gouernment of his Kingdome He refused the Archbishopricke of Canterbury and chose rather to be Abbot of a new Monastery erected by the said K. Alfred in the Citty of VVinchester where in most godly wise he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and foure THE same day at VVirtzburge in Franconia the passioÌ„ of S. Kilian Bishop togeather with the Saints ColmaÌ„ TotnaÌ„ Erwald moÌ„kes and Martyrs who being borne in Ireland all of very honourable families and S. Kilian sonne to the King of that Iland went ouer into Germany where S. Kilian was ordayned Bishop of VVirtzburge and preaching the Christian faith in those partes were all at last by the enemyes of truth slayne for the defence therof vnder Gosbert King of Franconia about the yeare of Christ six hundred nynty and seauen Their Reliques are kept vntill this day at VVirtzburge with great veneration of the inhabitants A The ninth Day AT Barking in Essex the deposition of S. Edilburge Queene who being wife to Inas King of the VVestsaxons both she and her husband consented to enter into two Monasteryes and become religious wherupon the King himselfe going to Rome and there taking vpon him the habit of a monke of S. Benedicts Order the Queene likewise entred into the Monastery of Barking aforsaid and receyued the holy veyle of Chastity where in all kind of sanctimony of life she finally ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fourty Of this name of Edilburge there are three Saintes of our Nation to wit S. Edilburge daughter to Annas King of the Eastangles and Abbesse of Brige in France S. Edilburge sister to S. Erconwald Bishop of London and the first Abbesse of this aforsaid Monastery of Barking and this S. Edilburge wherof we now speake Queene of the VVestsaxons All which three being English women by byrth liued togeather within the space of lesse then an hundred yeares B The tenth Day AT Fisciacum in Hennalt the deposition of S. Etto Bishop and Confessour who being an Irishman by byrth and comming out of that Kingdome with S. Furseus and his fellowes went ouer into France and Germany to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith which he did with as great fruite and profit as holinesse of life vntill his dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ six huÌ„dred fifty six His body was afterward translated to Letias in the same Prouince and there is kept vntill this day with great honour and veneration of the inhabitants for the manifold miracles that it hath pleased God in signe of his sanctity to worke therat C The eleuenth Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Dronston Confessour who borne in the same Kingdome of the bloud Royall and vncle to Aidan King of
especially in our Iland of Great Britany He died on this day about the yeare of Christ one thousand and fourty hauing byn Bishop seauenteene yeares was solemnly interred in his owne Church at Canterbury in the raigne of King Hareld of England It is recorded that he going to Rome to fetch his Archiepiscopall Pall brought thence with him an Arme of S. Augustine the Doctor and bestowed it vpon the Abbey of CouoÌ„try in VVarwickshire where the same was kept with great reuerence vntill the tyme of King Henry the eight and decay of that Monastery C The one thirtith Day IN Hennalt the Passion of S. Foillan Bishop and Martyr Sonne to Philtan King of Ireland who-being first a Monke and then Abbot of a Monastery called Knobhersburge in the Kingdome of the Eastangles went to Rome and being there ordayned Bishop by Pope Martyn the first was sent backe into Frace Flanders to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith whereat last as he was exercising of his Pastorall function he was slayne togeather with three other Companions in the Territory of Hennalt in the Diocesse of Namures whose death being reueyled to his brother S. Vltan and S. Gertrude Abbesse of Niuelle his body was presently sought out and being found was with all solemnity brought to the Monastery of Fossis and there is yet conserued with great veneration of the Inhabitants He suffered about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourty THE MONETH OF NOVEMBER A The first Day AT Fulda in the higher Germany the Translation of S. Boniface Archbishop of Mentz and Martyr who borne in the Citty of London and going into Germany to preach the Christian faith went thence to Rome and was there by Pope Gregory the second ordayned the first Bishop of Mentz and sent backe to his Bishopricke where teaching and preaching the faith of Christ to the Germans he conuerted the greatest part of that Countrey became their Apostle He was finally martyred in Frizeland at a towne called Dockum with fifty other companions about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred firty foure His body was afterward of this day translated to the Monastery of Fulda which himselfe had founded where the same is kept with great honour and veneration for the miracles that haue byn wrought therat THE same day in the Monastery of Hampole neere Doncaster in Yorkeshire the CoÌ„memoration of Blessed Richard Confessour Ermite whose singular spirit of piety deuotion is left written and manifest to the world by his owne workes yet extant He was first a Doctor and then leauing the world became an Eremite and led a solitary life neere to the forsaid Monastery of Hampole to which place he was wont often to repayre to sing psalmes and hymnes in honour of God as himselfe testifieth in his workes And after many spirituall bookes and treatises by him wrytten full of great sanctity of life and venerable old age he finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one thousand three hundred fourty and nyne and was buryed at Hampole E The second Day AT Lens in the Prouince of Artoys the 〈…〉 iuity of S. Vulganius Bishop and Confessour who borne in Ireland and going thence with the Saintes Foillan Obodius and others of that Nation into the lower Germanâ— began there to preach the Christian saith and was at last consecrated Bishop Where after infinite labours and trauayles taken for the loue of Christ in propagating his name and faith among the Infidells of those partes in all 〈…〉 ctity and holines of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and foure His body is yet kept with great honour and veneration at the forsaid towne of Lens in the Monastery there of the Chanons-regular where his feast is yearly celebrated on this day with great solemnity and deuotion of the Inhabitantes of that place F The third Day IN North-wales the Deposition of S. VVenefride Virgin and Martyr daughter to a noble Britan of those partes called Trebuith whose head being cut of by Cradocus Sonne to Alane King of North-wales for not consenting to his vnlawfull Iust was by her Maister S. Beno set on againe she liuing fifteene yeares a ter to the admiration of the whole world for so famous a miracle In the place where she was beheaded presently sprang vp a miraculous fountayne very soueraigne for the curing of many diseases which vntill this day is a great pilgrimage and place of deuotion for all Catholickes of England commonly called S. VVenefrides well Her body was afterward translated to Shrewsbury about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred thirty and eight This festiuity of hers was wont to be celebrated in our Catholicke Church of England with an Office of nyne lessons according to the vse of Sarum and in many places kept holiday THE same day at VVilton in Wiâ—â—shire the Translation of S. Edith Virgin daughter to holy Edgar King and Monarch of England who after the death of her Mother VVilfred was ordayned Abbesse of the Monastery of VVilton aforsaid where in all sanctimony and holines of life she gaue vp her soule to rest and was buryed there in the Church of S. Dionyse which herselfe had somtyme built about the yeare of Christ 984. whose body was afterward on this day taken vp and translated to a more eminent place of the same Church wherat it is recorded many miracles to haue byn wrought This woman is commonly called by the name of S. Edith the yonger G The fourth Day IN France the Passion of S. Clâ—re Priest and Martyr who descended oâ— a worthy British stocke and borne in the Citty of Rochester in Kent his worldly friends would haue had him to marry a wife against his will for which he forsaking both CouÌ„trey frieÌ„ds went ouer into Normandy where he taking holy Orders was made Priest and afterward going thence into France for that he refused to yield to the lust of a noble womaÌ„ of that CouÌ„trey was slayne by her procurement in defence of his charity about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and six His body was buryed there in a Village called Volcassine wherat it pleased God in signe of his innocency to worke many miracles A The fifth Day AT Clarâ—uallis in the Territory of LaÌ„gres in France the festiuity of S. Malachy Bishop CoÌ„ 〈…〉 our who being first a Monke o◠〈…〉 hor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then Abbot was after or 〈…〉 ned Bishop or 〈…〉 rthen â—n the same 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Pr 〈…〉 ate oâ— Ireland 〈…〉 e 〈◊〉 and diâ—d in the tyme of S. Bernard â—bout the care of Ch 〈…〉 onâ— thousand one huÌ„d 〈…〉 〈◊〉 eight who wrote vnto him diuers learned 〈◊〉 s as also his whole life yet extant among S. Bernards workes He desceasâ—d the second day oâ— this moneth in the forsaid Monastery of Clareuallis though his 〈…〉 iuity be coÌ„monly celebrated on this day because on
THE ENGLISH MARTYROLOGE CONTEYNING A SVMMARY OF THE LIVES of the glorious and renowned Saintes of the three Kingdomes ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND COLLECTED AND DISTRIBVTED into Moneths after the forme of a Calendar according to euery Saintes festiuity VVHERVNTO Is annexed in the end a Catalogue of those who haue suffered death in England for defence of the Catholicke Cause since King Henry the 8. his breach with the Sea Apostolicke vnto this day By a Catholicke Priest Eccles. 44. Nomen eorum viuet in generationem generationem Their memory shall liue from generation to generation Permissu Superiorum Anno 1608. Ecce Regni Anglia dulcis patriae excidiuÌ„ dolenduÌ„ c. Marâ—yribus Confessoribus c. Behould the lamentable destruction of England so pleasant a Countrey c. An Iland so shining with Martyrs Confessours and holy Virgins that scarcely shall yow passe by any famous Village or streete where yow shall not heare the glorious Name of some new Saint or other c. Matth. Paris in Hist. Angl. Anno 1. Gul. Conquest NVsquam gentium vt opinor reperies c. No where I supose shall yow find so many incorrupted bodyes of Saintes as in England resembling that their euerlasting incorruptibility Which by diuine prouidence I thinke to be therfore so ordayned that a Nation situated almost out of the world should by consideration of their incorruption be more confidently animated to the hope of eternall Resurrection c. Author Continuat Hist. Ven. Bedae l. 2. cap. 30. Vixit anno 1110. EVery corner of S. Augustines Monastery at CaÌ„terbury lieth full of the bodyes of Sayntes and those of no small Name or merit but euen of such as one wherof alone were sufficient to make England famous c. Idem eodem lib. cap. 33. TO THE CATHOLICKS OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND WHEN I had almost brought this little worke to an end deare Catholicke Countreymen I began to thinke with my selfe to whome among many so dearely affected I might make bold to dedicate the same therby the better to patronize that which ouer bold presumption had coÌ„ceyued And though the thing it selfe needed none other Patrons or Protectors then the glorious Saintes themselues of whome we are now to treat yet because I might not seeme in a manner to defraude any heerin of their right interest which I imagined at last I thought it most conuenient that YOW whose hartes and myndes are firmely fixed in the honour and veneration of so glorious and elected wightes and for the imbracing wherof yow daily suffer so great and many persecutions should take vpon yow this Protection for whose comfort and consolation principally next after the honour of the Saintes themselues the same is published I do not heere offer vnto yow any new thing which is alwayes commonly the custome of such to do who dedicate their workes to others but that which so many ages since hath by a certaine inheritance as it were of your forfathers descended still by good right and title vnto yow and shall heerafter vnto your and all posterity Only this that I haue heere gathered togeather and restored vnto yow againe that which the iniury of tymes had violently taken from yow and sought to abolish all memory therof humbly presenting the same as a duty of my loue towards yow my dearest Countrey Wishing yow to take in good part what my poore endeauours haue byn able to produce heerin for your spirituall consolation in these your so great affictions and pressures with desyre to be made partaker of your good prayers This first of October 1608. Yours wholy deuoted I. W. Priest THE CALENDAR IANVARY 1 Midwyne Conf. * Eluane Bish. * 2 A Thousand holy Martyrs * 3 Meltorus Mart. * 4 Croniacke Conf. * 5 Edward King 6 Peter Conf. * 7 Ced Conf. 8 Guithelme Bishop Transl. William 9 Brituald Bishop Adrian Abbot Transl. Iudocus 10 Sethrid Virg. * 11 Egwyne Bishop 12 Benedict Abbot 13 Kentigerne Abbot 14 Beno Confessour * 15 Alfred King * 16 Henry Ermite 17 Milwyde Virg. 18 Deicola Abbot Vlfride Bishop * 19 Wolstan Bishop Henry Bishop 20 Elfred Virg. * 21 Malcalline Abbot 22 Brituald Bishop * 23 Boysill Abbot * 24 Sophias Bishop Cadocke Mart. 25 Conuersion Paul Eoglodius Conf * 26 Theorithgid Virg. * 27 Palladius Bish. * 28 Arwaldi Broth. Mart. * 29 Gildas Abbot 30 Amnichade Conf. 31 Adaman Conf. FEBRVARY 1. BRigit Virgin 2 Laurence Bishop Burchard Bishop 3 Wereburge Virgin 4 Gilbert Conf. Liephard Bish. 5 Iâ—hn Indractus Mart. * 6 Inas King * 7 Richard King Augulus Bishop Transl. Helena 8 Edelsted Virg. * 9 Merigold Mart. 10 Transl. Wiâ—â—rid Bishop 11 William Bish. Canoch Conf. 12 Edilwald Bishop * 13 Ermenild Queene Transl. Kilian B. 14 Conwane Conf. * 15 Sigfride Bishop 16 Tancone Bishop 17 Finan Bishop 18 Iohn Bishop * 19 Acca Bishop * 20 Mildred Virgin Vlsricke Ermite 21 Cymbert Bishop * 22 Transl. Gudwall Bishop 23 Transl. Milburge Virg. 24 Ethelbert King Berectus Conf. 25 Transl. Furseus Abbot 26 Iohn Bishop * Sexulfe Bishop * 27 Alnoth Martyr* Oswald Bishop MARCH 1 Dauid Bishop Switbert Bish. 2 Chad Bishop Willeicke Abb. 3 Wenlocke Abbot Furseus Abbot 4 Wilgise Confess * 5 Frodoline Abbot Kinisdred Virg. Kiniswide Virg. 7 Deifer Ermite * 8 Felix Bishop 9 Bosa Bishop * 10 Himeline Conf. 11 Transl Oswyn King 12 Gregory Pope Fethno Conf. * 13 Vigane Conf. * 14 Ceolnulph King * 15 Aristobulus Bishop 16 Alred Abbot * 17 Patricke Bishop 18 Edward King Christian Bish. 19 Alkmund Mart. * 20 Cuthbert Bish. Herebert Conf. 21 Isenger Bishop * 22 Hamund Bishop * 23 Egbert King * 24 Lansrancke Bishop 25 William Martyr 26 Many holy Martyrs * 27 Archibald Abbot 28 Transl. Fremund King 29 Baldred Conf. * 30 Pattone Bishop 31 Transl. Adelme Bishop APRIL 1 Sadocke Mart. * Adrian Mart. * 2 Ebba Abbesse * 3 Richard Bishop Burgundofora Virg. 4 Guier Priest * 5 Tigernake Bishop Gotebald Bishop * 6 Celsus Confessour Ethelwold King * 7 Sigene Abbot * 8 Duuianus Conf. * 9 Frithstan Bish. * 10 Paternus Confess Eschillus Bishop 11 Guthlacke Conf. 12 Hugh Bishop* Mechtild Virg. * 13 Elfled Virgin * 14 Ethelnulph King * 15 Eleua Oswald Bishop 16 Transl. Alban Protom 17 Marianus Conf. * 18 Oswyn Conf. * 19 Elphege Bishop 20 Ceadwall King Transl. Aldar B. 21 Anselme Bishop 22 Birstan Bishop * 23 George Martyr Etheldred King 24 Mellitus Bishop Egbert Abbot Inuent Iuo B. Tran. Wilfrid B. 25 Obodius Conf. * 26 Modan Confess * Midan Confess * 27 Walburge Virgin 28 Kortill Bishop * 29 Senan Conf. * 30 Erconwald Bishop MAY 1 Assaph Bish. Vltan Abbot 2 German Bishop Piran Conf. * 3 Walter Abbot 4 Ethelred King * 5 Algiue Queene* Scandalaus Conf. * 6 Edbert Bishop Tran. Dubritiu 7 Iohn Beuerley Bish. 8 Wyre Bishop 9 Beatus Conf. 10 Transl. Bede Priest 11 Fremund King Martyr 12 Remigius Bishop 13 Merwyne Virg. * 14 Edith Virg. * 15
Dympna Virg. 16 Symon Confess Transl. Alban Brandan Abbot 17 Transl. 11000. Virgins 18 Sewall Bishop 19 Dunstan Bishop Alcuine Abbot 20 Ethelbert King Mart. 21 Godricke Ermite ConstaÌ„tine Emper. 22 Henry King 23 William Martyr 24 Edgar King * 25 Adelme Bishop 26 Augustine Bishop Fugatius Conf. Damianus Conf. 27 Bede Priest 28 Ionas Abbot * 29 Burien Virg. * 30 Hieu Virg. * 31 Wolstan Martyr IVNE 1 Rufin Mart. * Vlfade Mart. * 2 Malcolme King * 3 Eleutherius Conf. * 4 Patrocke Bishop * 5 Boniface Bishop Mart. Eboam Bishop Mart. Adlar Bishop Mart. Vintruge Priest Mart. Walter Priest Mart. Abelhere Priest Mart. Hamunt DeacoÌ„ Mart. Boso Deacon Mart. Gunderhere M. Mart. Wilhere Monke Mart. Adolph Monke Mart. 6 Gudwall Bish 7 Robert Abbot Transl. Wolstan 8 William Bish. Disibode Bish. 9 Columbe Abbot 10 Tran. Edmund King Margaret Queene Ithimar Bishop 11 Edilwald Conf. * 12 Agatha Virg. * 13 Elerius Abbot * 14 Transl Brandan Abbot 15 Eadburge Virg. Transl. Menigold Mayne Abbot 16 Transl Richard Bishop Leofgar Bishop Mart. 17 Botulph Abbot 18 Dunstan Abbot * 19 Iohn Bishop * 20 Transl. Oswald K. Transl. Edward K. 21 Engelmund Mart. 22 Alban Protomart Souldiar Mart Transl. Ortrude V. 23 Ediltrude Virgin 24 Rumwald Bishop 25 Amphibale Mart. Adalbert Conf. Transl. Lebuine Conf. 26 Nine hundred Mart. * 27 Iohn Conf. Transl. Leuine B. 28 Columbane Monke * 29 Peter Paul Apost Ethelwyne Bishop * 30 Deusdedit Bishop IVLY 1 IVlius Aaron Goluin Bishop 2 Swithin Bishop Oudocke Conf. 3 Transl. Lanfranke B. Guthagon Conf. 4 Odo Bishop 5 Modwene Abbesse Transl. Anselme Bishop 6 Sexburge Abbesse 7 Tran. Thom. of Cant. Hedda Bishop Willebald Bishop Edilburge Virg. Ercongote Virg. 8 Grimbald Abbot Kilian Bishop Colman Mart. Totnam Mart. Erwald Mart. 9 Edilburge Queene 10 Etto Bishop 11 Dronston Conf. * 12 Luane Abbot * 13 Transl. Mildred Virg. 14 Marchelme Conf. 15 Transl. Swithin Bishop of Winch. Plechelme Bishop Eadgith Queene Harrucke Bishop Dauid Abbot 16 Transl. Osmund Bishop 17 Kenelme King Mart. Iohn Abbot Frideg and Conf. 18 Edburge Virgin Transl. Odilia 19 Diman Conf. * 20 Ethelwide Queene * 21 Arbogastus Bishop 22 Wilfrede Queene * 23 Vodine Bish. Mart. * 24 Transl. Lewine Virg. 25 Wiaman Mart. * Vnaman Mart. * Sunaman Mart. * 26 Christian Virgin 27 Ioseph of Arimathia Hugh Martyr 28 Sampson Bishop 29 Lupus Bishop Owen Conf. * 30 Lefrone Abbesse Tacwine Bish. 31 Neoth Conf. AVGVST 1 EEthelwold Bishop Transl. Wenlock 2 Alricke Ermite * 3 Domitius Conf. * 4 Transl. Wallurge Virg. 5 Oswald King 6 Henry Bishop Alexander Conf. * 7 Maude Queene * 8 Fagane Confess * 9 Hugh Bishop 10 Malcus Bishop * 11 Gilbert Confessour * 12 Bertelme Conf. * 13 Wigbert Mart. * 14 Transl. Werenfrid Conf. 15 Margaret Prioresse * 16 Thomas Monke * 17 Thomas Conf. Ieron Martyr 18 Helen Empresse 19 Clintanke King 20 Oswyne King 21 Richard Bishop * 22 Arnulph Conf. * 23 Iustinian Mart. * 24 Alice Prioresse * 25 Ebba Martyr Thom. of Hereford 26 Pandwyne Virgin * 27 Decuman Mart. * 28 Rumbald Conf. * Agnes Virg. Mart. 29 Sebbe King Transl. Edwold 30 Fiaker Conf. 31 Aidan Bishop Cuthberge Abbesse Transl. Eanswide SEPTEMBER 1 Elphege Bishop * 2 Adaman Abbot * 3 Transl. Foillan Bish. 4 Tran. Cuthbert Bish. Marcellus Bishop 5 Altho Abbot * 6 Bega Virgin * 7 Transl. Dunstan Bish. 8 Ethelburge Queene * 9 Queran Abbot Wulfhild Virg. 10 Otger Deacon Conf. 11 Bather Abbot * 12 Eanswide Abbesse Quemburge Virg. * 13 Werenfrid Conf. 14 Bernard Conf. * 15 Chineburg Queene * 16 Ninian Bishop Edith Virgin Martyrs 17 Stephen Socrates 18 Transl. Winocke Abb. 19 Theodore Bishop 20 Cibthacke Confessour * 21 Edilhun Conf. * 22 Higbald Abbot * 23 Hereswide Queene * 24 Transl. Winibald Abb. 25 Ceolfride Abbot 26 Wulsy Abbot Iotaneus Conf. * 27 Sigebert King * 28 Lioba Abbesse 29 Cogan Abbot * 30 Honorius Bishop OCTOBER 1 ROger Bishop Tran. GuthagoÌ„ Wasnulph Conf. 2 Transl. Thom. of Hereford 3 Ewaldi Martyrs 4 Edwyn King Mart. 5 Conwalline Abbot * 6 Ywy Conf. Comine Abbot * 7 Osith Virg. Transl. Hugh B. 8 Transl. Eloquius Keyna Virgin 9 Robert Bishop Gislen Conf. 10 Pauline Bishop Iohn Conf. 11 Edilburge Abbesse Canicke Abbot 12 Wilfrid Bishop 31 Transl. Edward K. Colman Martyr 14 Transl. Burchard Bishop 15 Transl. Oswald B. Tecla Abbesse 16 Lullus Bishop Gallus Abbot 17 Ethelbrit Mart. Ethelred Mart. Tran. Ediltrude 18 Moâ—o Martyr 19 Fridesuyde Virgin Transl. Widebrord Ethbyn Abbot 20 Wendelm Abbot 21 Vrsula Virgin 22 Mellon Bishop Cordula Virg. Dovatus Bish. 23 Syra Virgin * 24 Maglore Bish. Maxentia Virg. * 25 Ardwine Conf. * 26 Eatta Bishop Albuine Bish. 27 Transl. Romwald B. 28 Symon Apostle Alfred King 29 Eadsine Bishop Motiser Conf. * 30 Egelnoth Bishop 31 Foillan Bishop NOVEMBER 1 Transl. Boniface B. Richard Ermite * 2 Vulganius Bishop 3 Wenefride Virgin Tran. Edith Virg. 4 Clare Martyr 5 Malachy Bishop 6 Winocke Abbot 7 Willebrord Bishop Florentius Bishop 8 Willehade Bishop 9 Congilia Abbesse * 10 Iustus Bishop Ioâ—n Bishop 11 Bertuine Bishop 12 Liu 〈…〉 nus Bishop Lebuine Conf. 13 Kilian Bish. Conf. 14 Tran. Erconwald Laurence Bishop Dubriâ—ius Bishop 15 Macloue Bishop Edmund Bishop Margaret Qu. 17 Hugh Bishop Hilda Abbesse 18 Fulke Confess * 19 Ermenburge Queene 20 Edmund K. Mart. Humbert Bishop 21 Columban Abbot 22 Osmane Virgin * 23 Tathar Er 〈…〉 e * 24 Eanflede Queene * 25 Telean Bishop * 26 Egbert Abbot * 27 Oda Virgin 28 Edwold Conf. 29 Barucke Ermite * 30 Withbuge Virgin * DECEMBER 1 DAniel Confess * 2 Neede Virgin * 3Lucius King Birine Bish. Eloquius Conf. 4 Osmund Bishop Emerita Virg. 5 Christine Virgin * 6 Congellus Abbot* Floremina Virg. * 7 Odwald Abbot * Gallanus Conf. * 8 Conception of B. Virg. Agatha Queene * 9 Ethelgine Abbesse * 10 Chined Ermite * 11 Geruadius Bishop * 12 Elfred Virg. * 13 Iudocus Ermite Edburge Virgin 14 Mimborine Abbot * 15 Transl. Hilda Virg. 16 Bean Bishop Tibbe Virgin * 17 Tetta Abbesse * 18 Winibald Abbot 19 Macharias Abbot * 20 Comogel Abbot * 21 Edburge Abbesse * 22 Hidelide Virgin * 23 Imbware Virgin * 24 Ruthius Conf. * 25 Gregory Conf. * 26 Ethelfrede Virg. * 27 Gerrard Confess * 28 Transl. Elphege Bishop 29 Thomas of Canterbury 30 Eustach Abbot * 31 Eternane Conf. * AN ADVERTISMENT OF THE AVTHOR to the Catholicke Reader WHERAS all Bookes good Reader of what subiect soeuer that are published to the view of the world must passe the censures and iudgments of many sortes of people I haue thought it not amisse before thou enter any further into the contentes to giue thee two or three short aduertisments in this place as well therby to preuent all occasions of misconstruction or cauill that any man perchance may take against this little worke or Sanctiloge of myne as also the better to informe thy vnderstanding concerning diuers doubtes or other
A The ninteenth Day AT Hagustalde in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of S. Acca Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who being one of S. VVillebrord his coadiutors and going ouer with him into Saxony and Frizeland for the conuersion of those nations was sent backe againe into EnglaÌ„d to the Consecration of S. Switbert and there detayned and ordayned Bishop of Hagustalde by S. VVilfrid the second of Yorke which pastorall function wheÌ„ he had most worthily performed for many yeares in great sanctity of life and godly conuersation full of venerable old age he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and six B The twentith Day IN the I le of Thanet in Kent the deposition of S. Mildred Virgin daughter to Merualdus King of Mercia who contemning the vayne pleasures of this world went ouer in her tender yeares into France and there dedicated her selfe to God in a Monastery of Virgins at Kale but afterwards returning into England and gathering togeather seauenty other Virgins was consecrated Abbesse of a new Monastery erected in the I le of Thanet by S. Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury where famous for saÌ„ctimony of life miracles she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six huÌ„dred threscore and foure The forsaid Monastery was afterward burned by the Danes with many others in our Iland There is yet to be seene a fayre Church dedicated in her honour in London in the Poultry commonly called S. Mildreds as also an old Chappell yet staÌ„ding erected likewise in her honour in a village or Flaunders called Milà n three miles distant from the Citty of S. Omers THE same day at Haselburrow in VViltshire the deposition of S. Vlfricke Confessor and Eremite whose wonderfull life in prayer and abstinence togeather with working of Miracles was very famous throughout England about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred fifty and foure about which tyme also he died and was buryed in a little Oratory at the forsaid village of Haselburrow which himselfe had built at whose body many miracles are recorded to haue byn wrought C The one and twentith Day IN the I le of Wight in Hampshire the commemoration of S. Cymbert Bishop and Confessour who being a monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict Abbot of the Monastery of Redford in the same Prouince was in the raigne of Ethelhard King of the VVestsaxons ordayned Bishop and placed in the â—le of VVight where he confirmed the people in the Christian faith which S. VVilfride of Yorke had there planted some twenty yeares before in the tyme of his banishment from that Sea where in all kind of most godly conuersation and sanctity of liâ—e he gaue vp his blessed soule to rest about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and thirty D The two and twentith Day AT Gaunt in Flaunders the Translation of S. Gudwall Bishop and CoÌ„fessour who being a noble Britan by birth ordayned Bishop in that Primitiue Church preached incessantly the faith of Christ with great profit in our Iland He built many Monasteryes and became himselfe a Father of an hundred and fourscore monkes And after all this thirsting the good of his neighbour-Countreyes he went ouer into the lower Germany and there taught the Christian faith in like manner with no lesse profit then in Britany And last of all full of venerable old age in great sanctity and holinesse of life he rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ three hundred and fourty and was one of the first of our Iland that preached the Christian faith in Flaunders His body hauing byn brought into England was afterwards on this day in the second persecution of the Danes translated to Gaunt by Arnulph Earle of Flaunders and S. Gerard Abbot in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and threescore Where the same is still preserued with great veneration of the Inhabitants E The three and twentith Day AT VVenlocke in Shropshire the Translation of S. Milburge Virgin daughter to Merualdus Prince of Mercia whose great sanctimony innocency of life it pleased God to manifest vnto the world after her departure by the manifold miracles wrought at her body which being miraculously reuealed to a certaine godly man in the raigne of K. VVilliam the CoÌ„querour was takeÌ„ vp and found sound vncorrupt to the admiratioÌ„ of the behoulders and being put into a costly shrine was kept in the Monastery of VVenlocke which she had built with her owne inheritance vntill the tyme of King Henry the eight when the same was destroyed She departed to our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and foure vpon the six and twentith day of May but her feast is commonly celebrated on this day both in England and other Countreys Her life is wrytten at large by Gotzelinus a monke of the Monastery of S. Bertin in the Citty of S. Omers in Artoys F The foure twentith Day AT Canterbury the deposion of S. Ethelbert King of Kent and Confessour who first of all other Princes in our Iland after the Britans receyued the Christian faith by the preaching of S. Augustine and his fellowes sent from Rome by Pope Gregory the Great He built many goodly Churches and Monasteryes in his dominions and among the rest S. Augustines at Canterbury S. Andrewes at Rochester and S. Paules at London He departed this life in the yeare of Christ six hundred and sixteene and was buryed at Canterbury THE same day in Scotland the depositioÌ„ of S. Berectus Confessour who leading a Monasticall life in that Kingdome was famous for sanctity of life working of miracles about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fourteene about which tyme also he ended his blessed dayes and was buryed in Scotland G The fiue twentith Day AT Perone in Picardy the Translation of S. Furseus Abbot and Confessour sonne to K. Philtan of Ireland who comming into England to Sigebert King of the Eastangles built there a Monastery and gathered many monkes togeather instructing them in all kind of vertue and good learning And then leauing the care therof to his brother called Foillan he went ouer into France and there built another Monastery at Perone where in his venerable old dayes full of great sanctity and holines of life he departed to our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty His body was buryed in the same Monastery of whome the Monkes of that place haue many particular hymnes in their Office the which being taken vp afterwards was on this day translated to a more eminent place of the forsaid Church of Perone where the same is kept with great veneration for the miracles that are recorto haue byn wrought therat A The six and twentith Day AT Constance in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Iohn Bishop Confessour who borne in Scotland
monuments yet remaining erected and dedicated in his honour He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred and foure and lieth buryed in S. Peters Church at Rome THE same day in Scotland the Commemoration of S. Fethno monke and Confessour who being a disciple of S. Columbe the Great of Ireland came with him ouer into ScotlaÌ„d togeather with eleueÌ„ other CoÌ„panions all Irishmen to preach the Christian faith to the Pictes that then inhabited that Kingdome where after their conuersion from Idolatry to the true knowledge of Christ famous for sanctity of life and other vertues he there ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ 580. B The thirteenth Day IN Scotland the CoÌ„memoration of S. Vigane Confelâ—our who deâ—â—â—nded of a very honourable parentage in that Kingdome became there a monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict of the Congregation of Cluniacke whose great learning and vertue hath not only i 〈…〉 rated very much the Order of his Religion but the whole iland also where he was borne There is yet extaÌ„t in diuers libraryes of Europe a famous worke of his intituled Sermones ad populum which he wrote about the yeare of Christ one thousand and two about which tyme also in great sanctity of life and venerable old age he departed to our Lord and was buryed in Scotland C The fourteenth Day Aâ— Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commernoration of S. Ceolnulph King of that Prouince and Confessour who leauing the care of his Kingdome to Eadbert his kinsman and reiecting all worldly pleasures and titles became a monke in the Abbey of Lindisserne where in all kind of 〈…〉 and exemplar good life he spent the rest of his dayes and finally in a good old age there gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and seauen He was afterward buryed in the same place neere to the Venerable body of S. Cuthbert Bishop of that Sea at whose tombe many miracles are recorded to haue byn wrought in witnesse of his sanctity D The fifteenth Day AT Glastenbury in Somersetshire the festiuity of S. Aristobulus Bishop and Martyr who being a noble Roman by birth and one of the first Christians of that Citty as appeareth by S. Paul his salutation of him in his Epistle to the Romans was created Bishop by S. Peter the Apostle and sent by him into Britany to preach the Christian â—aith whereafter he had brought very many erring sheep to Christes fould most gloriously ended his blessed dayes by Maâ—tyrdome about the yeare of Christ threscore and ten His memory hath byn famous in our IlaÌ„d vntill these later tymes of schismes and heresyes as being one of our first Apoâ—tles and Patrons E The sixteenth Day AT Ridall-Monastery the Commemoration of Blessed Alred Abbot and Confessor whose great learning and vertue hath much illustrated the Catholicke Church of Christ but especially our Iland of Great Briâ—any where he was borne liued and died He was first a monke of the venerable Order of S Benedict and afterward became Abbot of an ancient Monastery called Rhieuallis now vulgarly Ridall where in great sanctity of life he ending his blessed dayes reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred threescore foure He wrote the life of King Edward the CoÌ„fessour besides very many other learâ—ed and pâ—ous bookes to the number of one and twenty all which are yet extant to be seene in diuers Libraries as well in England as other Countreyes of Europe F The seauenteenth Day IN Ireland the deposition of S. Patricke Bishop and Confessour Apostle of that Iâ—and who borne in the Territory of Bristow in Somersetshire brought vp at Glastenbury went ouer in his youth into France to S. Martyn his Vncle then Bishop of Towers who was brother to S. Patrickes Mother of whome he was instructed in learning and other vertues afterwards going to Rome was there consecrated Bishop by Pope Celestinus and sent backe to preach the Christian faith in Scotland which he did for a tyme with great fruit of his labour and thence he went into Ireland because at that tyme the greatest part of the Scotts inhabited that Kingdome where he conuerted the whole Iland and so became their Apostle working wonderous miracles among them He liued an hundred and two and twenty yeares obtayning by his prayers that no venemous creature should liue or breed in Ireland and died in the yeare of Christ foure hundred fourscore and one His body was first interred in the towne of Dâ—n in the Prouince of Vlster and afterward translated to the Archbishops Sea of Armachan in the same Kingdome about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred threescore and seauenteene as the ancient Records of Ireland do declare G The eighteenth Day AT Corse-castle in the I le of Purbecke in Dorcetshire the passion of S. Edward K. of the VVestsaxons and Martyr who through the trechery of his step-mother Queene Alfred desyrous that her owne sonne Ethelbert should be King was slayne by certayne souldiers hired by the forsaid Queene to that purpose whilst he was on hunting in the yeare of Christ nyne huÌ„dred threescore and eighteene His body was first interred at VVarham and after at Shastesbury wherat it pleased God in witnesse of his Innocency to worke many miracles And last of all the same was translated to Glastenbury-Abbey in the yeare of Christ one thousand and one THE same day in Ireland the deposition of S. Christian Bishop and Confessour who borne in the same Iland became there first a monke of the Order of Cisterce and scholler to the famous S. Malachy Archbishop Primate of that Kingdome afterward Abbot of Mellisonte and last of all Bishop where in great sanctity of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred fourty and eight whose memory is yet famous throughout Ireland A The ninteenth Day AT Derby the Commemoration of S. Alkmund Martyr sonne to Alred King of Northumberland who being slayne in a battayle against the Duke of VVilâ—on in the behalfe of the Viceroy of VVorcester named Ethelmund that pretended to recouer certayne lands that VVolstan Duke of VVilton detayned from him wrongfully his body presently began to do miracles which being seene and witnessed the same was translated to Derby and there with great veneration interred most solemnly in a Church erected in his honour and called afterwards of his name S. Alkmunds which in former Catholicke tymes hath byn a famous pilgrimage especially for the Northerne people of England He suffered in the yeare of Christ eight hundred B The twentith Day AT Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the deposition of S. Cuthbert Bishop and Confessour who descended of the Kings bloud of Ireland became a monke first of the famous Monastery of Mailros in the Marches of Scotland and
honour He florished about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and eight about which tyme also he desceased C The eight twentith Day IN the Marches of VVales the TranslatioÌ„ of the glorious â—ody of S. Fremund King and Martyr sonne to Ossa King of Mercia who setting aside his crowne and kingdome for the loue of Christ in the second yeare of his raigne became an Eremite in a little IlaÌ„d of the Marches of VVales called in the British tongue Illesage where at last he was slayne by Osway the Apostata in hatred of ChristiaÌ„ Religion in the yeare of Christ seaueÌ„ hundred fourscore and sixteene He being afterward canonized for a Saint in the yeare of our Lord 1157. and raygne of King Henry the third his body was taken vp on this day translated to a more eminent place of the same Church where it lay before wherat it pleased God to worke miracles His principall festiuity is celebrated vpon the eleuenth day of May of whome in that place we haue made mention againe D The nine twentith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Baldred Confessour whose memory in ancient tymes hath byn very famous in that Kingdome For that he hauing sometymes preached to the people of three villages neere adioyning one to the other in Scotland called Aldham Tiningham and Preston was so holy a man of life that when he was dead the people of ech village contended one with another which of theÌ„ should haue his body in so much that at last they not agreeing therabout tooke armes and ech of them sought by force to enioy the same And when the matter came to issue the said sacred body was found all whole in three distinct places of the house where he died so as the people of ech village comming thither carrying the same away placed it in their Churches and kept it with great honour and veneration for the miracles that at ech place it pleased God to worke He liued in the tyme of S. Kentigerne and S. Columbe the Great about the yeare of Christ six hundred and ten about which tyme also he gaue vp his soule to rest in our Lord. E The thirtith Day AT VVerdt in Cleeu-land the depositioÌ„ of S. Pattone Bishop of that Citty and Confessour who descended of a worthy bloud in Scotland was first made Abbot of the Monastery called Amarbaricke in the same Kingdome and thence going ouer into the lower Germany and Saxony was at last consecrated Bishop of VVerdt where in great sanctity of life and other vertues diligently attending to his flocke preaching the Christian faith among them he ended his venerable old dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threscore and two and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church at VVerdt where his body was wont to be kept with great veneration of the Inhabitants F The one thirtith Day AT Malmesbury in VViltshire the Translation of S. Adelmus Bishop Confessour nephew to Inas King of the VVestsaxons who trauayling in his youth into France and Italy through his diligence in studdies attayned to great learning both in the Greeke and Hebrue tongues but especially in Diuinity In the knowledg wherof he was in his dayes accompted excellent After his returne into England he first became a monke of the Order of S. Benedict at Malmesbury and then Abbot of the whole Monastery and afterward going to Rome with King Ceadwall he was there created Bishop of Sherborne by Pope Sergius and sent backe to that Sea where after great labours taken in the Gouernment therof and many notable bookes wrytten for the instruction of men in Christian life he finally reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and nyne whose body was afterward solemnly on this day translated to Malmesbury and there kept in Catholicke tymes with great honour and veneratioÌ„ for the manifold miracles that are recorded to haue byn wrought therat THE MONETH OF APRIL G The first Day AT Pontoyse in France the Commemoratio of the Saintes Sadoch Adrian Priestes Confessours who being Irishmen by birth came ouer into France to preach the Christian faith to the people and inhabitants of Picardy where they were honourably receyued and intertayned by S. Richarius a noble man of that Countrey and afterward Abbot of Pontoyse And when they had laboured in that new haruest for many yeares and reaped therin most aboundant fruite in the conuersion of infinite soules from their Idolatrous superstitioÌ„ to the true worship of one God they finally ended their happy dayes in a venerable old age about the yeare of Christ six hundred and forty Their sacred Reliques are kept vntill this day by the Religious men in the forsaid Monastery of Pontoyse with great veneration of the Inhabitants A The second Day AT Coldingham in the Marches of Scotland the Commemoration of S. Ebba Virgin and Abbesse daugher to Ethelfride King of Northumberland and sister to S. Oswald and Osway Kings of the same Prouince who coÌ„teÌ„ning the vanities of the world became a Religious woman and receyued the holy veyle of chastity at the hands of Blessed Finan Bishop of Lindisserne but afterward building two goodly Monasteryes of her owne one vpon the riuer of Derwent called of her name Ebbecester and the other at the forsaid Coldingham she became Abbesse of the later and ruled the same in all perfection and holines of life hauing very many noble and vertuous virgins vnder her amoÌ„g whome S. Audry Queene and flower of the I le of Ely was one And after she had heaped vp store of heauenly treasure in a good old age she went to her spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and foure whose memory hath in tymes past byn very famous both in England Scotland where many goodly Churches and Chappels haue byn erected and dedicated in her honour and one yet standing to be seene in Oxford commonly called S. Tabbes as also in the forsaid Marches of Scotland neere to ColdinghaÌ„ there is a little port or hauen in the promoÌ„tory of that Prouince still retayning the name of S. Tabbes-head B The third Day AT Chichester in Sussex the deposition of S. Richard Confessour and Bishop of that Sea whose wonderfull life and doctrine ioyned with the greatnes of his miracles hath byn sufficiently manifested to the Christian world He was borne at VVich in VVorcestershire and died at Douer in Kent the ninth yeare of his Presulshippe and yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and three Whose body being brought to Chichester so shined with miracles that among others it is recorded that three dead men were at the same by his meritts againe raised to life He was canonized for a Saint by Pope Vrban the fourth seauen yeares after his death and of Christ 1260. THE same day at Eureux in France the deposition of S. Burgundosora Virgin and Abbesse who descended of a noble
of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of S. Martins at Cullen and afterward at the forsaid towne of Fulda in an Abbey which S. Boniface Archbishop of Mentz had sometimes founded for the Scottish nation where in great holines and sanctity of life he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one thousand and threescore and raigne of K. Edward the Confessour of England He wrote many learned bookes which he left behind him to posterity and are extant to be read in diuers libraryes of Europe The Catalogue wherof yow may see set downe by diuers Catholicke writers in print C The eighteenth Day IN the Marches or borders of Scotland the Commemoration of S. Oswyn Confessour who descended of a noble British parentage conteÌ„ned the vanityes of this world became a monke in an ancient Monastery called Lesting which S. Chad of Lichsield had sometymes founded in the Kingdome of the Northumbers where giuing himself to continuall fasting prayer and other bodyly pennaÌ„ce famous for sanctity of life and miracles he departed this transitory world and reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and ten whose name and holinesse haue byn very memorable in former tymes in our iland of Great Britany especially among the Northerne people and borderers of Scotland D The ninteenth Day AT Green-wich in Kent the passion of S. Elphege Bishop and Martyr who being first Abbot of an ancient Monastery neere Bath in Somersetshire was thence promoted to the Bishopricke of VVinchester after to Canterbury And when the Danes came to inuade his Church of Canterbury and demaunding of him three thousand markes of money he like a good Pastour of his flocke manfully resisted refusing to giue the said summe from his Church Wherfore after seauen moneths imprisonment and diuers kinds of torments he was finally stoned to death at the forsaid towne of Green-wich by the enemyes of truth in the yeare of Christ one thousand and twelue whose body was first brought to London and afterward translated to Canterbury About this tyme also as it is recorded were slayne by the said Danes for the Christian faith six and thirty monkes of S. Augustines Monastery in Canterbury and eight thousand of the lay people in other places of England E The twentith Day AT Rome the deposition of Blessed Ceadwall King of the VVestsaxons and Confessour who before he was yet a Christian himselfe so much reuerenced the Christian Bishops and Clergy of the Church of England that when he had subdued the I le of VVight being Pagan he gaue the fourth part therof to S. VVilfride at that tyme expulsed from yorke wherin he caused him to preach plant the Christian faith afterwards weÌ„t himselfe to Rome was there baptized by Pope Sergius where within a few dayes being yet in his Albes he departed to our Lord on this day in the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and nyne His body lieth buryed in the entraÌ„ce of S. Peters old Church at Rome as the ancient Tables and Records therof do declare wherof you may read S. Bede more at large in his history of England where he setteth downe two Epitaphes engraueÌ„ ouer the forsaid Kings tombe the one in verse the other in prose in memory of so famous an act to all posterity That in verse is this Culmen opes sobolem pollentia regna triumphos Exuuias proceres mania castra lares Quaeue Patrum virtus quae congesserat ipse Ceadual Armipotens liquit amore Dei. Vt Petrum Sedemue Peâ—ri Rex cerneret hospes Cuius fonte meras sumeret Almus aquas Splendificumue iubar radianti carperet haustu Et quo viuisicus sulgor vbiue sluit Percipiensue alacer rediuiâ—ae pramia vitae Barbaricam rabiem nomen inde suum Conuersus conuertit ouans Petrumque vocari Sergius Antistes iussit vt ipse Pater Fonte renascentis quem Christi gratia purgans Protinus ablutum vexit in arce Poli. Mira fides Regis Clementia maxima Christi Cuius consilium nullus adire potest Sospes enim veniens supremo ex Orbe Britanni Per varias Gentes per freta perue vias Vrbem Romuleam vidit Templumue verendum Aspexit Petri mystica dona gerens Candidus inter oâ—es Christi socialibus ibit Corpore nam tumulum mente superna tenet Commutasse magis Sceptrorum insignia credas Quam Regnum Christi promeruisse vides THE same day at Ersord in the higher Germany the Translation of S. Adlar Bishop and Martyr who being an Englishman by birth and a monke in the Kingdome of the Northumbers went ouer into Germany with S. Boniface to preach the Christian faith to that Pagan Nation where being consecrated Bishop of Erford he was togeather with S. Boniface and fifty others slayne by the barbarous people at a towne called Dockum in Frizland for the defence of Christian faith in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fifty and foure His body was afterward on this day translated to Ersord and there is kept with great Veneration of the Inhabitants F The one and twentith Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Anselme Bishop Confessour who borne at Augusta in Burgundy came thence into Normandy to the Abbey of Becke and there became first a monke then Prior and lastly Abbot of the said Monastery And being afterward promoted to the Sea of Canterbury gouerned the same most laudably vntill the tyme of King VVilliam Rufus by whome he was banished the Realme but againe restored by King Henry the first He celebrated two famous Councells at London And after a most holy life ioyned with great piety learning full of venerable old age he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred nyne and sixteenth yeare of his Gouerment and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Canterbury at the head of his predecessour Lanfranke at whose body it hath pleased God to worke many miracles G The two and twentith Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of S. Birstan Confessour and Bishop of that Sea whose godly life and miracles haue much illustrated our Iland of Great Britany There is a story recorded how on a tyme after his death he appeared to S. Ethelwold his successor in the Sea of VVinchester togeather with S. Birine and S. Swithin all in great glory told him That he who was made worthy of so great glory in heauen had no reason to be deâ—rauded of his honour on earth After which tyme S. Ethelwold caused his body to be kept with more veneration reuerence then before He died in great sanctity and holynesse of life about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred forty and foure and was buryed at VVinchester A The three and twentith Day THE Celebrity of S. George Martyr whose feast for that he is Patron of England hath alwayes byn kept holy and serued
among the Welch-men And in Cornwall there is yet a Village and Hauen of his name commonly called S. Senans A The thirtith Day AT London the deposition of S. Erconwald Confessour and Bishop of that Sea sonne to Offa King of the Eastsaxons who being first Abbot of Chertsey in Surrey which himselfe had built was thence promoted to the Bishopricke of London wherin he so excelled in all sanctity and holines of life that it pleased God to manifest the same to posterity by the wonderfull miracles wrought by him both aliue dead He deseased in the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and fiue and was buryed at London He founded another goodly Monastery of Nunnes at Barking in Essex wherof he ordayned his owne sister Edilburge Abbesse The feast of his Translation was wont to be kept in our Countrey in Catholicke tymes with great solemnity vpon the fourteenth of Nouember in which place we haue againe made mention of him especiaâ—ly in the Diocesse of London where it was appointed holy-day as the ancient Recordes of S. Paules Church do declare THE MONETH OF MAY. B The first Day AT S. Assaphs in Flint-shire of VVales the deposition of S. Assaph Confessour and first Bishop of that Sea who of a monke and disciple of S. Kentigerne Abbot of Glasco in Scotland was ordayned Bishop of an old towne in Northwales named Elgoa but afterwards called S. Assaphes of his owne name where he excelled in all kind of vertue and singular holines of life vntill his dying day which happened in a venerable old age about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred fourscore and sixteene THe same day at Fossis in the Territory of Namures in the lower Germany the deposition of S. Vltan Abbot and Confessour sonne to Philtan King of Ireland brother to S. Furseus and S. Foillan who going ouer into France and Flanders built a Monastery or hospitall for the intertaynment of poore pilgrims at a place called Fossis in the forsaid Territory of Namures which he obtayned of S. Gertrude Abbesse of Niuelle And after infinite workes of piety and deuotion in that kind he there finally went to our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore and was buryed at Fossis C The second Day IN the lower Germany the festiuity of S. German Bishop and Martyr who being an Englishman by birth went ouer into the low Countreyes to preach the faith of Christ where finally for his reward he receyued a Crowne of Martyrdome His life is to be read at large in wrytten haÌ„d extant in a Monastery of the Low-Countreyes as testifieth a Reuerend Priest of the Society of Iesus whose festiuity he appointeth on this day in his booke intituled Fasti Sanctorum c. THE same day at Padstow in Corn-wall the Commemoration of S. Piran Confessour who borne in Ireland of a Kings bloud for the loue of God contemned the world and became an â—â—â—mite in that Kingdome leading for many yeares a very strâ—ct and seuere kind of life in so much that it pleased God to worke by him many miracles Among which one is recorded that with the flesh of three kyne he susâ—ayned ten armyes of neÌ„ for eight daye as also raysed diuers dead men to life And after all this he came ouer into England and liued at Padslow in Corn-wall where in great sanctity of life he finally reposed in our Lord and where in like manner his body hath byn kept with great solemnity and veneration in a Chappell of the forsaid towne o Padslow which Chappell is there to be seene vntill this day D The third Day AT Mailros in the Kingdome of Northumberland the deposition of S. Walâ—er Abbot and Confessour sonne to Dauid King of Scotland who forsaking the dignities and honours of the world and refusing the Archbishopricke and Metropolitan Sea of S Andrewes in the same Kingdome became a monke and afterwards Abbot of the goodly Monastery of Mailâ—os situated in the Marches of Scoâ—land in the Kingdome of the Northumbers where in very great sanctity of life and working of miracles he ended his blessed daâ—es about the yeare of Chriâ—â— one thousand and one hundred His memory is yet famous throughout the whole Realme of Scoâ—land where many Chappell 's and altars haue in Catholicke tymes byn dedicated in his honour but now quite destroyed and defaced by the enemyes of Gods truth to the great lamentation of the Christian world E The fourth Day AT Bardney in Lincolnshire the CommemoratioÌ„ of Blessed Ethelred Conâ—essour and King of the Mercians or middle Englishmen who after he had ruled that Kingdome most laudably for thirty whole yeares togeather left the same to Cocured his Nephew contemned the world and tooke the habit of a monke in the Monastery of Bardney of the venerable Order of S. Benedict and afterward became Abbot of the same pâ—ace where he so greatly excelied in all kind of vertue and sanctity of life that his name was very famous in those dayes throughout England He died about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and ten and was buryed in in the same Monastery F The fifth Day AT Shepton in Warwickshire the Commemoration of S. Algiâ—e Queene mother to King Edgar of blessed memory and Monarch of England who so greatly excelled in piety deuotion and other eminent vertues whilst she liued that her body in the yeare of Christ nyne huÌ„dred threescore and fourteene which was some thirty yeares after her death being miraculously reueyled at Shepton it pleased God to worke many miracles therat in testimony of her holinesse increase of deuotion in our Iland of Great Britany THE same day in Ireland the Commemoration of S. Scandalâus moÌ„ke Confessour disciple to S. Columbe the Great of that Nation who comming ouer into Scotland with a dozen other Companions in company of the forsaid S. Columbe for the Conuersion of the Picâ—es who then inhabited that Kingdome was famous for sanctity and holines of life about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and four score about which tyme also he reposed in our Lord. G The sixt Day AT Lindisâ—erne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the deposition of S. Edbert Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who taking vp the venerable body of S. Cuthbert eleuen yeares after his death and finding it altogeather vncorrupt put the same into a new coffin and said Happy were that man who might lye in the old and within a few dayes after full of sanctity and holines of life he being called out of this world was himselfe layd therin according to his wish At whose body it pleased God to worke many miracles in token of the innocency of his life This happened in the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and eighteene THE same day at Landaffa in Clamorganshire the Translation of S. Dubritius Bishop and Confessour who being somtime Archbishop of Carleon vpon Vske and Metropolitan
him of the fact with great sorrow and contâ—ition came to S. Chad and asking him forgiuenes receyued the Christian faith wherupon destroying all the TeÌ„ples of the Idolatrous Gods in his Dominions did in their places build Churches and Monasteryes and amoÌ„g the rest he founded the goodly Abbey of Medeshamsteed now called Peterburrow dedicating the same vnto God and S. Peter the Apostle and enriching it with many and large possâ—ssions F The second Day AT Dunfermelling in Scotland the Commemoration of Bâ—essed Malcoline the third King of that name and husband to the famous S. Margaret Queene of Scotland whose godly workes of piety deuotioÌ„ are famous all to posterity especially to his successors as well in that Kingdome as to other Princes of bloud in Europe He was so zealous in the loue of God that he became more holy then any of his predecessors had byn before him being wholy addicted to the repayring and erecting of Churches Monasteryes and Bishoprickes Moreouer he was accustomed with his Religious Qu. S. Margaret euery day to serue with his owne handes 300. poore people with meate drinke he on the one side and she on the other was the first King of that NatioÌ„ that created Earles in Scotland Which Kingdome after he had gouerned in all vertuous and pious manner for six and thirty yeares coÌ„ming into England was violently oppressed and slayne at Anwicke in the borders of Scotland by Robert Mowbray Earle of Northumber land togeather with his eldest sonne Edward to the great lamentation of his Countrey and was buryed at Dunfermelling in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and twelue G The third Day AT Arke in Apulia in the Kingdome of Naples the Commemoration of S. Eleutherius Confessour who borne of a very good parentage in England and taking his iorney to Hierusalem for deuotion returned thence backe by Italy where for the loue of God he became an Eremite or pilgrime leading a strict and seuere kind of life so far from his natiue Countrey at what tyme the plague infecting sorely those partes full of great sanctity and holynes of life he finally rested in our Lord. His body is kept at the forsaid towne of Arke vntill this day with due honour and veneration of the inhabitants for the Miracles that by his merits it hath pleased God to worke therat and there is visited as chiefe Patrone of the Village A The fourth Day AT Bodmin in Corn-wall the deposition of S. Patrocke Bishop CoÌ„fessour whose most godly life and vertues haue byn very famous in former ages throughout our whole Iland but especially in Corn-wall where his memory is fresh vntill this day and where many altars and Oratories in Catholicke tymes haue byn erected and dedicated in his honour He liued about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and fifty is said to haue byn the first bishop of Corn-well placing his Episcopall Sea at the fornamed towne of Bodmin which Bishopricke was afterwards translated to S. Germans at Cridington now called Kirton in the same Prouince lastly to Excester in Deuonshire by King Edward the CoÌ„fessour in the yeare of Christ one thousand and fifty B The fifth Day AT Dockum in VVest-frizland the passioÌ„ of S. Bonisace Archbishop of Mentz and Apoltic of Germany who being an Englishman by birth went ouer into Germany thâ—ce to Rome where he was created the first Bishop of the forsaid Citty of Mentz and sent thither to preach the Christian faith which he did incessantly for sixteene yeares togeather reducing many thousands from their Idolatry to the true worship of Christ building Churches Monasteryes for the coÌ„tinuation and propagation therof And at last going into Frizland to preach to that people was there â—â—ayne by the enemyes of Christ at the forenamed towne of Dockum in the yeare of our Lord seauen hundred fifty and foure His body was afterward translated to Mentz and there honourably placed in the Monastery of Fulda which himselfe had founded THE same day also and same place the passion of S. Eboam S. Adlar Bishops S. Vintruge S. VValter and S. Adelhere Priests S. Hamunt and S. Boso Deacons S. VVaccare S. Gunderbere S. VVilbere S. Hildebrand and S. Adolph Monkes and others to the number of fifty most of them Englishmen who were with the forsaid S. Bonisace martyred in Frizland for preaching the ChristiaÌ„ faith And as they were his fellowes in trauaile labours of propagating the name of Christ so were they worthy to be made partakers of his Martyrdome Their bodyes are most of them kept at Maestricht vpon the Riuer of Mosa with great veneration of the Inhabitants C The sixt Day IN the Monastery of Blandine neere Gaunt in â—landers the depositioÌ„ of S. Gudwall Bishop and Confessour who borne of a noble and ancient Brittish bloud and despising all worldly honours and preferments built many Monasteryes in our Iland and became Father to an hundred and fourscore moÌ„kes which he instructed in all kind of vertue good learning at last being made Bishop he went ouer into France and Flanders to preach the Christian faith in those parts where famous for sanctity of life and miracles he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ foure huÌ„dred and three His body was first buryed in the forsaid Monastery of Blandine but being afterward brought into England was thence againe in the second persecution of the Danes translated to Gaunt by Arnulph Earle of Flanders and S. Gerrard Abbot about the yeare of our Lord nyne hundred and fifty D The seauenth Day AT Knaresburge in Yorkeshire the deposition of S. Robert Abbot Confessour who borne in the same Prouince became first a moÌ„ke at VVhitby and then at Fountaines and last of all was ordayned Abbot of Knaresburge of the Order of Cisterce whose most holy life coÌ„uersatioÌ„ hath byn wittnessed by the manifold miracles wrought at his body after his death out of which in the time of King Henry the third there distilled a pretious sweet oyle very soueraigne for many diseases He was wont in his life time to recite euery day an hundred and fifty psalmes in honour of Christ and the blessed Virgin Mary He died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand one hundred and fifty was buryed in his owne Monastery THE same day at VVorcester the Translation of S. VVolstan Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose wonderfull life and miracles haue byn famous throughout EnglaÌ„d His body being takeÌ„ vp on this day was found sound vncorrupted togeather with his Pontificall vestments wherin he was buried which was more theÌ„ an huÌ„dred yeares after his death and was very solemnely and with great veneration set in a more eminent place of his owne Cathedrall Church of VVorcester in the yeare of Christ 1218. It is recorded that the said Church being afterward burned by casuall fire the tombe wherin
principall feast be celebrated throughout the Diocesse vpon the first of Iuly with a double office as chiefe Patrone of that Citty He was canonized by Pope Alexander the 4. A The fiue twentith Day AT Verolamium now called S. Albans in Hartfordshire the Passion of S. Amphibale Priest and Martyr who being a noble yong man of Britany going to Rome with Bassianus Sonne to Seuerus Viceroy of the Britans was there by Pope Zepherinus instructed secretly in the Christan faith baptized made Priest and sent backe into Britany there to preach vnto others where he conuerted and baptized S. Alban then high Steward of the Britans for the Roman Emperour And being at last accused for teaching the doctrine of Christ had by the persecutours a hole made in his side and one of his guttes being taken out of his belly fastened to a stake was driuen about the same vntill all the rest were pulled out and woone about the said stake And when he was ready to giue vp the ghost two angells were seene to descend carry his soule vp to heauen There was a fayre Church dedicated in his honour in VVinchester where many miracles haue byn wrought at his Reliques And amoÌ„g others it is recorded that one that had byn dead foure dayes was raised againe to life He suffered about the yeare of Christ 304. being aboue an hundred yeares of age THE same day at Egmond in Holland the deposition of S. Adalbert Priest and Confessour nephew to Oswald King of Northumberland and sonne to K. Edilbald of the South saxons who going ouer into the lower Germany with S. VVillebrord and his fellowes to preach the Christian faith conuerted infinite soules in Holland and is therfore worthily called their Apostle Count Theodore of that Prouince built a goodly Monastery neere vnto Harlem in honour of him whose sonne was afterward cured of a dangerous feuer by the meritts of S. Adalbert He died about the yeare of Christ 705. THE same day in like manner at Dauentry in Gelderland the TranslatioÌ„ of S. Lebuine Priest and Confessour borne of a noble family in England who going ouer also into the Low-Countreyes to preach and instruct the new-made ChristiaÌ„s of those Prouinces after many labours much fruite wrought in that kind he ended there his venerable old dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and threescore His body was afterward on this day translated to Dauentry and there kept with great veneration as chiefe Patrone of that Citty and Diocesse B The six and twentith Day AT Benchor in Ireland the Commemoration of Nine hundred holy Monkes Martyrs who being oppressed by certaine PagaÌ„ Pirates that landed in that Iland were in hatred of Christian Religion slayne and their Monastery robbed and defaced to the great lamentation of all Ireland for that it was in those dayes a common store-house as it were of all good learning and vertue out of which came the Apostles of diuers Prouinces of France Flanders and Germany who reduced them to the Christian faith and true worship of one God Many Authors of forrayne Nations especially do often tymes confound this Monastery of Benchor in Ireland with that of Bangor in Caerneruanshire of North-wales thinking them to haue byn all one wheras they were different and situated in two seuerall Kingdomes C The seauen twentith Day AT Cayon in the Diocesse of Towers in France the deposition of S. Iohn Priest Confessour who being a noble Brytan by birth and refusing all worldly and temporall honors in his Countrey went ouer into France and there built himselfe a little Oratory for his owne priuate deuotion in a solitary place neere vnto Towers where he was very famous for sanctity of life working many miracles both aliue and dead His body was buryed in the same Oratory after his descease about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred thirty and seauen There is a story recorded of a certaine Bay tres that this S. Iohn had there somtymes planted which when after many yeares it withered with age and was cut downe being laid two yeares vnder a wall and serued for a seate â—o sit on was againe put into the ground and through his merits sprong and budded forth a fresh to the admiration of all France THE same day at Gaunt in Flanders the Translation of S. Leuine Bishop and Martyr an Irishman by byrth and disciple to S. Augustine our English Apostle who leauing his Bishopricke which was in Scotland went ouer into Flanders with S. 〈◊〉 and his fellowés where preaching the ChristiaÌ„ faith to the infidels of those partes was by them apprehended and had his tongue cut out of his mouth which being by a miracle immediatly restored him againe he was finally beheaded about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and twelue His body being first interred in a Village of the same Prouince was afterward on this day with great soleÌ„nity translated to Gaunt where being placed in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty is there yet preserued with great Veneration of the inhabitants D The eight twentith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Columbane Monke and Confessour who borne in the same Kingdome of an honourable family contemned the world a 〈…〉 became a monke of the Venerable Order oâ— S. Benedict in Scotland where in great sanctitâ— of life and other vertues therto agreable he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare oâ— Christ six hundred and fourty where also his memory hath byn famous in tymes past hauing had many Chappell 's altars dedicated in his honour This man is differenâ— from the other S. Columbane of Ireland surnamed the Great somtymes Abbot and foundeâ— of the Monastery of Bobia in Lombardy whosâ— feast is celebrated vpon the one twentiâ— day of Nouember E The nine twentith Day AT Rome the Passion of the glorious Apostles S. Peter S. Paul who in the persecution of Nero the Emperour were on one and the selfesame day put to death S. Peter being fastened to a Crosse with his head down ward and S. Paul beheaded Of these two Apostles it is recorded by diuers very ancient wryters that about the yeare of Christ threscore and seauen they came both personally into our iland of great Britany and there preached the Christian faith founded Churches ordayned Priests and Deacons and therfore may worthily be called our Apostles of whome we haue receyued so great benefitts There are very many Churches in our Countrey dedicated in their honour as speciall Patrons of our Iland And in the tyme of King Edward the Confessor S. Peter appearing to a very holy man shewed him that himselfe had sometymes preached in Britany and consequently the speciall care he had of that Church and Countrey THE same day at Lindisferne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of S. Ethelwyne Bishop and Confessour who of a Monke of S. Benedicts Order in S. Columbes Monastery
where being finally slayne by certaine Pâ—gan theeues in hatred of his Religion he happily attayned to the palme oâ— Martyrdome His body is buryed in the forsaid Village of Nassoin belonging to the Abbey of S. Huvert in a Church which himselfe had there somtyme buâ—lt and is kept with great veneration oâ— the Inhabitants of that place E The ninteenth Day AT Oxford the DepositioÌ„ of S. Frideswide Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Didan Duke of Oxford who being soâ—licited by one Algarus a noble yong man to yield vnto his â—ust escaped miraculously his violence he being on the suddaine stroken blynd by Gods Iustice for offering the same She was afterward made Abbesse of a Monastery erected by her Father in the same Citty which Monastery in the tyme of King Henry the first was conuerted to a Priory of Chanous Regular and so continued vntill King Henry the 8. when as Cardinall VVolsey obtayned the same of the Pope towards the founding of Christs-Colledge which is now built in the same place She died in all sanctimony and holines of life about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and nyne There is an ancient Chappell yet to be scene dedicated in her honour in a Village of Artoys caâ—led Bomy some foure leagues diâ—tant from the Citty or S. Omers where her festiuity is kept with due veneration of the Inhabitants THE same day at Maestricht in Brabant the Translation of S. VVillebrord the first Bishop of that Sea and Conâ—essour who being borne in Yorkeshire went ouer into the low Countreyes with a dozen other Companions all holy men and conuerted the greatest part of those Prouinces to the Christian faith and so became their chiefe Apostle He died in all sanctity and holines of life about the yeare of Christ 736. and was afterward on this day translated to Maestrcht and there is kept with great honour and veneration as principall Patron oâ— that Diocesse where also his feast is celebrated with an Office of nyne lessons ALso the same day in Ireland the Deposition of S. Ethbyn Abbot and Confessour whose godly life and miracles haue in tymes past byn famous through the Countreys round about He died about the yeare of Christ six hundred and ten F The twentith Day AT Toleys in France the deposition of S. VVendelyn Abbot Conâ—eâ—sour Sonne to the King of Scotland who forsaking all temporall preferments and his owne inheritance to that Crowne and Kingdome went ouer into France and there became a Religious man and afterward Abbot of the Monastery of Toleys where famous for sanctity of life and Miracles he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred twenty and there lieth solemnly intombed Ouer whose body is also built a goodly Chappell which for the coÌ„course of people that come thither on deuotion to visit the same and the miracles that are dayly wrought therat the Towne is now coÌ„monly called by the name of S. VVendelyns G The one and twentith Day AT Cullen in the higher Germany the Passion of S. Vrsula Virgin and Martyr daughter to Dionocus King of Cornwall who togeather with an eleuen thousand other British Virgins as ancient Authors do recount being shipped at London to passe ouer into France to be maried there to two Legions of British souldiers vnto whome Maximus that was by them chosen Emperour had giuen the Countrey of Armorica were by a contrary wynd driuen downe to the mouth of the Riuer oâ— Rhene and there neere vnto Cullen were all slayne by the barbarous Hunnes and Pictes in defence of their Virginity about the yeare of Christ three hundred fourscore and three Most of their bodyes were brought to Cullen and there interred with great honour and veneration and their memoryes celebrated vpon this day throughout the Christian world There was afterward a goodly Church built in Cullen in their honour called the Church Of the holy Virgins which alwayes hath byn had in such reuerence among the Inhabitants that they neuer buried any other body there Neyther will the ground or earth of that Church receyue any other body no not the corpes of yong Infants newly baptized but as if were vomiting them vp againe in the night they will be cast aboue ground as hath oftentymes byn tried A The two and twentith Day AT Roane in France the Deposition of S. Mellon Bishop and Con â—â—â—ouâ— who being a noble Britan by byrth and sent to Rome in the tyme of Valerian the Emperour to pay Tribute for the Kingdome of Britany was by Pope Stephen instructed in the Christian faith and baptized and after created the first Bishop of Roane and sent into France to his Bishopricke where in all kind of sanctity oâ— life miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ two hundred and fourscore His body is kept vntill this day at Roane in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty neere to the body of S. Nicasius with great honour veneration of the Inhabitants THE same day at Cullen the passion of S. Cordula Virgin and Martyr one of the eleuen thousand that suffered with S. Vrsula who being terrified the first day with the slaughter of her companions hid herselfe but on the morrow repenting her therof discouering herselfe to the Hunnes was finally also crowned with Martyrdome about the yeare of Christ 383. Allerâ—us Magnus caused her body to be brought to Cullen where the same is kept with great honour ALso the same day at Fesuli in Tuscane the Deposition of S. Donatus Bishop and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of an honourable family was created Bishop of Fâ—sâ—li where famous for sanctity oâ—â—â—fe and miracles in a good old age he happily repâ—sed in our Lord. His feast is kept at Fesâ—li a orsaid on this day with great solemnity and deuotion of the Inhabitants B The three and twentith Day AT the Monastery of Brige neere Paris in France the Commemoration of S. Syra Virgin daughter to K. Eugenius the fourth of Scoâ—land who reiecting all worldly poÌ„pe preferments in her tender yeares went ouer into France with her brother S. â—iâ—ker where the receyuing the holy veyle of Cnastity became a Religious woman in the forsaid Monastery of Brige vnder S. Phara Abbesse therof where excelling in all kind of sanctimony of life and godly conuersation especially in the vertue of humility she gaue vp her pure soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty and was buryed in the same place C The foure twentith Day AT Paris in France the festiuity of S. Maglore Bishop and Confessour who being a noble Britan by birth and kinsman to S. Sampson succeeded him afterward in his Bishopricke of Dole in little Britany and last of all became an Ermite in France where leading a strict and austere kind of life famous for miracles he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ
eighteenth Day AT Santo-Padre a Village in the Kingdome of Naples the Commemoration of S. Fulke CoÌ„sessour who being an English-man by byrth and descended of a noble family in our Iland tooke vpon him for the loue of Christ a long peregrination to visit the holy Sepulcher at Hierusalem And as he returned homeward by Italy the plague at that tyme sorely raging in those partes in very great sanctity and holines of life he receyued the reward of his labour and ended his blessed dayes in rest His body is vntill this day kept with great honour and veneration in the forsaid Village called by the ItaliaÌ„s Santo-Padre for the manifold miracles that are dayly wrought therat wherby the same place is now become a pilgrimage of deuotion to visit his body especially among the Neapolitans and people of Calabria A The ninteenth Day IN Kent the festiuity of S. Ermenburge Queene and Abbesse daughter to Ercombert King of Kent and wife to Merualdus King of the Mercians or midle Englishmen and mother to the three famous Virgin-Saintes Milburge Mildred and Milwyde who hauing built a goodly Church and Monastery in Kent in honour of her two kinsmen Ethelbrit and Ethelred Martyrs gathered togeather seauenty other Virgins and holy women and with consent of her husband entred into the same as Abbesse and Gouernesse of the rest where in all sanctimony of life and vertuous conuersation she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and foure and was buryed in the same place B The twentith Day AT Hexam in Northumberland the Passion of S. Edmund King and Martyr who being a Saxon by bloud borne in the Citty of Noremberge in that Prouince and nephew to Ossa King of the Eastangles was by him adopted successour and heyre of that Kingdome And when had most Christianlike gouerned the same for fifteene yeares was in the first Danish persecution vnder the Captaines Hinguar and Hubba for the Confession of Christ first whipped sorely and then tied to a tree and his body shot full of arrowes was finally beheaded Whose head the Danes carrying into a wood neere by cast among briars and bushes And when the Tyrants forsooke those partes and the Christians seeking for the same lost themselues in the forsaid wood and one calling vpon another asking with a loude voyce VVhere art where art where art the blessed Martyrs head answered Heere Heere Heere By which miraculous voyce they found out the same He suffered in the yeare of Christ eight hundred and seauenty THâ— same day and same place also the passion of S. Humbert Bishop and Martâ—â— who being Counsellour and companion to the â—orsaid King Edmund in the administration of his Kingdome deserued to be made partaker with him of his martyrdome so obtayned a crowne of glory in the yeare oâ— our Lord aboue mentioned C The one and twentith Day AT Bobia in Lombardy the deposition of S. Columbâ— Abbot and Confessour who being an Irishman by byrth and first a monke then Abbot of the Monastery of Benchor in the fame Kingdome went ouer into France there founded a Monastery at Luxouium and thence passing into Italy he there also founded another at Bobia by the helpe of Agilulph King of the Lombards of which himselfe became Abbot And after all these and diuers other labours and toyles taken for the aduancement of Christian Religion in Gods Church full of wonderfull sanctity of life and miracles he ended his venerable dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourteene and was buried in the forsaid Monastery of Bobia D The two and twentith Day IN France the CoÌ„memoration of S. Osmane Virgin descended of the Bloud Royall of Ireland whose parentes being Pagans she notwithstaÌ„ding in her tender years was priuately instructed in the Christian faith But afterward being to be espoused to a Noble maÌ„ of the same Kingdome but an Ethnicke forsooke both Countrey and friends and fled secretly ouer into France accompanied only with a mayd-seruant that wayted on her called Aclitenis where in a wood neere to the Riuer of Loyre she liued a very austere life being clad with a coate made of bulrushes and feeding her hungry body only with hearbes It chanced one day that a wild boare being chased in that wood by the hunters came running to her as it were for succour The huntesmen eagerly pursuyng the beast stroke him with their speares with all their force but could not once pearce his skynne Heerupon the Virgin being discouered was suspected to be a witch being brought to the Bishop and found to belieue in Christ was by him baptized had a little territory assigned her a Gardener appointed to cultiuate the same for her bodily reliefe and sustenance who being on a tyme deluded by the diuell to attempt some thing against her was by diuine iustice suddainly stroken blynd wherof he repenting himselfe was by her prayers againe restored to his sight And so she perseuering a longe tyme in that holy conuersation full of sanctimony of life was finally called thence vnto Christ her spouse whome she had so entyrely loued and serued E The three and twentith Day AT Chepslow 〈◊〉 MoÌ„mouthshire of VVales the CoÌ„memoratioÌ„ of S. Tathar Confessour and Eremiteâ— who being descended of a noble British lynage coÌ„temned the world became an Ermite in the Mountaynes of Monmouthshire in the raigne of Cradocke King of South-wales about which tyme also in great sanctity of life and miracles he ended his blessed dayes He built of his owne inheritance a goodly Church in the forsaid Towne of Chepstow togeather with a fayre Schoole for the education of youth in learning and vertue for which his memory is yet famous in our Iland especially among the ancient Britans of South-wales F The foure twentith Day AT Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of Blessed Eanslede Queene daughter to Edwyn and wife to Oswy Kinges of Northumberland who after the death of her Lord and husband setting aside all worldly pompe and pleasure tooke a Religious habit and became a Nunne in the Monastery of S. Peter at the forsaid place of Strenshalt vnder the care and Gouernement of her owne daughter Ethelfred that then was Abbesse of the same Where in all kind of profound humility sanctimony of life and other vertues she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourscore G The fiue twentith Day AT Landaffa in Clamorganshire of VVales the Commemoration of S. Telean Martyr and second Bishop of the same Sea whose rare life learning other eminent vertues haue in tymes past byn famous throughout England especially among the ancient Britans of our Nation where his memory is fresh euen vntill this day He was very nobly borne and brought vp vnder S. Dubritius Archbishop and Metropolitan of VVales togeather with S. Dauid And a little after his comming
August Altho Abbot 5. Septemb. Amnichade Conf. 30. Ian. Amphibale Mart. 25. Iune Anselme B. 21. Apr. 5. Iuly Arbogastus Bishop 21. Iuly Archibald Abbot 27. March Ardwyne Conf. 25. Oct. Aristobulus Bish. 15. Mar. Arnulph Conf. 22. August Arwaldi martyrs 28. Ian. Assaph Bishop 1. May. Audry vide Ediltrude Augulus mart 7. Febr. Augustine Bishop 26. May. B BAldred Conf. 29. March Barucke Conf. 29. Nou. Bather Conf. 11. Septemb. Bean Bishop 16. Decem. Beatus Conf. 9. May. Bede Priest 10. 27. May. Bega Virgin 6. Sept. Benedict Abbot 12. Ian. Beno Conf. 14. Ian. Berectus Conf. 24. Febr. Bernard Conf. 14. Sept. Bertelme Ermite 12. Aug. Bertuine Bishop 11. Nouemb. Birine Bishop 3. Decemb. Birstan Bishop 22. April Boniface B. 5. Iune 1. Nouem Bosa Bishop 9. March Boso Mart. 5. Iune Botulph Abbot 17. Iune Boysil Abbot 23. Ian. BraÌ„dan Abb. 16. May 14. Iun. Brigit Virg. 1. Febr. Brituald of Canterb. 9. Ian. Brituald of VVinch 22. Ian. Burchard B. 2. Feb. 14. Oct. Burgundosora Abbesse 3. Apr. Burien Virg. 29. May. C CAdocke mart 24. Ian. Canicke Abbot 11. Octob Canoch Conf. 11. Feb. Ceadwall King 20. Apr. Ced Bishop 7. Ian. Celsus Bishop 6. Apr. Ceolfride Abbot 25. Sept. Ceolnulph King 14. Mar. Chad Bishop 2. Mar. Chinede Ermite 10. Dec. Chineburge Queene 15. Sept. Christian Bish. 18. Mar. Christian Virg. 26. Iuly Christine Virg. 5. Decemb. Clare Mart. 4. Nouemb. Clintanke K. mart 19. Aug. Cogan Abbot 29. Sept. Colman Bishop 13. Octob. Colman mart 8. Iuly Columbe Abbot 9. Iune Columbane Abbot 21. Nou. Columbane Monke 28. Iune Conine Abbot 6. Octob. Comogel Abbot 20. Decemb. CoÌ„ception of our B. Lady 8. De. Congellus Abbot 6. Decemb. Congilla Abbesse 9. Nou. Constantine Emp. 21. May. Conwalline Abbot 5. Octob. Conwan Conf. 14. Feb. Cordula Virg. 22. Oct. Chroniacke Conf. 4. Ian. Cuthbert B. 20. Mar. 4. Sept. Cuthberge Abbesse 31. Aug. Cymbert Bish. 21. Febr. Cyhthacke Conf. 20. Sept. D DAmianus Conf. 26. May Daniel B. 1. Decem. Dauid Bish. 1. March Dauid Conf. 15. Iuly Decuman Mart. 27. Aug. Deicola Abbot 18. Ian. Deifer Conf. 7. March Deusdedit Bishop 30. Iune Diman Conf. 19. Iuly Disibode Bish. 8. Iune Domitius Conf. 3. Aug. Donatus Bish. 22. Octob. Dronston Conf. 11. Iuly Drusa Mart. 5. Febr. Dubritius B. 6. May. 14. Sept. Dunstan B. 19. May. 7. Sept. Dunstan Abbot 18. Iune Duuianus Conf. 8. April Dympna Virg. Mart. 15. May. E EAdgith Queene 15. Iuly Eadsine Bish. 29. Octob. Eadware Virg. 23. Decem. Eanslede Queene 24. Nou. Eanswide Abbesse 31. Aug. 12. Sept. Eatta Bishop 26. Octob. Ebba Mart. 25. August Ebba Virg. 2. April Eboam Martyr 5. Iune Edbert Bish. 6. May. Edburge of VVilson 15. Iune Edburge of Edburton 18. Iuly Edburge of Kent 13. Dec. Edburge of Peterb 21. Dec. Edelfled Abbesse 8. Febr. Edgar King 25. May. Edilburge Queene 9. Iuly Edilburge of Brige 7. Iuly Edilburge of Barking 11. Oct. Edilhun Conf. 21. Sept. Ediltrude Q 23. Iun. 17. Oct. Edilwald Bish. 12 Febr. Edilwald Ermite 11. Iune Edith of Polleswor 14. May. Edith of Wilton 16. Sept. 3. Nouemb. Edmund King Mart. 10. Iune 20. Nouemb. Edmund Bishop 16. Nouemb. Edward K. mart 18. March 20. Iune Edward K. Conf. 15. Ian. 10. Octob. Edwold Conf. 29. Aug. 28. Nouemb. Edwyn King mart 4. Octob. Egbert King 23. March Egbert Abbot of Scot. 24. Apr. Egbert Abb. of Eulda 26. Nou. Egelnoth Bish. 30. Octob. Egwine Bish. 11. Ian. Elerius Abbot 3. Iune Eleutherius Conf. 3. Iune Elsled Virg. 13. April Elsled Abbesse 20. Ian. Elfred Virg. 12. Decemb. Eloquius Conf. 8. Oct. 3. Dec. Elphage B. of Winchest 1. Sept. Elphege B. of Cant. 19. Apr. 28. Decem. Eluane Bishop 1. Ianuar. Emerita Virg. Mart. 4. Dec. Engelmund Mart. 21. Iune Eoglodius Conf. 25. Ian. Erconwald B. 30. Ap. 14. No. Ercongote Abbesse 7. Iuly Ermenburge Queene 19. No. Ermenild Queene 13. Febr. Erwald Mart. 8. Iuly Eschillus Mart. 10. Apr. Ethbyn Abbot 19. Octob. Ethelburge Queene 8. Sept. Ethelbert King Conf. 24. Feb. Ethelbert King Mart. 23. May. Ethelbrit Mart. 17. Octob. Ethelred Ethelsrede Virg. 26. Decemb. Ethelgiue Abbesse 9. Decemb. Ethelnulph King 14. Apr. Ethelred K. Mart. 23. Apr. Ethelred K. Abbot 4. May. Ethelwide Queene 20. Iuly Ethelwold K. Mart. 6. Apr. Ethelwold Bish. 1. Aug. Ethelwyne Bish. 29. Iune Eterâ—ane Conf. 31. Dec. Etto Bishop 10. Iuly Eustach Conf. 30. Decemb. Ewaldi Mart. 3. Octob. F FAgan Conf. 8. August Felix Bishop 8. March Fethno Conf. 12. March Fiaker Conf. 30. August Finan Bish. 17. Febr. Florentius Bish. 7. Nouemb. Florentina Virg. Mart. 6. Dec. Foillan B. 3. Sept. 31. Oâ—â—ob Fremund K. Mart. 24. March 11. May Fridegand Conf. 17. Iuly Frideswide Virg. 19. Octob. Frithstan Bishop 9. April Frodoline Abbot 6. March Fugatius Conf. 26. May. Fulke Conf. 18. Nouem Furseus Abbot 25. Febr. 4. March G GAllanus Conf. 7. Dec. Gallus Abbot 16. Octob. Gerard Conf. 27. Decemb. Gereberne Mart. 15. May. German Bish. 2. May. George Mart. 23. Apr. Geruadius Bish. 11. Decemb. Gilbert Bish. 11. Aug. Gilbert Conf. 4. Febr. Gildas Abbot 29. Ianuar. Gislen Conf. 9. Octob. Godricke Ermite 21. May. Goluin Bishop 1. Iuly Gotebald Bish 5. Apr. Gregory Pope 12. March Gregory Conf. 25. Decem. Grimbald Abbot 8. Iuly Gudwall Bishop 22. Feb. 6. Iune Guier Conf. 4. Apr. Gunderhere Mart. 5. Iune Guthagon Conf. 3. Iuly 1. Oct. Guithelme Bish. 8. Ianuar. Guthlacke Conf. 11. Apr. H HAmund Bishop 22. March Hamunt Deacon 5. Iune Harrucke Bishop 15. Iuly Hedde Bish. 7. Iuly Heiu Virg. 30. May. Helena Empresse 7. Febr. 18. Aug. Henry â—rmite 16. Ian. Henry of Opslo 19. Ian. Henry of VVinchest 6. Aug. Henry King 22. May. Herebert Conf. 20. March Hereswide Queene 23. Sept. Higbald Abbot 22. Sept. Hilda Ab. 17. Nou. 15. Dec. Heldelide Abbesse 22. Decem. Hildebrand Mart. 5. Iune Himeline Conf. 10. March Honorius Bish. 30. Sept. Hugh Mart. 27. Iuly Hugh B. of Ely 9. August Hugh B. of Lincolne 17. Nou. 7. Octob. Hugh B. of Roane 12. Apr. Humbert Bish. 20. Nouemb. I IEron Mart. 17. August Inas King 6. Febr. Indractus Mart. 5. Febr. Inthware Virg. 23. Decemb. Iohn of Beuerley 7. May. Iohn Conf. 27. Iune Iohn Abbot 17. Iuly Iohn of Leâ—is 5. Febr. Iohn of Birlington 10. Octob. Iohn of Constance 26. Febr. Iohn of Saltzburge 18. Febr. Iohn of Michelmburge 10. No. Iohn of Ely 19. Iune Ionas Abbot 28. May. Ioseph of Arimathia 27. Iuly Iotaneus Conf. 26. Sept. Isenger Mart. 21. March Ithimar Bish. 10. Iune Iudocus Ermite 9. â—anuar 13. Decemb. Iulius Mart. 1. Iuly Iuo Bish. 24. April Iustus Bishop 10. Nouemb. Iustinian Mart. 23. Aug. K KEnelme King 17. Iuly Kentigerne Abb. 13. Ian. Keyna Virgin 8. Octob. Kilian Mart. 13. Febr. 8. Iuly Kilian Conâ— 13. Nouemb. Kinisdred Virgins 6. Mar. Kinisâ—ide Kinneburge Queene 15. Sept. Kortil Bish. 28. April L LAnfranke Bishop 24. March 3. Iuly Laurence Bish. of Canterb. 2. Febr. Laurence B. of Dublyn 14. Nouemb. Lebuine Bish.
25. Iune 12. Nouemb. Lefrone Abbesse 3. Iuly Leofgar Mart. 16. Iune Leuine Bish. 27. Iune 12. Nouemb. Lewyne Virg. Mart. 24. Iuly Liephard Mart. 4. Febr. Lioba Abbesse 28. Sept. Luane Abbot 12. Iuly Lucius King 3. Decemb. Lullus Bish. 26. Octob. Lupus Bishop 29. Iuly M MAcharius Abbot 19. Decemb. Macloue B. 15. Nouemb. Maglore Conâ— 24. Octob. Maine Abbot 15. Iune Malachy Bish. 5. Nou. Malcaline Abbot 21. Ian. Malcus Bish. 10. Aug. Malcolme King 2. Iune Marcellus Bish. 4. Sept. Marchelme Conf. 14. Iuly Margaret Prioresse 15. Aug. Margaret Queene 10. Iune 16. Nouemb. Marianus Conf. 17. April Martyrs at Lichfield 2. Ian. Martyrs at Benchor 16. Iune Martyrs at Bardney 26. Mar. Maude Queene 7. August Maxentia Virg. 24. Octob. Mechtild Virg. 12. Apr. Meliorus Mart. 3. â—an Mellitus Bishop 24. Apr. Mellon Bish. 22. Octob. Menigold Mart. 9. Feb. 15. Iune Meresine Conf. 17. Ian. Merwyne Virg. 13. May. Midane Conf. 26. April Midwyne Conf. 1. Ianuar. Milburge Virg. 23. Febr. Mildred Virg. 20. Feb. 13. Iul. Milwide Virg. 17. Ian. Mimborine Abbot 14. Decem. Modane Conf. 26. Apr. Modwene Abbesse 5. Iuly Mono Mart. 18. Octob. Motiser Conf. 29. Octob. N NEoth Conf. 31. Iuly Ninian B. 16. Sept. O OBodius Ermite 25. Apr. Oda Virg. 27. Nou. Odilia Virg. 18. Iuly Odo Bish. 4. Iuly Odwald Abbot 7. Decemb. Ortrude Virg. 22. Iune Osith Virg. 7. Octob. Osmane Virg. 22. Nouem Osmund B. 16. Iuly 4. Dec. Oswald King 20. Iune 5. Aug. Oswald Bish. 28. Febr. 15. April 15. Octob. Oswyn King Mart. 11. March 20. August Oswyn Conf. 18. April Otger Deacon 10. Sept. Oudocke Bishop 2. Iuly Owen Conf. 29. Iuly P Palladius Bish. 27. Ian. Paâ—dwine Virg. 26. Aug. Paternus Conf. 10. Apr. Pattone Bish. 30. Marâ—h Patricke Bishop 17. March Patroke Bishop 4. Iune Paul Apost 25. Ian. 29. Iune Pauline Bish. 10. Octob. Peter Apost 29. Iune Peter abbot 6. Ian. Piran Conf. 2. May. Plechelme Bish. 15. Iuly Q QVemburg Virg. 12. Sept. Queran Abbot 9. Sept. R REmigius Bish. 12. May. Richard King 7. Febr. Richard of Chichester 3. Apr. 16. Iune Richard of Calabria 21. Aug. Richard Ermite 〈◊〉 Nouemb. Robert Bish. 9. Octob. Robert Abbot 7. Iune Roger Bish. 1. Octob. Romwald Bish. 24. Iune 27. Octob. Ruâ—in Martyr 1. Iune Rumbald Conf. 28. Iune Ruthius Conf. 24. Decemb. SAdoch Conf. 1. Apr. Sampson Bish. 28. Iuly Scandalaus Conf. 5. May. Sebbe King 29. August Senan Conf. 29. April Sethrid Virg. 10. Ian. Sewall Bishop â—8 May. Sexburge Virg. 6. Iuly Sexulse Bish. 27. â—ebr Sidwell Virg. 23. April Sigene Abbot 7. April Sigebert King 27. Sept. Sigâ—ride Bish. 15. Feb. Sopâ—ias Bish. 24. Ian. Souldier Mart. 22. Iune Socrates Mart. 17. Sept. Stephen Switbert Bish. 1. March Swithin Bishop 2. 15. Iuly Sunaman Mart. 25. Iuly Symon Apost 28. Octob. Symon Conf. 16. May. Syra Virg. 23. Octob. T Taâ—win Bish. 30. Iuly Tancone Bish. 16. Febr. Tathar Conf. 23. Nouemb. Tecla Abbesse 15. Octob. Telean Bish. 25. Nou. Tetta Abbesse 17. Decemb. Theodore Bish 19. Sept. Theorithgid Virg. 26. Ian. Thomas of Canterb. 7. Iuly 29. Decemb. Thomas of Hereford 25. Aug. 2. Octob. Thomas of Northum 17. Aug. Thomas Monke 16. Aug. Tigernake Bish. 5. April Totnan Mart. 8. Iuly Tibbe Virg. 16. Decemb. Transâ— of 11000. Vir. 17. May V VIgane Conf. 13. March Vintruge Mart. 5. Iune Vlâ—ade Mart. 1. Iune Vlsricke Ermite 20. Feb. Vlâ—ride Bishop 18. Ian. Vltan Abbot 1. May. Vnaman Mart. 25. Iuly Vodine Bishop 23. Iuly Vrsula Virgin 21. Oct. Vulganius B. 2. Nouemb. W VVAccare 5. Iune Walburge Virg. 27. Apr. 4. August Walter Abbot 3. May. Walter Mart. 5. Iune Wasnulph Conf. 1. Octob. Weede Abbesse 2. Decemb. Wendelin Abbot 20. Octob. Wenlocke Abbot 3. March Wenefride Virg. 3. Nou. Wereburge Virg. 3. Febr. Werenâ—ride 14. Aug. 13. Sep. Wiaman Mart. 25. Iuly Wigbert Conf. 13. Aug. Wilfride of Yorke 24. April 12. Octob. Wilfride of VVorcester 10. Febr. Wilfred Queene 22. Iuly Wilgise Conf. 5. March Wilgith Virg. 23. Decemb. Willeicke Conf. 2. March Willebrord Bish. 19. Octob. 7. Nouemb. Willebald Bish. 7. Iuly Willehade Bish. 8. Nouem Wilhere Mart. 5. Iune William of Yorke 8. Ianuar. 8. Iune William of Rochester 23. May William of Norwich 25. March William of Tyre 11. Feb. Winfride Abbot 6. March Winibald Abbot 24. Sept. 10. Decemb. Winocke Abbot 8. Sept. 6. Nouemb. Wolstan Bishop 19. Ianuar. 7. Iune Wolstan Mart. 31. May. Wulf hild Abbesse 9. Sept. Wulsy Abbot 26. Sept. Wyre Bishop 8. May. Y YVVy Deacon 6. Octob. THE AVTHORS Alleaged in this Booke out of whome the former Saintes Liues are gathered Abbo Floriacensis Adam Bremensis Ado. Alanus Copus Albertus Crantzius Albertus Stadensis Albinus Flaccus Almannus Monachus Aloysius Lippomannus Alredus Rhieuallensis Andreas Leucander Annales Baroniani Annales Heluetiorum Antonius Demochares Arnoldus Mirmannus Arnoldus Wion Asser Meneuensis Aymo Baronius Card. Beda Bernardus Bernardus Guido Breuiarium Cameracense Breuiarium Curiense Breuiarium Gandauense Breuiarium Moguntiuum Breuiarium Saltzburgense Breuiarium Sarum Breuiarium Sueticum Carolus Sigonius Chronicon Cameracense Chronicon Cluniacense Chronograph Britanniae Chronicon Hyberniae Concilium Tridentinum Continuator Bedae Cornelius Tacitus Egilwardus Monachus Extrauagans Xysti PP 4. Felix Crolandiensis Folcardus Doroborniensis Franciscus Cattanius Franciscus Belleforestius Franciscus Maurolycus Gaufredus Monumetensis Georgius Lilius Gerardus Liegh Gildas Sapiens Gotzelinus Morinensis Gregorius Magnus Gregorius Turonensis Gulielmus Eysengrenius Gulielmus MalmesburieÌ„sis Gulielmus Neubrigensis Gulielmus Tyrius Gulielmus Ramesius Hector Boetius Hector Deidonatus Helmodius Presbyter Hermannus Contractus Herebertus Rosweyde Hieronymus Platus Historia Quadripartita Historia antiqua Scotorum Hucbaldus Monachus Humfridus Lhuide Iacobus Meyrus Ioannes Capgrauius Ioannes Frosyard Ioannes de Kirkstat Ioannes Lesleius Ioannes Maior Ioannes Magnus Ioannes Molanus Ioannes Nauclerus Ioannes Tritemius Ioannes Rouse Lambertus de Loos Laurentius Dunelmensis Laurentius Surius Marcellinus Monachus Matthaeus Parisiensis Mathaeus Westmonaster Mombritius Mosander Nicolaus Harpesfield Nicolaus Sanderus Olaus Magnus Osbertus de Stokes Paulus Diaconus Paulus Morigia Petrus Blesensis Petrus Cratepolius Petrus Gaselinus Petrus de Natalibus Petrus Sutor Petrus de Viel Polidorus Virgilius Prosper Aquitanius Ranulphus Cestrensis Registrum Cantuariense Registrum de Hide Registrum Lichfeldiense Registrum Lincolniense RegistruÌ„ D. Pauli LondineÌ„s Registrum Petriburgense Renatus Benedictus Rhenanus Richardus Vitus Rodulphus Agricola Rodulphus Monachus Rogerus Houeden Romanum Martyrologium Robertus Buckland Robertus Caenalis Robertus Salopiensis Senatus Brauonius Siluester Giraldus Sigebertus Sophronius Speculum Fr. CarmelitaruÌ„ Stephanus Lusinganius Symon Dunelmensis Theodoretus Thomas Walsingam Turgotus Episcopus Vincentius Vsuardus Wernerus Rollewincke FINIS A CATALOGVE OF THOSE VVHO HAVE SVFFERED DEATH IN ENGLAND for defence of the Catholicke Cause synce the yeare of Christ 1535. and 27. of King HENRY the VIII his raigne vnto this yeare 1608. THE PREFACE IN the yeare of our Lord 1530. King Henry the viij after that he had raigned 22. yeares in great peace
King of Mercia and sister to the Saintes Milburge and Mildred Virgins who contemning all pleasures and delightes of this world became a Religious woman in a Monastery in Kent neere vnto Canterbury which holy King Ethelbert of blessed memory had foūded where in great sāctimony of life and pious conuersation she yielded her soule vp to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and sixteene She had also a brother called Meresine a man of great holynes of life liuing about the same tyme of whome there is made often mention in our ancient Historiographers of Britany and England D The eighteenth Day AT Sutrium in Tuscany the Deposition of S. Deicola Abbot and Confessor who borne in Scotland of a noble parentage and hearing of the vertues and sanctity of S. Columbane the Great then liuing in Italy went ouer vnto him became his disciple and was afterward made Abbot there of a new Monastery called S. Martins erected in a towne of Tuscany commonly named Sutrium where in great sanctity and holines of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred fourscore and eleuen THE same day in Suetia the Commemoration of S. Vlsride Bishop and Martyr who being an English man by byrth and of great learning knowledg in the scriptures went ouer into the low Countreyes first and thence into Suetia to preach the Christian faith which when he had done most feruently and with great fruite of his holy labours for some yeares he was there finally put to death by the enemyes of Christ and so obtayned a palme of martyrdome about the yeare of Christ one thousand thirty and foure E The ninteenth Day AT VVorcester the deposition of S. VVolstan Bishop and Confessour who being brought vp from his youth in the Abbey of Peterburrow and afterward made a monke in the Monastery of VVorcester was finally created Bishop of the same Citty in the tyme of K. Edward the Confessour but being after deposed through falfe slaunderous accusations by K. VVilliam the Conquerour and Bishop Lanfranke was by a miracle that himselfe wrought at S. Edwardes body in VVestminster in the presence of many people againe restored to his Bishopricke where in very great sanctity and holines of life he perseuered to the end of his venerable dayes which happened in the yeare of Christ one thousand nynty and fiue and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of VVorcester This day was afterward cōmāded to be kept holy in his memory throughout England THE same day in Suetia the passiō of S. Hēry Martyr Bishop of Opslo who going our of England to preach the faith of Christ in those partes was honourably intertayned of the King of Suetia by whose counsell direction he made war against the Finlanders subdued thē wherby the whole countrey of Finland was cōuerted to the Christiā faith he became their Apostle He was afterward slayne by the Pagā people of the same Countrey being stoned to death about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred fifty and one His body was afterward translated to Opslo and there kept in his Cathedrall Church vntil the dayes of Martyn Luther when as his sacred Reliques were prophaned beatē to dust cast into the ayre F The twentith Day AT Ramsey-Abbey in the I le of Ely the Cōmemoratiō of S. Elsled Virgin Abbesse who descēded of a noble family daughter to Ethelwold an Earle in the Prouince of the East-Angles after her Fathers death contēned all worldly transitory prefermēts became a Nunne in the Monastery of Ramsey which her said Father had lately founded vnder the Gouermēt of S. Merwyne then Abbesse therof after whose descease Elwyne that succeeded her she was chosen Gouernesse of that house confirmed in office by holy King Edgar of blessed memory wherin she so excelled in all kind of vertue workes of mercy Monasticall discipline that her name was famous throughout Englād both aliue dead It happened vpō a tyme before she was chosen Abbesse that being in the Church at Mattins before day with the rest of her sisters going into the middest according to the custome to read a lesson the candle wherwith she saw to read chāced to be put out therupon wanting light there came frō the fingers of her right hād such an exceding brightnesse vpō the suddaine that not only herselfe but all the rest of the Quire also might read by it Another time also it fell out her charity being so exceeding great bountifull towards the poore that through the large reliefe of the needy her coffers were greatly emptied in so much that the Procuratour of the house did checke her somwhat sharply for excessiue lauishnes She with many teares was silent made moane to her supreme Lord crauing his assistance herin And her prayers were not in vayne For the empty chestes were againe miraculously filled as before by Gods gracious recompence approbation of her charitable beneficence liberality She died in all sanctimony and holines of life about the yeare of Christ nyne-hundred fourscore and twelue was buryed in our B. Ladyes Church of the same Monastery which her Father had also built G The one and twentith Day AT Virdune in France the deposition of S. Malcalline Abbot and Confessour who being an Irishman by byrth and descended of a noble stocke went ouer into France in his youth and there entring into a Monastery became first a monke of the order of S. Benedict and afterward was made Abbot of Michells at Virdune where in very great sanctity of life and other vertues especially in the exercise of Monasticall discipline in a good old age he gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred threescore and eighteene His body was buried in the same Monastery where the same is yet preserued with great honour veneration of the inhabitants therabout A The two and twentith Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of S. Brituald Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who of a monke of the venerable order of S. Benedict was ordayned Bishop of VVinchester In which dignity after he had continued for many years full of singular vertue and holines of life he ended his venerable old dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand and fourty He liued in the beginning of King Edward the Confessors raigne of whome it is wrytten that he had a miraculous reuelation how that he saw the said King Edward being yet in his Mothers wombe elected King crowned and annoynted by S. Peter the Apostle and ordayned to raigne foure twenty yeares finally to dy without issue Moreouer in that vision he seeming to demaund of S. Peter who should raigne next after him it was answered him againe That the Kingdome of England was Gods Kingdome and he then would prouide a King for
the Commemoration of Blessed Inas King of the VVestsaxons and Confessour who leauing the care of his Kingdome to his kinsman Ethelhard went to Rome where he erected a Schole for the English nation as also a fayre Church therto belonging in honour of our blessed Lady neere to the hospitall of Sanctus Spiritus in the Burgo or suburbes of S. Peters both which were afterwards consumed by fire He was the first King of our nation that ordayned throughout his Dominions that euery family should once a yeare giue a penny to the Church of Rome in honour of S. Peter the Apostle which contribution continued euer synce euen vntill our dayes commonly called by the name of Peter-pence He founded the Abbey of VVells with the Cathedrall Church dedicating the same to God and S. Andrew the Apostle He new builded also the Abbey of Glastenbury which was the fourth building of that Monastery Besides the said Godly King did there in like manner erect a Chappell plated all ouer with siluer and guilt with ornaments also and vessels saith the Story of gould and siluer To the building of which Chappâ—â—â— ne gauâ— in weight two thousand six hundred forty pounds of siluer and to the aultar two hundred thrâ—escore and foure pounds of gold A Chalice with the patin ten pound of gold a Censar eight pound two candlestickeâ— twelue pound and a halfe of siluer a couer for the Missall or as then they vsed to call it the Ghospell-booke twenty pounds vessels for wyne and water to the aâ—tar thirty pounds of gold a holy water pot twenty pound of siluer Images of our Sauiour our Bl. Lady the twelue Apostles one hundred threescore and fifteene pound of siluer and twenty eight pound of gold A pall for the altar and ornaments for the Monks of gold and pretâ—ous 〈…〉 nes curiously wrought All which he gaue saith the Author to that Monastery but the same was afterward in this last age by commandement of K. Henry the eight defaced spoyled and robbed of all the forsaid and infinite other treasure And after all this the forsaid King Inas going in person to Rome and performing the things aboue mentioned tooke finally vpon him the habit of a Monke where in great sanctity and holines of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ 727. and was there buryed in the entrance of S. Peters Church as the ancient Tables Records therof do declare C The seauenth Day AT Luca in Italy the deposâ—tion of S. Richard King and Confâ—ssour sonne to Lotharius King oâ— Kent who sor the loue of Christ taking vpon him a long peregrination went to Rome for dâ—notion to that Sea and in his way homward died at Luca about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fifty where his body is kept vntill this day with great veneration in the Oratory or Chappell of S. Frigidian and aâ—orned with an Epitaph both in verse and prosâ— That in verse is this Hiâ— Rex Richardus requiescit Sceptriser almus Rex suit Anglorum regnum tenet ille Polâ—rum Regnum dimisit pro Christo cuncta reliquit Ergo Richardum nobis dedit Anglia Sanctum Hic genitor Sanctae Walburgis Virginis almae Et Willebaldi Sancti simul Winibaldi Suffragijs quorum det nobis regna Polorum The same day at â—ondó the deposition of S. Augulus Bishop Martyr who in the persecution of Dioclesian the Emperour for peaching the Christian faith in our Iland of Great Brytany was put to death by the enemyes of truth about the yeare of Christ three hundred fiue a little after the death of S. Alban IN like manner the same day at Rhemes in â—rance the Translation of S Helena Mother to Constantine the Great who borne in Colchester of Essex according to the ancient traditions of the Britans and daughter to Coclus Prince of Britany was famous for building of Churches in honour of Christ and his Saintes She died at Rome when she was fourscore yeares of age and was afterward on this day translated to Rhemes where her sacred reliques are kept wâ—th great veneration Her Memory hath byn very famous in tymes past in the Greeke Church whose celebrity is there kept vpon the 22. of May together with her Sonne Constamine D The eight Day AT Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of of S. Edelsled Virgin Abbesse daughter to Oswyn King of the same Prouince who by her Father being dedicated vnto God for a famous victory which he obtayned against the cruell Penda King of the Mercians was coÌ„mitted for her education to S. Hilda Abbesse of a Monastery amongst the Northumbers called Hartesey and when she came to riper yeares she founded for her selfe another Nunry in the same Kingdome called Strenshalt and was made Abbesse therof where in all kind of profound humility sanctity of life ioyned with other vertues she gaue vp her soule to her heaueÌ„ly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred and seauenty Her body was buryed in the same Monastery wherat for many ages following it pleased God to worke wonderous miracles E The ninth Day IN the territory of Liege in the lower Germany the passion of S. Menigold Martyr who borne in England and descended of a very noble parentage became first a Captaine in the French and German warres afterward an Eremite vnto whome Arnulph the Emperour gaue a little territory neere to the banke of the riuer of Mosa where he built himself a cottage or Oratory for his deuotion And as he was going one day to the Church was slaine in hatred of ChristiaÌ„ saith by certaine notorious malefactors enemyes therof about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred His body was afterward translated to Huis neere Cullâ—n vpon the fifteenth day of lune where togeather with the body of S. Domitian Bishop the same is kept with great veneration of the Inhabitants of that place F The tenth Day AT VVorcester the TranslatioÌ„ of S. VVilfrid the second of that name Confessour Bishop of Yorke whose great sanctity and holines of life it pleased God to manifest by the incorruption of hâ—s body which being reueyled to S. Oswald Bishop of VVorcester to remayne interred in the Monastery of Rippon in Yorkeshire then decayed destroyed by the Danes was by him sought for fouÌ„d whole incorrupt togeather with the venerable bodyes of siue ReuereÌ„d Abbots Tilbert Borwyn Albert Sygred and VValden all which S. Oswald traÌ„slated to his Cathedrall Church of VVorcester there with great veneration and honour interred them wherat it pleased God also in signe of their sanctity to worke miracles He died about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty This S. VVilfrid is different from the other of the same name whose festiuity is kept vpon the 12. of October G The eleuenth Day AT Tyre in Syria the Commemoration of Blessed VVilliam Bishop and Confessor who being
and descended there of a noble parentage became in that Kingdome first a monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and thence went ouer into France to S. Gallus Abbot that then was famous in those partes of whome being throughly instructed in all kind of Monasticall discipline was at last ordayned Bishop of Constance where after many yeares of most approued vertue and sanctity of life he happily reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and foure and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Constance B The seauen twentith Day AT Lichfield in Staffordshire the Commemoration of Blessed Sexulfe Bishop and Confessour who being the first Abbot of the Monastery of Medshamsted now called Peterburrow by whose persuasion VVulferus K. of Mercia had newly founded the same was ordayned Bishop of Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers and afterward translated to Lichfield in the place of VVinsrid that was deposed by S. Theodore of Canterbury In both which Seas he most worthily behaued himselfe in teaching and instructing his flocke for many yeares And at last full of venerable old age ioyned with sanctity of life he departed to our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred THE same day in the Prouince of the Eastangles in the Diocesse of Ely the CoÌ„memoration of S. Alnoth Martyr who being heardsman to S. VVereburge Abbesse of the Nunry of Ely became an Anchoret leading a most strict and seuere recluse life for the loue of God whome when he had so serued for some yeares he was slayne by certaine wicked theeues in hatred therof and so receyued his crowne of Martyrdome about the yeare of Christ 670. C The eight twentith Day AT Yorke the deposition of S. Oswald Bishop CoÌ„fessour nephew to S. Odo Archbishop of Canterbury who being first made Chanon of VVinchester then Bishop of VVorcester was lastly promoted to the Archbishopricke of Yorke whose godly vertues and innocency of life was afterward declared by the manifold miracles wrought at his body Amongst other works of Charity he was wont euery day to giue dinner to twelue poore men or pilgrims seruing them at table with his owne hands wash their feet giue them money in almes and alwayes at Easter to giue them new apparrell He died on this day in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and twelue and was afterward translated to VVorcester vpon the fifteenth of October on which day his principall festiuity is celebrated in our Catholicke Church of England of whome also in that place we haue made a large Relation THE MONETH OF MARCH D The first Day AT Meneuia in Penbrookshire the deposition of S. Dauid Bishop and Confessour sonne to Xantus Prince of VVales and Vncle to the valiant King Arthur who was so famous for working of miracles in his life tyme that he became a great pillar and vphoulder of the British Primitiue Church especially in extinguishing the Reliques of the Pelagian heresy He translated his Bishopricke which was at Carleon vpon V. ske vnto Meneuia now called in the British tongue of his name Twy Dewy in English S. Dauids where finally after he had built twelue Monasteryes and replenished the same with monkes being of the age of an hundred fourty six yeares he ended his blessed dayes was buryed in his owne Church about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred fourscore twelue It is recorded by the British antiquityes that by his prayers he obtayned the heate and vertue that the waters of Bath in Somersetshire haue in curing and asswaging many deseases though others do assigne it to haue byn found out long before He was afterward canonized for a Saint by Pope Ca 〈…〉 us the second THE same day at VVerdt in Cleeu-land the deposition of S. Suitbert Confessour and first Bishop of that Sea Sonne to Sigebert Earle of Nottingham who going ouer into the lower Germany and thence into Saxony Frizland with S. VVillebrord and his company to preach the Christian faith was there elected Bishop of VVerdt and sent backe into England to be consecrated and then returning to his Sea after much fruite wrought in that haruest in great sanctity and holines of life he reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ seauen huÌ„dred seauenteene His body is kept at VVerdt where he died with great veneration of the inhabitants He was canonized by Pope Leo the third E The second Day AT Lichfield in Staffordshire the deposition of S. Chad Confenour and Bishop of that Sea whose most exemplar life togeather with working of manifold miracles is yet famous throughout England The Cathedrall Church or Minster of that Citty is dedicated to our Blessed Lady and S. Chad. There is also a VVell neere to the same Church commonly called S. Chads VVell In the bottome whereof lieth vntill this day a cleere great marble stone wheron S. Chad was wont to kneele and pray in his Oratory the water of which Well is very wholsome soueraigne for many diseases He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and foure and lieth burved in his owne Cathedrall Church of Lichfield THE same day at VVerdt in Cleeu-land the deposition of S. Willeicke Abbot and Confessour who going out of England with S Switbert and his company to preach the Christian faith to the Pagans of the lower Germany and Saxony was constituted Abbot of a monastery at VVerdt which S. Switbert had newly founded where after the reaping of a fertile haruest in the conuersion of infinite soules to God full of sanctity miracles reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ 727. F The third Day AT Tauracum in little Britany the deposition oâ— S. VVenlocke Abbot and Confessour who descended of the royall bloud of oâ— Great Britany and nephew to Francanus Viceroy of that Kingdome went ouer into litle Britany and was ordayned Abbot there of an ancient Monastery called Tauracum whose liâ—e replenished with sanctity and miracles was famous aswell in our Kingdome as in France and Flanders about the yeare of Christ foure hundred and fourscore about which tyme also he reposed in our Lord. His body was afterward translated to Gaunt in Flanders in the NormaÌ„ persecution and there is kept vntill this day with great veneration of the Inhabitants for the ofteÌ„ miracles that haue byn wrought therat G The fourth Day AT Perone in Picardy the deposition of S. Eurseuâ— Abbot and Confessour sonne to Philtan King of Ireland who coÌ„ming into England to Sigebert King of the Eastangles built there a goodly Monastery and filled the same with monkes wherof himselfe was ordayned Abbot And then after a while leauing the care therof to his brother Foillan he went ouer into France and built another Monastery at Perone where in most godly and saintly exercise of life he died on this day about the yeare of Christ six hundred thirty and six
His body is preserued yet in the same Monastery with great veneration for the frequent miracles that haue byn wrought therat A The fifth Day IN Northumberland the Commemoration of S. VVilgise Confessour a noble man of that Prouince and Father to the famous S. VVillebrord who casting from him the cares of this world became an Eremite leading a solitary seuere life in the Kingdome of Northumberland where he built him a little Cottage or Oratory in honour of S. Andrew the Apostle in which when he had lâ—ued many yeares in continuall fasting watching and prayer full of sanctity of life and venerable old age he finally went vnto our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and six S. Alcuine Maister to Charles the Great wrote his life in Elegiacall verse as himselâ—e witnesseth in the liâ—e of S. Willebrord where also in the end therof he recounteth a miracle wrought by S. VVilgise about the muâ—tiplication of wyne B The sixt Day AT Secking on the Rhene in the lower Germany the deposition of S. Frodoline otherwise called Winsred Abbotand Confessour sonne to Conranus King of Scotland who going ouer into Flaunders and Germany for the conuersion of those people to Christ was ordayned Abbot of a Monastery called Secking situated vpon the riuer-banke of Rhene where after he had conuerted many thousands to the faith of Christ in all kind of vertue and sanctity of life he ended his venerable aged dayes about the yeare of our Lord fiue hundred threescore and foure THE same day at Dormundcaster two miles from Peterburrow in Northamptonshirâ— the deposition of the Saints Kinisdred and Kiniswide Virgins and sisters daughters to Penda K. of Mercia who being dedicated to God euen from their infancy despised all worldly preferments and entring into a Nunry at the forsaid towne of Dormundcaster there only studied how to serue their Lord in all kind of vertuous conuersation and Sanctimony of life vntyll their dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred thirty and foure Their bodyes were afterward translated to Peterburrow where S. Ethelwold Bishop of of VVinchester built a goodly Monastery in their honour about the yeare of our Redemption nyne hundred and fourscore C The seauenth Day IN North-wales the CoÌ„memoratioÌ„ of S. Deifer Confessour who borne of a noble British stocke contemned the vanityes of this world and became an Eremite leading for many yeares a solitary and seuere kind of life in all vertue and humility in the North of Wales where among other miracles which he wrought one is recorded that by his prayers he raised out of the ground a fountayne of cleere water very soueraigne for many diseases He died in great sanctity and holines about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and foure about which tyme also S. Wenefride was famous in those partes for the miracles wrought at her body and with whome this holy man Deifer had byn very conuersant whilst she liued D The eight Day AT Dunwich in Suffolke the deposition of S. Felix bishop Confessor who comming out of Burgundy where he was borne was by S. Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury sent to preach the Christian faith to the Eastangles where he coÌ„uerted the whole Prouince togeather with their King Sigebert so became their Apostle and last of all was ordayned Bishop of an old Citty called Dunmocke otherwise Dunwich which at this day is more then halfe consumed by the sea This holy man founded in that Prouince Monasteryes Schooles and Churches And after a most Saintly life full of miracles he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fifty was buried in the Abbey of Soam in Cambridgshire foure miles from Ely from whence in the Danish persecution he was translated to the Monastery of Ramsey E The ninth Day AT Yorke the Commemoration of S. Bosa Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who being a monke of the Monastery of Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers was at the instance of Egfride King of that Prouince ordayned Bishop of Yorke and placed in that Sea in the roome of S. Wilsride who then liued in exile in the I le of Wight being expulsed the Dominions of Northumberland by the forsaid King which when he had gouerned most worthily for nyne yeares in all kind of good learning and vertue and S. Wilsride restored againe he willingly returned to his Monastery there in great sanctity of life and heauenly conteÌ„plation he spent the rest of his dayes and finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred F The tenth Day AT Vissenaken in the lower Germany the deposition of S. Himeline Confessour who borne in Ireland and there descended of a noble bloud and allied to the famous Bishop S. Romwald of that Nation despising this transitory world went ouer into the lower Germany and there led an Eremiticall life in the Montaynes neere vnto Thene in the Duchy of Brabant where he was very famous for sanctity of life and other vertues the same being manifested afterward by the manifold signes and miracles at his death which fell out about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and threscore His memory is vntill this day very famous in the forsaid towne of Vissenaken where his body remayneth and is greatly honoured by the frequent concourse of such as dayly come to visit the same G The eleuenth Day AT Tyn-mouth in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Translation of the venerable body of S. Osuyne Martyr and King of the Deires in the same Prouince who being impiously slayne in hatred of Christian faith by Osway King of the BerniciaÌ„s it pleased God to manifest his innocency by the wonderfull miracles wrought afterward at his body which being on this day found out was taken vp and with great solemnity and veneration translated to a Church of our Blessed Lady in an old towne of the same Kingdome now called Tyn-mouth where afterward was a godly Monastery erected in his honour and where his principall festiuity was wont in Catholicke time to be celebrated on the tweÌ„tith of August on which day he was Martyred in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and one A The tweluth Day AT Rome the deposition of S. Gregory Pope and Doctor who for his admirable workes and labours in Gods Church was surnamed the Great He sent S. Augustine with other Monkes into England for our CoÌ„uersion who landing in the I le of Thanet and intertayned by King Ethelbert of Kent of blessed memory within a while conuerted that Prouince to the saith of Christ togeather with the said King Ethelbert and by little and little the whole Realme of England The memory of which our Apostle S. Gregory hath byn very famous in former tymes in our Countrey whose feast was wont to be kept holyday in diuers partes of the Land where also are many goodly Churches and
afterward was ordayned Bishop of Lindisserne which Bishopricke after he had gouerned some two yeares he resigned and became an Eremite leading a most strict and seuere kind of life in the Iland of Farne and so continued vntill his dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and eight He was very famous for sanctity and working of miracles both aliue and dead THE same day and same place the deposition of Blessed Herebert Priest and CoÌ„fessour a man of great holinesse of life who often repayring to S. Cuthbert aforsaid alwayes vsed his counsell and direction for the affayres both of his body and soule And one day S. Cuthbert telling him that himselfe was shortly to leaue this world passe to the other Herebert fell downe at his feet and importunely besought him that he might also passe to the next life with him that had so long inioyed his company heere on earth At whose earnest intercessioÌ„ S. Cuthbert falling to his prayers finally obtayned the same And so with in a while after they both falling sicke went both to our Lord vpon the one and selfe same day and houre in the yeare of Christ 688. and were both buryed at Lindisserne C The one and twentith Day AT VVerdt in Cleeu-land the Commemoation of S. Isenger Bishop and Martyr who descended o 〈…〉 a noble Scottish family contemned the vanityes of the world and became first a monke in that Kingdome of the venerable Order of S. Benedict and afterward Abbot there of the Monastery called Amarbaricke which wheÌ„ he had gouerned for diuers yeares mooued with zeale of conuerting his neighbour-Countreyes went ouer into Flanders and Germany and being there ordayned Bishop o 〈…〉 VVerdt was a little after slayne in defence of the ChristiaÌ„ faith by the infidels of that Countrey about the yeare of Christ eight hundred twenty and foure His body being brought to VVerdt there interred in his owne Cathedrall Church was kept for a long tyme with great honour veneratioÌ„ of the InhabitaÌ„tes D The two and twentith Day AT Sherborne in Dorcetâ—hire the Commemoration of S. Hamund Bishop of that Sea and Martyr who in the Danish persecution vnder the Captaynes Hingar Hubba was for the Confession of Christ most barbarously slayne at Merdune by those Tyrannicall Pagans who in the vastation of England spared neyther Ecclesiasticall nor Religious person whatsoeuer His Martyrdome happened about the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and eleuen and in the raigne of Alfred King of the VVest saxons E The three and twentith Day AT Lindisserne the Commemoration of Blessed Fgbert King of the Northumbers and Confessour who after he had gouerned that Prouince most laudably for twenty yeares conteÌ„ned his Crowne dignity of a King leauing the same to his soÌ„ne Oswulph entring into the Abbey of Lindissern aforsaid became there a monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict where in very great sanctity of life humility obseruance of Monasticall discipline and other vertues he finally ended his peaceable dayes in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threescore and eight He endowed the Archbishopricke â—f Yorke whilst he was King with gr 〈…〉 〈…〉 newes where also he founded a worthy Library and furnished the same with all good Authors that could then be gotten F The foure twentith Day AT Canterbury the depositioÌ„ of S. LanfraÌ„ke Confessour and Archbishop of that Sea who borne at Pauia in Lombardy became first a monke of the Abbey of Becke then Abbot of Cane in Normandy and afterward ordayned Archbishop of Canterbury at the request of King VVilliam the Conquerour whose most pious life good learning ioyned with extraordinary charitie to the poore and assistance of the Church of England is yet memorable throughout the Christian world Of this man there is a story recorded how that in his yoÌ„ger dayes he trauayling by the way chaÌ„cing to be robbed by theeues tooke the same so impatiently that by no means he could be pacified for a tyme but at leÌ„gth coÌ„ming to himself againe he brake forth into these words VVhat haue I so much learning knowledge both in Philosophy Diuinity and Scriptures and yet haue not learned to be patient in aduersity Surely 〈…〉 uall not cease vntill I fynd out that learning And vpon this he presently went into France and thence into Normandy where comming to the Abbey of Becke he lay secretly for many yeares in that Monastery being reputed for an Idiot and simple man vntill at length his learning and wisdome being discouered he was made Prior of Becke and presently afterward Abbot of S. Stephens in Cane aforsaid and finally Archbishop of Canterbury He died in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and nyne and was buryed in his owne Church at Canterbury G The fiue twentith Day AT Norwich in the County of Norsolke the passion of S. VVilliam Mareyr who being a boy of the same Citty of some ten yeares old was by his Father set an apprentice to a glouer of the same towne whome the Iewes of Norwich secretly stealing away crucified on a Crosse in despite of Christ his blessed Mother vpoÌ„ the feast of her AnnuÌ„ciation His body they cast into a wood or thicket neere to the said Citty which being fouÌ„d brought vnto the towne with a sollemne procession of the Clergy was placed in the great Church or Minster of that Sea and there was wont to be kept with great veneration His Martyrdome happened in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred forty and six in the eleuenth yeare of the raigne of K. Stephen A The six and twentith Day AT Bardney in Lincolnshire the Commemoration of Many holy Monkes Martyrs who in the first Danish persecution in our Iland were slayne by those Pagan people in their owne Monasteryes in hatred of Christian Religion At what tyme also the said Danes ranging abroad the Countreyes slew saith the Story the Abbot the Monkes of the Monastery of Croyland and fiered their Church and houses belonging thervnto At Peterburrow also they made the like slaughter of Religious persons and comming to the Nunry of Ely they put the Religious Virgins all to the sword without compassion and so receyuing theyr Crownes of Martyrdome they went vnto our Lord. All which happened in our Countrey about the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and ten B The seauen twentith Day IN ScotlaÌ„d the depositioÌ„ of S. Archibald Abbot Confessour descended of a very noble parentage in that Kingdome whose rare 〈…〉 e conuersation togeather with the singular gifts of clemency towards the poore and orphanes hath in former tymes byn famous both in England and Scotland His feast is recounted to haue byn celebrated on this day by the ancient Records of Scotland and Ireland among both which Nations many altars and some Churches also haue heertofore byn dedicated in his
the forsaid I le of Crowland In which kind of life he continued in so great austerity of fasting praying pennace that he deserued twice a day for fifteene yeares togeather to enioy the glorious sight of his good Angell working wonderfull miracles both aliue and dead He departed this world in a venerable old age about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fourteene and was buryed in Cro 〈…〉 and Abbey D The tweluth Day AT Roane in France the Commemoration of Blessed Hugh Co 〈…〉 ssour Bishop of that Sea who being an Englishmā by birth Abbot of Reading in Barkshire was thence in the time of K. Henry the 〈◊〉 promoted to the Bishopricke of Roane in which dignity he so worthily behaued himselfe for 〈…〉 x and thirty yeares togeather that his name was famous in those dayes throughout all France He died in great sanctity of life and miracles about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred threescore and six This man is different from the other S. Hugh Bishop of the same place whose fes 〈…〉 all day is celebrated vpon the nynth of this moneth THE same day at Alaxion also in France the Commemoration of S. Mechtild Virgin who descended of the bloud Ro all of Scotlād fled thēce secretly with her yōgest brother Alexander in base attire into France where placing him as a Brother in the Monastery of Cistercian Mōkes at Fone she wēt herself to a village nyne myles of called Alaxion there made her a little Cottage of stickes and rushes liuing in great seuerity and pennance manteyning herself with the labour of her owne hands till her dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ one thousand and two hundred The townesmen of Alaxion buryed her body with great solemnity and veneration God glorifying the same by many Miracles E The thirteenth Day AT Glastenbury in Somersetshire the Commemoration of S. Elsled Virgin and Neece to King Ethelstane of England whose wonderfull vertues and holines of life togeather with working of miracles haue in tymes past byn famous in our Iland She built herselfe a little Oratory by the counsell of S. Dunstan neere to the Church of our Blessed Lady at Glastenbury in which she liued in continuall prayer watching and fasting vntill her dying day And when vpon a tyme her vncle K. Ethelstane that was there on hunting came to visit her with a great company stayed and dined with her she hauing but one little vessell of drinke called meath set the same before him and his trayne of which when euery one had dronke his fill the said vessell was notwithstanding as full as before She ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred thirty and six and was buryed at Glastenbury F The fourteenth Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of Blessed Ethelnulph King of the VVestsaxons and Confessour whose godly acts in propagating and increasing the Christian faith in our Iland is not only famous to all posterity but may be an example also and myrrour to all other Christian Princes of Europe He made the tenth part of his Kingdome free from all tributes and and exactions and gaue it to the Church in honour of our Blessed Lady and other Saints of God as also he sent euery yeare three hundred Markes to Rome one hundred to S. Peters Church another hundred to S. Paules and the third to be bestowed in almes at the Popes discretion And at last went thither himselfe in pilgrimage togeather with his yongest sonne Alfred whome he cōmitted to Pope Leo for his education And there among other deeds of Charity he reedified the English-schoole that had byn a little before consumed by fire And soone after his returne backe into England in most godly wise he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred fifty and seauen Matthew Paris a monke of S. Albans and a very graue Author numbreth him among the canonized Saints of our Nation His body was with all solemnity veneration honourably reconded in the Cathedrall Church of VVinchester where it yet remayneth among the Monuments of our Saxon and English Kings G The fifteenth Day AT Yorke the Eleuation of the glorious venerable body of S. Oswald Bishop of that Sea and Confessour who trauayling in his yonger dayes into France became there first a monke in the Monastery of Floriacke returning into England was afterwards ordayned Bishop of VVorcester and lastly at the intercession of K. Edgar preferred to Yorke where in great sanctity of life and miracles he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and twelue His body in the yeare 1002. was on this day with all solemnity and reuerence taken vp by Aldulph his successour in that Sea and set in a more eminent place of the Cathedrall Church of Yorke but afterward translated to VVorcester He built the famous Abbey of Ramsey in the I le of Ely as also a goodly Church at VVorcester which he dedicated to our blessed Lady A The sixteenth Day AT Cullen in the higher Germany the Translation of part of the venerable body of S. Alban Protomartyr of Great-Britany which togeather with other Reliques being first carried thence to Rome by S. Germā Bishop of Auxier in France when with S. Lupus he came into Britany to expell the Pelagiā heresy was afterwards brought backe to Cullen by Thcophania wife to the Emperour Otho the second and there very honourably placed in the Monastery of S. Pantaleon where the same is yet kept with great veneration of the whole Citty This S. Alban in his youth before his conuersion to Christian faith being Lord of Verolame now called S. Albans went to Rome and there made a Royall Chalēge of Iustes for the honour of his Realme where before all others he had the price and thereupon was made knight of the Bath by the Emperour Dioclesian and high Steward of the Britans who were then vnder the subiection of the Romans And after his returne home being made a Christian by S. Amphibale Priest was for that cause shortly after apprehended and put to death at the forsaid towne of S. Albans in Hartfordshire about the yeare of Christ three hundred and three Fortunatus in his excellent Booke of Virginity speaking of Martyrs among others commendeth S. Alban thus Albanum egregium foecunda Britannia profert There was a goodly Church and Monastery afterwards erected at S. Albans in his honour by Ossa K. of the Merciās wherin the said body of S. Alban was placed the which was in our last age destroyed by K. Henry the 8. his commandement with hundreds more in our Iland B The seauenteenth Day AT Fulda in the Diocesse of Mentz in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Marianus Cōfessour who borne in Scotland descended of a good parentage in that Kingdome went ouer into Germany and tooke first the habit of a Monke
of the Britans resigned the said Sea to S. Dauid became an Eremite leading a very strict seuere kind of life in the mouÌ„taynes of VVales vntill his dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and twenty His body was first buryed in the Iland of Bardsey afterward on this day translated to Landaâ—â—a about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and twenty A The seauenth Day AT Beuerlâ—â— in Yorkeshire the festiuity of S. â—ohâ— Bishop and Confessour commonly called 〈…〉 Iohn of Beuerley who after he had gouerned the Sea of Yorke in great sanctity and holines of life for the space of three and thirty yeares famous for miracles he ended his venerable old dayes in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred twenty and one His body was first buryed at Yorke but afterward with great honour and solemnity translated to Beuerlâ—y by Bishop Alred his successour and there interred in the Monastery which himselfe had built where with great veneration the same was preserued euen vntill our dayes and visited of many especially for the great miracles that it hath pleased God to worke therat by his merits The forsaid Monastery of Beuerley was afterward by licence of the Pope made a Sanctuary in the raigne of King Ethelstane who placed a certaine Chayre of stone in the Church neere vnto S. Io 〈…〉 s body vpon which this insâ—ription was engrauen Haeâ— sedes lapidea di 〈…〉 ur Freed-stoole id est Pacis Cathedra ad quam reus sugiendo perueâ—iens o 〈…〉 odam â—â—beâ— securitate This festiuall day of his was afterward in a Councell of Bishops held at London in the yeare 1416. appointed to be kept holy-day in his memory throughout England B The eight Day AT Musâ—â—iâ—ht in the Territory of Liege the â—â—â—tiuâ—ty of S. Wyre CoÌ„fessour dâ—scâ—ded of a noble bloud in Scotland who being ordayned Bishop of the Deiri in the Kingdome of the Northumbers went ouer into the lower Germany where he became CoÌ„fessor to Duke Pepin of Brabant labouring incessantly in teaching and preaching the Christian faith And finally in great sanctity and venerable old yeares he departed this life at the Monastery of S. Odilia neere Ruremond vpon the Riuer of Mosa about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and one His body was translated afterward to Maestricht and there with great veneration of the Inhabitants is kept in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty C The ninth Day AT Vindecine among the Zwitzers in the higher Germany the deposition of S. Beatus Confessour and Apostle of Zuizerland who being sonne to a nobleman of Britany weÌ„t to Rome in the primitiue Church partly on pilgrimage partly to be better instructed in the Christian faith And as he returned backe he began to preach to the Zwitzzers in Heluetia and conuerted many of them to the saith of Christ wherby he became their first Apostle He died there in an Oratory which himselfe had built where also his body was buryed and many miracles wrought therat about the yeare of Christ one hundred and eleuen and was the first Saint of our Nation we read of that died out of Britany D The tenth Day AT Durham in the Bishopricke the Translation of the venerable Body of S. Bede â—riâ— and Confessour by whose wrytings the Christian world hath byn much illustrated When he was but seauen yeares old he was committed for his education to S. Benedict Abbot of the Monastery of VVyremund and afterward became a moÌ„ke in the same place seruing God therin all the dayes of his life as himselfe testifieth in the end of his fifth booke of the history of England And being at last admonished of his death by an Angell when the tyme drew neere which was on the feast of our Sauiours Ascension kneeling downe vpon the pauement of his Cell and singing Gloria patri silio spiritui sancto c. haue vp the ghost about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threscore and six His body was afterward on this day translated to Durham and there with great veneration placed in the Tombe togeather with S. Cuthbert with this old inscription or Epitaph Beda Dei famulus Monachorum nobile sydus Finibus è terrae profuit Ecclesiae Soles iste Patrum scrutando per omnia sensum Eloquio viguit plurima composuit Annos in hac vita ter duxit vitae triginta Presbyter officio vtilis ingenio Iunij septenis viduatus carne Kalendis Angligena Angelicam commeruit patriam His principall festiuity is kept in our English Catholicke Church vpon the 27. of this moneth according to the vse of Sarum on which day he died E The eleuenth Day IN the Marches of VVales the passion of S. Fremund King and Martyr sonne to Ossa King oâ— the Mercians of Middle 〈…〉 glishmen who after a yâ—are and a halfe that he had ruled his Kingdome left the same and for the loue of Christ became an I remite in the Marches of VVales in a lâ—ttle Iland there called in the Britâ—sh tongue 〈◊〉 sage where togeather with two vertuous priests he liued a very holy and exemplar kind of life vntill King Osâ—â—ay that was fallen from the Christian saith in hatred therof secretly killed him in the yeare of Christ seauen huÌ„dred threescore nyne He was afterward canonized for a Saint in the yeare one thousand two hundred fifty and seauen and raigne of King Henry the third of England whose memory in Catholicke tymes hath byn very famous in our Iland especially among the ancient Britans of North-VVales F The tweluth Day AT Lincolne the deposition of S. Remigius Confessour and Bishop of that Sea faâ—ouâ— for sanctity of life and learning He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 world in the yeare of Christ 〈◊〉 thousand fourscore and eleuen whose 〈◊〉 being on this day interred with great 〈◊〉 and veneration in his Cathe 〈…〉 Church of Lincoine it pleased God in 〈…〉 ony of his holynes to worke wonderous signes â—nerat especially in the raigne of King Henry the third when as all England went on pilgrimage thither for the great miracles that were theÌ„ dayly wrought He built two famous Monasteryes by the help of King VVilliam the CoÌ„querour the one at Battaile in Sussex the other at Cane in Normandy which later he consecrated to S. Stephen the Protomartyr And was the first that traÌ„slated the Bishopricke of Dorchester to Lincolne where he built a goodly Cathedrall Church and adorned the same saith Stow with Clarkes that were approued both in learning and manners G The thirteenth Day AT the Monastery of Ramsey in the I le of Ely in the Prouince of the Eastangies the Commemoration of S. Merwyne Virgin who being a womaÌ„ of great sanctimony holinesse of life was by King Edgar of blessed memory constituted Abbesse of a new Monastery which by the help of Alwyn Earle of the Eastangles S. Oswald Bishop of Yorke had newly â—ounded at Ramsey where in all vertuous
conuersation and exemplar good liâ—e especially in the obseruation of Monasticall discipline full of miracles she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and fourscore where her body was also interred and kept for a long tyme with great veneration This forsaid Abbey of Ramsey is different from another of the same name which in tymes past hath byn also very famous in our Iland being situated in Wiltshire where vntill this day the ruines therof are remayning to be seene A The fourteenth Day AT Pollesworth in VVarwickshire the Commemoration of S. Edith Virgin and sister to holy King Edgar of blessed memory who being a woman of rare vertue was ordayned Abbesse of a Monastery at the forsaid place of Pollesworth which S. Modwene of Ireland had built with the goods of her owne inheritance where in all kind of sanctimony of life and godly conuersation full of miracles she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore This woman is different from another S. Edith of the same name whose festiuall dayes are celebrated vpon the sixteenth of September and third of Nouember and was daughter to the forsaid Edgar and Abbesse of VVilton commonly called by the name of Edith the yonger and Neece to this of whome here we haue made mention B The fifteenth Day AT Ghele in Brabant the festiuity of S. Dympna Virgin and Martyr daughter to a pagan King of Ireland who being secretly instructed in the Christian faith by S. Gereberne a Priest of her owne Nation after the death of her mother the Queene her Father would haue married her and made her his wife which thing the holy Virgin abhorring stole priuily away into the lower Germany whither her Father following her and finding her out cut of her head with his owne hands togeather with the head of S. Gereberne in hatred of Christian Religion about the yeare of Christ 600. Her body is honourably reconded at Ghele and there is kept with great veneration wherat it hath pleased God to shew infinite miracles in signe of her innocency especially in casting out Diuells as well to his owne glory as increase of deuotion in the Christian world especially in the low Countreys S. Gereberns body was interred at the towne of Santen vpon the riuer of Rhene and there has Reliques were kept whiles that place was Catholicke with great veneration of the dwellers therabout C The sixteenth Day AT Burdeaux in Gascoyne of France the deposition of S. Symon Confessour an Englishman by birth and Generall of the Religious men called Carmelites who as he prayed to the blessed Virgin she appeared with a troupe of Angells holding vp the Scapulare or Coole of his Order in her haÌ„ds and said That whosoeuer died in that habit should be saued He desceased at Burdeaux in the visitation of his Generallship about the yeare of Christ one thousand fifty and two where his body is yet kept with great veneration God hauing through his merits adorned the same with many miracles THE same day at the towne of S. Albans in Hartsordshire the Translation of S. Alban Lord of Vâ—râ—lâ—me knight of the Bath high Steward of the Britans and the first Martyr that suffered for Christ in our Hand Whose body was on this day by Offa King of the Mercians in the yeare of Christ 794. taken vp and translated to a Church that he had newly built in his honour without the towne of S. Albans In which place also he founded a goodly Monastery endowed it with great lands and possessions This King Offa went after in person to Rome and procured S. Albans Canonization and priuiledges for the said Monastery of Pope Adrian the first As also gaue to the Sea of Rome a certaine tribute of his Kingdome gathering yearly of euery family of his dominions certayne money for the same commonly called Peter-pence which tribute continued in our Iland vntill King Henry the 8. when first the breach began with the sea Apostolicke THE same day in like manner in Scotland the deposition of S. Brandan Abbot and Confessour whose life and miracles haue byn famous in tymes past in our Iland of Great-Britany He flourished in the yeare of Christ 570. about which tyme also he died D The seauenteenth Day AT Elnona in the higher Germany the Translation of the venerable bodyes of Three of tâ—e eleuen thousand Virgins martyred with S. Vrsula who be 〈…〉 g of the British Nation suffered death for defence of their v 〈…〉 ginity and Christian Religion at Cullen in Germany with the forsaid S. Vâ—sula and her companions about the yeare of Christ three hundred fourscore and three From whence on this day three of their said glorious bodies were translated to Elnona and there very honourably and with great veneration reconded wherat it hath pleased God to worke miracles as well for the increase of deuotion in the people as also for confirmation of Catholicke Religion in those partes E The eighteenth Day AT Yorke the deposition of S. Sewall Confessour and Archbishop of the same Sea sometyme scholler in Oxford to S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury whose integrity and innocâ—cy of life togeather with his admirable patience in aduersity was so acceptable to God that it pleased his diuine Maiesty in signe therof to worke miracles by him both aliue and dead and among other it is recorded that lying on his death-bed he turned water into wyne by only blessing it He ended his venerable old dayes after much sorrow and tribulation in great sanctity and holinesse of life in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and eight vpon the day of our Blessed Sauiours Ascension deseruing to receyue the Crowne of his labours on the same day that Christ our Sauiour after his bitter passion heere on earth for the Redemption of mankind entred into the glory of his eternall Father His body was buryed in hisowne Cathedrall Church of Yorke and there kept and visited with great veneration of the Northerne people euen vntill the tyme of King Henry the 8. for the Miracles that had byn wrought therat F The ninteenth Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Dunstan Bishop and Confessour who being first Abbot of the ancient and goodly Monastery of Glastenbury in Somersetshire was thence promoted to the Bishopricke of VVorcester and after to London and â—ast of all to Canterbury whose godly workes of piety togeather with the multitude of his miracles are manifest to the ChristiaÌ„ world He dâ—ed in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and eight and was buried at Canterbury where his body was wont in Catholicke tymes to be kept with great veneration of all England vntill these later dayes of schismes and heresyes in our Kingdome THE same day at Towers in France the deposition of S. Alâ—uine Abbot and Confessour who borne in Yorkeshire and somtyme School-maister of Yorke went ouer into
and was buryed in the same place C The thirteenth Day IN North VVales the Commemoration of S. Elerius Abbot and Confessour who borne of a noble British parentage and setting aside the vayne pleasures of the world built with the goods of his owne inheritance a Monastery in the North-west part of our Iland now called North-wales where he gathering togeather many deuout persons lead a Monasticall life directing them in all kind of vertue and discipline vntill his dying day He liued in the tyme of S. VVenefrid about the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and foure of whome she receyued the holy veyle of Chastity and was ordayned Abbesse of a Monastery which S. Beno her maister and tutour had erected in her Fathers territory as also wrote the whole story of her life which is yet extant in wrytteÌ„-hand to be read in diuers libraryes of England The bone of one of his armes is yet in the custody of a Catholicke Gentleman of our Countrey who preserueth the same with great deuotion and veneration as beseemeth so pretious a Relique D The fourteenth Day IN Scotland the Translation of S. Brandan Abbot Confessour borne in the same Kingdome whose godly life and doctrine togeather with his manifold miracles are yet famous throughout the ChristiaÌ„ world especially in our Iland of Great-Britany His principall festiuity in our Catholicke Church of England is celebrated vpon the sixteenth day of May where also we haue made mention of him There was a goodly Church as also a towne builded in his honour in one of the Ilands of Orcades which vntill this day is commonly called by the name of S. Brandans He died about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and seauenty E The fifteenth Day AT VVilton in VViltshire the deposition of S. Eadburge Virgin daughter to King Edward the elder who refusing all worldly honours and preferments tooke a Religious habit in the Monastery of VVilton and became a mirrour and rare example to the Nobility of England where she so excelled in all manner of vertue but especially humility that she euer thought herselfe the most contemptiblest of all the Monastery Which thing how acceptable it was to God it pleased him to manifest to the world by the manifold miracles he wrought by her both aliue dead She desceased about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and fourteene and was buryed at Wilton THE same day at Huis in the Diocesse of L 〈…〉 ge the Translation of S. Menigold Martyr who borne in England of a great parentage became first a Captaine in the French and German warres and after an Eremâ—te vnto whome 〈◊〉 the Emperour gaue a â—â—ttle Territory 〈◊〉 to the riuer 〈…〉 oâ— Mosa where â—e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Oratory for â—â—s priuate deuotio 〈…〉 as he was one day going to Church was â—â—aâ—â—e by ceâ—tain◠〈◊〉 〈…〉 diers in hatred of his sancâ—â—ty about 〈◊〉 eare of Christ â—â—ne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 body was afterward on this day with great solemnity tranâ—â—ated to Huis where the same is yet kept with due honour veneration oâ— the Inhabitants THE same day also in little Britany the deposition of S. Maine Abbot and Confeuour who borne in our Iland of Great Britany and kinsma to S. Sampâ—on went ouer with him into little Britany to preach the Christian saith where he fist lead a Monasticall life at Dole vnder the forsaid S. SaÌ„pson and afterward being made Abbot of a Monastery dedicated to S. Iohn Baptist in the same Countrey after many yeare of labour and toyle taken in the seruice of Christ and conuersion of many soules to him famous for miracles he finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and nynty His body was buryed in the same Monastery which at this day of his name is commonly called S. Maines and there is kept with great honour and veneration F The sixteenth Day AT Chichester in Sussex the Translation of S. Richard Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who hauing studied seaue yeares in the Vniuersity of Bologna in Italy and returning home was first made Chancelour of Oxford and theÌ„ Bishop of Chichester which Sea when he had gouerned for nyne yeares in great sanctity holinesse of life he died at Douer in Kent in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and three His body being brought to Chichester was afterward on this day taken vp and put into a goodly siluer shrine and translated to a more eminent place of that Cathedrall Church wherat so many miracles were dayly wrought that infinite people made concourse thither from all partes of EnglaÌ„d This Translation was made in the yeare one thousand two hundred threescore and sixteene THE same day at Hereford the passion of S. Leofgar Bishop and Martyr who being Chaplyn to Duke Harold suâ—ceeded Ethelstane in that Sea where in all kind of vertue and good workes exercising his Pastorall functioÌ„ he was by K. Griffin of VVales that violently and vniustly assaulted that Citty slayne togeather with seauen of his Chanons that denied him entrance into the Church which when the said Griffin had spoyled robbed of all the reliques iewels and other ornaments that were portable he lastly fired both it and the whole Citty in the yeare of Christ one thousand fifty and six G The seauenteenth Day AT Hecknam in Normandy the deposition of S. Botulph Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland of a noble parentage and going ouer into France became there a monke and afterward was made the first Abbot of a new Monastery called Hecknam in Normandy which himselfe had caused to be built at his owne charges where in great sanctity of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and foure There is yet remayning a faire parish Church dedicated in his honour without Aldgate in the Citty of London besides many other ancient monumeÌ„ts of him in the Realme of England And among the rest there was a goodly ancient Church Monastery of Blackefriers erected in his honour in Lincolnshire neere to the sea side which in processe of tyme growing to a fayre Market-towne was called therof Botulphs-towne and now by the corruption of our language is vulgarly knowne by the name of Boston which said Church and Monastery were both in the raigne of King Edward the first consumed by fire in the yeare one thousand two hundred fourscore and seauen A The eighteenth Day IN Scotland the CoÌ„memoratioÌ„ of S. Dunstan Abbot Confessour borne in that Kingdome and descended there of a great parentage who contemning the vanities of the world in the flower of his youth tooke a Religious habit and became first a monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict in Scotland and afterward was ordained Abbot of the whole Monastery where in great sanctity of life famous for his learning and workes of piety in a good old age finally rested in our Lord
about the yeare of Christ six hundred and seauenty and was buryed in Scotland This man is different from the other S. Dunstan of England whose festiuall dayes are celebrated vpon the nineteenth of May and seauenth of September B The ninteenth Day AT Ely in Cambridgshire the Commemoration of S. Iohn Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being first a monke and then Abbot of Fountaines in Yorkeshire was for his great vertue and holinesse of life ordayned Bishop of Ely In which dignity he so gouerned himselfe especially in humility and charity to the poore that his memory was very famous aswell throughout England and Scotland at home as in other Countreys abroad And when he had sate in that Sea for fiue yeares or therabout famous for holinesse of life full of venerable old age he departed to our Lord in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred twenty and fiue in the raigne of King Henry the third and was buryed in his Cathedrall Church of Ely before the Altar of S. Andrew C The twentith Day AT Glastenbury in Somersetshire the Translation of S. Edward King and Martyr who through the deceipt of his step-mother Queene Alfred was slayne at Corse-Castle in Dorsetshire as he was on hunting His body was first buryed at VVarham and then at Shaftesbury and lastly on this day with great solenity translated to Glastenbury the tweluth yeare after his Martyrdome and yeare of Christ one thousand and one He was canonized for a Saint by Pope Innocentius the fourth THE same day at VVinockes-berge in Flanders the TranslatioÌ„ of S. Oswald King of Northumberland and Martyr who after many glorious battayles and combatts sought in defence principally of the Christian faith was at length slayne in hatred therof by PeÌ„da a PagaÌ„ King of the Mercians or middle Englishmen at a place in Shropshire called afterward of his name Oswaldes-tree where now is built a fayre Market-towne still retayning that ancieÌ„t name though somwhat corrupted in pronunciation and commonly called Oswistry His body was first buryed at Peterburrow in Northamptonshire and after in the Danish persecution on this day translated to Berghen in Flanders where it is kept with great veneration of the inhabitants His principall fel iuity was wont to be celebrated in our Catholicke Church of England vpon the fifth day of August and in diuers places kept holy day D The one and twentith Day AT Beuerwicke in the Diocesse of HarleÌ„ in South-Holland the passion of S. Englemund Martyr borne of a noble parentage in England who going ouer into Holland and Frizeland for the propagation of Christian faith was by Radbodus King of Frisia a Pagan and enemy to Christ most cruelly put to death about the yeare of our Lord seaueÌ„ hundred twenty and seauen His body was kept in an Oratory at the forsaid towne of Beuerwicke with great veneration euen vntill the Hollanders in this last age falling from the Obedience of the Catholicke Church and Sea of Rome imbraced heresy E The two and twentith Day IN Derswolds wood neere to the towne of S. AlbaÌ„s in Hartfordshire the passioÌ„ of S. AlbaÌ„ high Steward of the Britans and the first Martyr in our Iland of the British nation who in the persecution of Dioclesian the Emperour was beheaded for being made a Christian and receiuing and succouring a Christian Priest named Amphibale by whome he had byn baptized He suffered about the yeare of Christ three hundred and three and was afterward canonized for a Saint by Pope Adrian the first THE same day same place the passion of one of the souldiers that led S. Alban to execution who seing his constaney and patience in suffering for Christ being therwith greatly moued confessed forthwith his errour and asked the blessed Martyr forgiuenesse which when the persecutors beheld they grieuously tormented him for the same He notwithstanding following S. Alban to his death when his head was cut of tooke imbraced it in his armes therby was immediatly cured of all his wouÌ„ds inflicted by the persecutors And therupon confessing Christ was by the enemyes of trutâ— finally beheaded and so baptized in his owne bloud THE same day in like manner at S. Omers in Artoys in the Monastery of S. Bertin the Translation of S. Ortrude Virgin borne in England of a noble bloud whose body in the Danish persecution was translated from an ancient Monastery in our Iland called Andria to the forsaid Abbey of S. Bertin and is there yet preserued in a siluer shrine with great veneration among other Reliques in the Sacristia or Vestrey of that Church She died about the yeare of Christ six hundred seauenty and nyne F The three and twentith Day AT Ely in Cambridgshire the deposition of S. Edilâ—rude Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Annas King of the Eastangles and wise to King Egfrid of Northumberland who liuing with her husband twelue yeares in perpetuall viginity as S. Bede recordeth at last with his consent renounced the pleasure of this world and dignity of a Queene became a nunne first in the Monastery of Coldingham in the same Kingdome vnder S. Ebba her aunt and thence being ordayned Abbesse of the Monastery of Ely where before she had founded a goodly Church in honour of S. Peter the Apostle full of great sanctimony and holines of life she finally weÌ„t to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourscore Her body was buryed in the same Monastery ouer which there was erected a goodly Church dedicated to her name And being taken vp sixteene yeares after her death by her sister S. Sexburge then Abbesse of that place was found wholy vncorrupt and as fresh as if the had byn buryed but the day before S. Bede himselfe made a sonnet in moeter in praise of this Virgin which yow may read in the fourth booke of his History of England and twentith Chapter She is called by sundry writers Etheldride but in our owne language most commonly knowne by the name of S. Audry G The foure twentith Day AT Mechlyn in Brabant the passion of S. Rumwald Bishop and Martyr sonne to a King of Ireland who after he was consecrated Bishop of Dublyn in that Countrey went to Rome and thence returning into Flanders began to preach the Christian faith in the Territory of Mechlyn and there first planted the same vnder Count Ado of that Prouince of whome he was very honourably intertayned And when he had thus laboured in reducing the strayed sheep to the fold of his Maister Christ for many yeares he was at length there slayne in hatred of the Christian faith by two wicked souldiers one wherof the blessed Bishop had som tymes reprehended for adultery about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threescore fifteene His body remayneth still at Mechlyn and there is kept with great veneration in the Cathedrall Church in a very sumptuous siluer shrine though his
in the Iland of Hoy in Scotland was ordayned Bishop of Lindisferne where for many yeares hauing instructed his flocke in all vertue and good learning finally in great sanctity of life he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and nynty and in the raigne of Osred King of Northumberland F The thirtith Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Deusdedit Bishop and Confessor surnamed Frithona who being an English Saxon by birth succeeded S. Honorius in the Sea of Canterbury being consecrated therto by Ithimar Bishop of Rochester wherin when he had spent nyne yeares in continuall preaching and instructing his flocke famous for learning and sanctity of life he gaue vp his blessed soule to rest in the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and foure and was buryed in the Church of S. Augustines in Canterbury with his predecessors at whose body in confirmation of the innocency of his life it pleased God to worke many miracles THE MONETH OF IVLY G The first Day AT Carleon vpon Vske in South-wales the passion of the Saintes Iulius and Aaron Martyrs who being two noble ancieÌ„t Britans of the same Citty were in the persecution of the Roman Emperour Dioclesian with many others in our British primitiue Church most cruelly put to death for the Confession of Christ about the yeare of our Lord three hundred and foure There was an ancient goodly Church erected dedicated in their honour in the forsaid Citty of Carleon where also their bodyes haue in tymes past byn kept with great veneration of the old Britans of South-VVales THE same day in little Britany the deposition of S. Goluin Bishop and Conâ—essour borne in our Iland of great Britany of very honourable parents who going ouer into little Britany and there leading an Eremiticall life for many yeares was at last against his will elected and vpon obedience consecrated Bishop about the yeare of Christ six hundred In which function dignity he excelled in all kind of sanctity and holines of life working many miracles among the Frenchmen both aliue and dead A The second Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the deposition of S. Suâ—ithin Confessour and Bishop of that Sea whose rare life togeather with his working of miracles is very famous to all posterity through the Christian world Whensoeuer he was to consecrate any new Church though it were neuer so far of yet would he go thither on foote It chanced on a Market day at VVinchester that a womaÌ„ passing ouer the bridg with a basket of egges where the holy man was sitting to see the workmen labour about mending of the bridge and one of the said labourers offering to iest with the woman and she resisting brake all her egges which thing the good Bishop seeing and lamenting the womans losse made the signe of the Crosse ouer the said broken egges and immediatly they all became whos 's againe He died about the yeare of Christ eight huÌ„dred threescore and two and was buryed at VVinchester THE same day at Landaffa in Clamorganshire of VVales the deposition of S. Oudocke Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who being descended of a noble bloud in Britany was famous for holines of life and working of miracles both aliue and dead He was the third Bishop of Landaffa and succeeded S. Telean in the same Sea about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty B The third Day AT Canterbury the Translation of S. Lanfranke Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being Abbot of Cane in Normandy was thence at the suite of K. VVilliam the Conquerour promoted to the Sea of Canterbury where in great holines of life he gouerned the same most laudably for nineteene yeares togeather and at last desceased the third yeare of the raigne of K. VVilliam Rusus and yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and nyne Vpon this day his body being taken vp afterward was with great solemnity tranâ—lated to a more emineÌ„t place of the Church of CaÌ„terbury wherat it is recorded many miracles haue byn wrought THE same day at Oostkerke in Flanders the deposition of S. Guthagon Confessour Sonne to a king of Scotland who taking vpon him a voluntary pouerty for the loue of Christ went ouer into Flanders and there became a pilgrimâ— or Eremite in the territory of Tornay where in great sanctity holinesse of life he reposed in our Lord. His body was afterward taken vp by Gerrard Bishop of Tornay and set in a more eminent place of the Church of Oostkâ—rke in the yeare of Christ one thousand â—â—ty and nyne where the same is kept with great honour and veneration of the inhabitants and is yet to be seene there through iron grates placed in a wall of the same Church C The fourth Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Odo Conâ—essour Archbishop of the same Sea Who being a man of excellent learning wisdome was first made Bishop of VVelles after of Canterbury In which dignity in great sanctity of life spirit of prophesy he ended his venerable old dayes in the yeare oâ— Christ nyne hundred fâ—fty and eight and was buried at Canterbury Matthew a Monke of VVestminster recounteth a dreadfull exaÌ„ple of reuenge taken vpon his successour in that Bishopricke Ealysine who so soone as S. Odo was dead and procuring himselâ—e to be elected in his roome by Symony the very first day oâ— his induction to that Sea he most coÌ„temptuously trode him vnder his feete in his graue With which fact God being highly offended soone after reuenged the same in the behalfe of S. Odo For Ealssine going to Rome for his Pall perished most miserablâ— through hungar and cold in the Alpes which thing was â—ortould also by S. Odo being forced before his death to put those his feete in the warme dung of horses with which he had so insolently troden vpon the others body in his graue D The fifth Day AT Burton vpon Trent in Staffordshire the festiuity of S. Moduâ—ene Virgin and Abbesle daughter to Nangâ—â—ee King of Ireland who after infinite miracles wrought in that Kingdome came into England there by the help of K. Ethelnulse whose sonne she by her prayers had cured of a dangerous sicknesse builded two famous Monasteryes neere to the forrest of Arden in VVaruickshire the one at Polesbury the other by the forrest side of which later she her selfe was Abbesse first and then of another Monastery at the forsaid Burton in Staffordshire And after this she went into Scotland to King Conwall her kinsman and thence backe againe into Ireland where in all kind of rare sanctimony of life and miracles she finally ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and seauenty bequeathing her body to the forsaid Monastery of Burton whither it was brought and kept with great reuerence and veneration euen vntill our dayes Among her many miracles one is recorded that by
secretly away from his friends and with a fagot of wood insteed of a boat miraculously passed ouer the riuer of Seuerne and came into Glocestershire where leading an Eremiticall austere life was at length slaine by a Pagan souldier in hatred of Christian Religion whose head being cut of from his body himselfe tooke vp from the ground and carried to a fountayne wherat he was wont to wash it At which place there was afterward a Goodly Church erected in his honour about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and six where his body was wont to be kept with great veneration of the Inhabitants as also another dedicated vnto him in the Towne of VVells in Somersetshire which at this day is there standing to be seene B The eight twentith Day AT Brackley in Northamptonshire the Commemoration of S. Rumbald Confessour Sonne to a British King of our Iland who as soone as he was borne into the world and baptized did miraculously speake and fortell diuers wonderfull thinges and professing himselfe a Christian presently yielded vp the ghost His body was with great veneration buryed at the forsaid towne of Brackley wherat it is recorded diuers miracles haue byn wrought THE same day at Cullen in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Agnes Virgin and Martyr who being a noble Britan by birth and one of the number of the Eleuen thousand Virgins martyred with S. Vrsula was for defence of her chastity there put to death with the rest of her fellowes about the yeare of Christ three hundred fourscore and three herselfe afterward miraculously reuealing her name for which cause her body is peculiarly honoured of the Inhabitants of Cullen C The nine twentith Day AT London the deposition of S. Sebbe King of the East saxons and Confessour who after he had gouerned that Kingdome thirty yeares in great peace and tranquillity became a Monke in the Monastery of S. Peter and S. Paul at London distributing the greatest part of his goods to the poore before his entrance where within a few yeares after in great sanctity of life he peaceably rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and fifteene His body was buried in the Church of S. Paul in London in a costly marble Coffin where it was kept vntill our dayes with great veneration of the Cittizens for the miracles that are recorded to haue byn wrought therat THE same day at Dorchester in Oxfordshire the Translation of S. Edwold Confessour and Eremite brother to S. Edmund King Martyr who refusing the Kingdome of the Eastangles gaue himselfe for loue of Christ to a solitary life In which when he had liued many yeares in all sanctity and holines at last ended his blessed dayes at Dorchester where his body being interred about the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and eleuen was afterward on this day taken vp and translated to a more eminent place of the same Church where before it was land D The thirtith Day IN â—rance in the Diocesse of Meldune the deposition of S. Fiaker Confeslour Sonne to Eugenius the fourth of that name King of Scotland who forsaking all worldly dignities and delightes went ouer into France with his sister S. Syra and became a Religious man by the help and directions of S. Pharao Bishop of Meldune where in very great sanctity and holinesse of life he ended his blessed dayeâ— about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty In the Citty of S. Omers in Artors there is a Chappell or Oratory dedicated vnto S. Fiaker within the Parâ—sh Church of S. Margaret in the same Towne where his feast is kept on this day with great solemnity and veneration by the Sodality or Confraternity that is there instituted in his honour Where also is graunted Plenary Indulgence to all that rightly vâ—sit his Chappell on this day and fullfâ—ll the other circumstances conteyned in the Bull of Graunt by Pope Clement the eight dated in the yeare of Christ one thousand â—iue hundred nynty and seauen E The one and thirtith Day AT Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the deposition of S. Aidan Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose soule S. Cuthbert being then but a Sheepheard saw carried vp to heauen by two angells and was therby conuerted to a Religious life about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and one THE same day at VVimborne in Dorcetshire the deposition of S. Cuthberge Abbesse sister to King Inas of the VVestsaxons who building a Monastery of her owne charges at VVimborne entred her selfe therin tooke a Religious habit and became Abbesse of the same Where in all kind of vertuous exercise and Monasticall discipline togeather with working of many miracles she finally gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spousâ— about the veare of Christ seauen hundred twenty and seauen ALso the same day at Fulkstone in Kent the Translation of S. Eanswide Abbesse daughter to Eadbald King of Kent who despising all worldly and temporall honours studied how to attaine to Celestiall And entring into a monastery at FulkstoÌ„e aforsaid was afterward made Abbesse therof where in great sanctimony and holinesse of life she died about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourty Her body was afterward on this day taken vp and translated to a more eminent place of the same Church wherat it pleased God to worke miracles THE MONETH OF SEPTEMBER F The first Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of S. Elphege the first of that name Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose godly life and doctrine togeather with the spirit of prophesy hath byn very famous in ancient tymes throughout England He was the first that persuaded S. Dunstan to lead a Monasticall life as also ordayned him and S. Ethelwold Priestes And when the said Dunstan was expelled the Court by King Ethelred he came to this holy man Elphege of whome he was very gratefully receyued and coÌ„forted And finally full of venerable old age replenished with sanctity of life miracles â—e peaceably rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourty and six and was buried at VVinchester This man is different from the other S. Elphege of the same name who was Bâ—shop of Canterbury and martyred by the Danes in the yeare 1012. G The second Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Adaman Abbot and Confessour a man of wonderâ—ull vertue and austerity of life who beâ—ng made Abbot of S. Columbes Monastery in the Iland of Hoy by Scotland gouerned the same in great sanctity and holines togeather with obseâ—uance of Monasticall discipline vntill his dying day He was one of the first that by his doctrine and exhortations brought the Scottishmen as also a great part of the Britans to the Catholicke obseruatioÌ„ of the feast of Easter who before followed the errour of the Quartadeâ—imans in keeping therof He wrote in like
ambition of Queene Alstrude was after 20. yeares banishment restored againe by the forsaid Queene she being admonished therto by S. Ethelburge sometyme Abbesse therof who had appeared vnto her in a vision when she lay sicke complayning of the iniustice of the fact and there in very great fanctimony of life she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and fiue and was buryed at Barking whose body being taken vp thirty yeares after her death was found togeather with all her cloathes as whole and sound as if she had byn buryed but a few dayes before A The tenth Day IN the Territory of Ruremond in Gelderland the Deposition of S. Otger Deacon and Confessour who being a Monke in the North of England where he was borne and going to Rome in company of S. VViro and Plechelme returned thence into the low Countreyes and was most honourably receyued of Duke Pepin of Brabant who gaue him a certaine Territory and place of habâ—tation in his dominions where he might preach and plant the Christian faith which when he had done for many yeares with great feruour of spirit to the gayning of many thousand soules in those partes in great sanctity and holines of life he receyued the reward of his labours by reposing in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and one A great part of his body remayneth yet in the Cathedrall Church of Ruremond and is there kept with great veneration of the Inhabitants of that Diocesse B The eleuenth Day IN Ireland the Commemoration of S. Bather Abbot and Confessour scholler to S. Columbe the Great of that Kingdome who comming into Scotland with him to preach the Christian â—aith to the Pictes who then inhabited that Countrey and being a most vertuous and innocent man of life was by him made Abbot of a Monastery in the same Countrey which he had newly erected In which office and dignity he so behaued himselfe especially in the reformation of monasticall discipline that his name hath synce byn famous throughout the Kingdomes of Ireland and Scotland He desceased in great sanctity and hoâ—â—nes of life about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred fourscore and eleuen C The tweluth Day AT Fulkestone in Kent the deposition of S. Eansu I de Virgin Abbesse daughter to Eadbald King of Kent who forsaking all worldly conuersation and delights obtayned of her Father a solitary place in his kingdome to serue her spouse Christ which being graunted her at Fulkestone aforsaid she there built her selfe a little Oratory for a tyme and then gathering togeather many other noble Virgins imbraced a monasticall life and became Abbesse of the rest her Oratory being coÌ„uerted into a NuÌ„ry where in all kind of sanctimony of life and pious conuersation glorious for miracles she finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourty THE same day at VVimborne in Dorcetshire the Commemoration of S. Quemburge Virgin sister to Inas King of the VVestsaxons who vnder the Gouerment of S. Cuthberge her sister and Abbesse receaued the holy veyle of chastity in the Monastery aforsaid where in very great vertue humility and other pious excercises she ended her happy dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred twenty and seauen D The thirteenth Day AT VVester-woort in Gelderland the Deposition of S. VVerensrid Priest Confessour who being an EnglishmaÌ„ by byrth and descended of an honourable family became first a Monke in the Monastery of Rippon in Yorkeshire and thence went ouer into the Low-Countreyes Germany to preach the Christian faith where he conuerted the whole Prouince of Geldria and so became their Apostle He died on this day at the forsaid Towne of VVester-woort about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fiue and was afterward solemnely translated to Elst where his body hath byn kept with great veneration of the Inhabitants for the manifold miracles that haue byn wrought therat especially in curing the goute E The fourteenth Day AT Arpine in the Kingdome of Naples the Commemoration of S. Bernard Confessour who being an Englishman by birth and going to Ierusalem on pilgrimage togeather with S. Gerard his companio to visit our Sauiours sepulcher in his returne backe fell sicke in Italy where after a short space in all signes of sanctity and helines of life he reposed in our Lord. His body being obscurely buryed was many yeares after miraculously reuealed to the Archpriest of that place who with a sollemne procession brought the same vnto Arpine and placed it very decently in the Church where it is at this day kept with great veneration and honour of the Inhabitants as their chiefe Patrone for the manifold miracles that eueÌ„ in these our times are wrought therat especially in curing of Ruptures wherby the same place is now becoÌ„e a famous pilgrimage for such as are grieued with that infirmity His life and miracles are recounted more at large in the Records of the Church of Arpine of whome also there is a proper prayer with a Hymne or Sequentia wherin briefly is declared the whole story of his life both which are commonly read in the Masse and Office of his festiuall day F The fifteenth Day IN the Monastery of Dormundcaster in Northamptonshire two miles from Peterburrow the Commemoration of Blessed Chinneburge Queene daughter to Penda King of the Mercians and wife to Alfred King of Northumberland who with the consent of her husband he also hauing left the world and retyred himselfe to a Monasticall life in the Abbey of Mailros became a Religious woman in the forsaid Monastery of DormuÌ„dcaster where in all kind of sanctimony of life and pious conuersation she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and ten This forsaid Monastery being afterward called of her name Chinneburgcaster was in the yeare 1010. quite ouerthrowne by the Danes so as there is little or no memory therof left at this day in our Iland of Great-Britany G The sixteenth Day IN Scotland the deposition of S. Ninian Bishop and Confessour who descended of a noble British bloud was ordained Bishop of a place called S. Martins amoÌ„g the South-Pictes in the Marches of Scotland whome he conuerted to the Christian faith and became their Apostle He after died in Scotland about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and twelue whose body being buryed in the forsaid Church of S. Martin was there kept with great honour and veneration euen vntill the dayes of K. Henry the eight In whose honour also many goodly Churches and altars haue in former Catholicke tymes byn erected and dedicated in the Kingdome of Scotland THE same day at VVilton in the Church of S. Dionyse the deposition of S. Edith Virgin and Abbesse daughter to holy Edgar King of England who despising all worldly and temporall perfermentes became a Religious woman in the Monastery of VVilton vnder the
care and gouernment of her owne mother VVilsrede after whose descease she was made Abbesse of the same place where in all sanctimony of life she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and foure There are many goodly Churches and monumentes of her name yet to be seene in diuers places of EnglaÌ„d one particularly at a Towne called Church-Eaton in Staffordshire where there is a little well-spring of water very soueraigne for many diseases coÌ„monly called by the name of S. Ediths well A The seauenteenth Day IN South-wales the passion of the Sayntes Stephen and Socrates Martyrs who being two noble ancient Britans by byrth and conuerted to the faith of Christ in our Primitiue Church by the preaching of S. Amphibale Priest and Martyr were in hatred therof put to death in our Iland in the persecution of Dioclesian the Emperour by most exquisite tormentes togeather with many others for the same cause about the yeare of Christ three huÌ„dred foure There are diuers Churches yet remayning in Wales that in ancient tymes haue byn dedicated in their honour among whome also their memory is yet famous vntill this day especially in Monmouthshire and the Southerne partes adioyning B The eighteenth Day AT Berghen in Flanders the Translation of S. VVinocke Abbot and Confessour who descended of a noble British bloud and going ouer into the Low Countreyes to S. Bertin Abbot of the Monastery of Sitheù now called S. Bertins in the Citty of S. Omers was by him ordayned Abbot of an ancient Monastery named VVoromholt called afterward of his name S. VVinockes where in all kind of sanctity of life Regular discipline famous for miracles he reposed in our Lord. His body was afterward on this day translated to the forsaid towne of Berghen by Baldwyn Earle of Flanders about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and there is yet conserued with great veneration of the Inhabitants for the manifold miracles which it hath pleased God to worke therat C The ninteenth Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Theodore Archbishop of that Sea and Confessour who borne at Tharsis in Cilicia of a noble parentage became first a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and afterward was ordayned Archbishop of Canterbury and sent thither from Rome by Pope Vitalianus He celebrated two Prouinciall Synods in our Iland the one at Hartford the other at Hedtfeld concerning the Reformation of the Clergy of England And when he had in all vertuous and Saintlike behauiour gouerned the forsaid Sea of Canterbury for two and twenty yeares in most godly wise he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred and nynty and was buryed at Canterbury with a famous Epitaph in heroicall verse some part wherof yow may read in S. Bede setdowne in the fiâ—th Booke and eight Chapter of his History of England D The twentith Day IN ScotlaÌ„d the CoÌ„memoratioÌ„ of S. Cybthacke Priest CoÌ„fessour who being an Irishman by birth and Nephew to S. Columbe the Great of that Nation despised all worldly preferments and came ouer into Scotland with his said Vncle to preach the Christian faith to the Pictes who then inhabited part of that Kingdome And at last entring into a Monastery became a Monke of S. Benedictes Venerable Order in the Iland of Hoy vnder the care of the forsaid S. Columbe who had newly founded the same and was then Abbot therof where famous for sanctity of life and miracles throughout the whole Kingdome there ended his blessed dayes in rest about yeare of Christ six hundred and foure E The one twentith Day IN Ireland the Commemoration of S. Edilhun Confessour who being an English-man by byrth of great learning and vertue and brother to another Edilhun of the same name then Bishop of Lindisferne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers went ouer into Ireland to lead a more quiet kind of life remote from the world where after he had passed a few yeares in very great holines and sanctity he gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and fiue He had for companion in this his peregrination into Ireland a noble yong man named Egbert with whome liuing in a Monastery there called in the Irish tongue Rathmelsig whilst the plague infected sorely that Countrey he had a vision of his owne departure out of this life and of the escape of his fellow Egbert to whome when he had related the whole in an quietnes of spirit he gaue vp the ghost F The two and twentith Day AT â—indissa in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of S. Higbald Abbot and Confessour whose integrity of life and conuersation hath byn â—amous in tymes past throughout the whole Iland of Great-Britany He was Abbot of an ancient Monastery in the forsaid Kingdome of Northumberland in the tyme of VVulhere King of the Mercians and ended his happy dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore fiue He went into â—â—eland a little before his death to visit the holy Abbot Egbert who at that tyme was there very famous for the great opinion of his sanctity and holines of life with whome he had very many spirituall conferences and amoÌ„g other thinges discoursing of the death of S. Chad Bishop of Lichfield being a little before desceased holy Egbert related to haue seene his foule carried vp to heauen by the hands of Angells that descended thence to accompany the same G The three and twentith Day AT Kale in France the Commemoration of Blessed Hereswide Queene neâ—ce to S. Edwyn King of Northumberland and Martyr sister to S. Hlida and wife to King Ethelwold of the Eastangles who after the death of her Lord and husband forsaking all worldly pleasures friends and other prefermentes whatsoeuer went ouer into France there taking a Religious habit receyued therwith the holy veyle of Chastity in the forsaid Monastery of Kale where in very great humility and sanctimony of life she spent the rest of her dayes in prayer and contemplation of heauenly things and finally gaue vp her blessed soule to her heaueÌ„ly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and ten A The foure twentith Day AT Eyst in the higher Germany the Translation of S. VVinibald Abbot and Confessour Sonne to S. Richard King of the English who going ouer into Flanders Germany with S. VVillebrord and his fellowes to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith to those people founded a Monastery in the Prouince of Franconia called Heydelmaine and became himselfe Abbot therof which when he had gouerned for ten yeares in great sanctity holines of life â—he happily reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and threescore His body was afterward on this day solemnely translated to the forsaid Citty of Eyst and there placed in the Cathedrall Church togeather with the Venerable body
of his brother S. Willebald where the same is preserued with great veneration of the Inhabitants B The fiue twentith Day AT Langres in France the Deposition of 〈◊〉 Câ—olâ—â—id Conâ—esâ—our and Abbot of the ancient Monastery of S. Peter and S. Paul vpon the Riuer banke of VVyre in the Kingdome of the Northumbers now cailed VVyre 〈…〉 and Maâ—â—â—er to our famous S. Bede who going to Rome to obtayne Priuiledges for his saâ—d Monastery died in his iorney homward at Langres in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred seauenteene and there being most honourably interred in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty his body is kept vntill this day with great veneration There is a Letter of this holy mans yet extant in S. Bedes History which he wrote to Nâ—ionus King of the Piâ—â—es or Redshankes about the â—â—ue obseruation of the feast of Easter as also for the Reformation of his Clergy To whome in like manner saith the Story he sent cunning Carpenters workemen to buâ—d him a Câ—urch after the fashion of those in Norâ—humberland C The six and twentith Day AT VVestminster by LondoÌ„ the depositioÌ„ of S. VVuâ—â—y Abbot and Con 〈…〉 our who being a man of great vertue and innocency of life was by S. Dunstan created the first Abbot of VVestminster where in all kind of exemplar good life full of sanctity and miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and threescore His body was buryed in the same Monastery and there was wont to be kept with great veneration of the Citizens of Londâ—n Tâ—E same day in Scoâ—land the Commemoration of S. 〈…〉 us Monâ—e and Confâ—ssour who borne in Ireland and descended of a worthy parentage in that Kingdome came thence into Scotland in company of S. Co 〈…〉 e the great of that Nation whose d 〈…〉 ple he was aâ—d afterward his coadiutour impreaching the Christian â—aith to the Pictes After whose Coâ—â—ersion full of sanctity and miracleâ— he gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ â—â—ue hundred and fourscore D The seauen twentith Day AT Knobhersburge in the Prouince of the Eastangles the Commemoration of S. Sigeâ—ert King of the same Prouince and Martyr who inflamed with the loue of God left the administration of his Kingdome to his Cosyn Egricke and tooke a Religious habit in a monastery which himselfe had newly erected called Knobhersburge but a little after Penda the Pagan King of Mercia inuading his dominions he was by his Subiectes drawne by force out of his Monastery into the field where vnarmed hauing only a little rod in his hand was slayne togeather with his Cosyn Egriâ—ke by the forsaid Penda in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and two and the seauenteenth of his raigne and was afterward declared a Martyr It is recorded by diuers Historiograpâ—ers that he first founded the Vniuersity of Cambridge in his owne Prouince for the education and instruction of youth in all kind of good learning and liberall sciences E The eight twentith Day AT Fulda in tho higher Germany the deposition of S. Lioba Virgin and Abbesse who being first a Religious woman in the Monastery of Wimborne in Dorcetshire was called thence togeather with S. Teâ—la S. Agatha and diuers others into Germany by S. Boniface an Englishman and Archbishop of Mentz and there made Abbesse of a new Monastery which he had erected at a place called Biscopssen where after she had led a most Saintly life full of miracles she went at last to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fifty and seauen and was buryed at Fulda where her body is yet kept togeather with the venerable body of S. Boniface with great veneration of that Countrey round about F The nine twentith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Cogan Abbot and Confessour who borne in the same Kingdome of a very honourable parentage became there a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and after Abbot of the whole Monastery whose name being famous throughout our whole Iland of Great-Briâ—any â—or sanctity of life and learâ—ning he gaue vp his soule to rest in our Lord about the yeare of Christ 700. thrâ—â—score At whose body it pleased God in coÌ„firmatioÌ„ of his holines to worke many miracles In which Kingdome also there haue byn in tymes past many Chappell 's and altars dedicated in his honour but now all vtterly ruined by the vâ—fortunate change of Religâ—on in that Countrey to the lamentation of the Christian world G The thirtith Day AT Canterbury the Deposition S. Honorius Archbishop of the same Sea and Confessour who comming from Rome into England with S. Augustine our Apostle succeeded him afterward in his Office and was the fiâ—th Archbishop oâ— Canterbury Wâ—ich Sea when he had gouerned in all kind of sanctity and holy example of vertuous life full of Venerable old age he reposed happily in our Lord in the yeare of Christ six hundred fiâ—ty and three and was buryed in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty with his predecessours where his body was kept euen vntill our dayes with great honor and veneration due to so glorious a Confessour THE MONETH OF OCTOBER A The first Day AT London the deposition of S. Roger Confessour and Bishop of the same Sâ—a whose admirable vertues and sanctity of life wittnesse the Miracles that haue byn wrought at his body He died at Stepney a mile from London in a house belonging to that Bishops Sea in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and fourty whose body being brought to London was with all honour and veneration interred in the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul the Apostle in a faire tombe by the North-wall a little aboue the Quire with this Epithaph which is there yet remayning to be read Ecclesiae quondam Praesul praesentis in anno M. bis C. quater X. iacet his Rogerus humatus Huius erat manibus Domino locus iste dicatus Christe suis precibuâ— veniam des tolle reatus The people of Parma in Italy haue chosen him for one of the chiefe Patrons of their Citty by reason of a meruaylous victory they obtayned against Fredericke the Empeperour by the prayers of S. Roger whose body at that tyme shined with miracles in England THE same day at Oostkerke in Flanders the Translation of S. Guthagon Confessour Sonne to the King of Scotland who taking vpon him a voluntary pouerty for the loue of God went ouer into Flanders and there became a pilgrime or Eremite where in great sanctity of life he finally reposed in our Lord. Nicolas Bishop of Tornay on this day caused his body to be reuerently eleuated and placed more decently in the forsaid Church of Oostkerke in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred fourty and foure where the same is yet preserued with great veneration whose feast in like manner in there on this day
celebrated with great solemnity by the Inhabitantes round about MOreouer the same day at Condy in He 〈…〉 lt the deposition of S. VVas 〈…〉 lph Confessour who desâ—ended oâ— a nobâ—e bloud in the Kingdome of Ireland and brother to S. Etto of that Naâ—â—on did for the loue of Christ foâ—saâ—e his Countrey and friendâ— and went ouer into France to lead a solitary and strict kind of life where in great sanctity and holines famous for miracles â—e ended his blâ—ssed daâ—es in the Prouince oâ— Hen 〈…〉 whose body being yet preserued at the 〈◊〉 towne of Cordy is there honoured with great veneration of the Inhabitants B The second Day AT Hereford tâ—e Translation of S. Tâ—omas Bishop and Conâ—essour who being first Chancelour of the Vniuerâ—â—ty of Oxâ—ord theÌ„ of the whole Realme of â—nglaÌ„d was finally ordâ—â—ned Bishop oâ— Hereford which Sea wheÌ„ he had gouerned moâ—â—lâ—â—dably for many yeares he tooke his â—orney to Rome to Pope Mar in the second and died in his way homward at Mâ—te-â—â—sâ—oâ—e in the Dukedome of Florence in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fourscore and seaueÌ„ whose sacred Reliques being brought into England were with great veneration on this day placed in the Cathedrall Church of Hereford His miracles are Registred in the same Church to the number of foure hundred twenty fiue AmoÌ„g which it is recorded that by his prayers were raised from death to life threscore seuerall persons one and twenty leapers healed and three and twenty blynd and dumme men to haue receyued their sight speach C The third Day IN VVestphalia the Passion of the Saintes â—waldi brethren and Martyrs commonly called Alâ—us and Niger who being Priests and Monkes of the Monastery of Rippon in Yorkeshire went ouer into Ireland where liuing for diuers yeares in great austerity of life at last returned and went into Frizâ—land to preach the Christian faith to that Nation which they did for a long tyme with great labour and profit till comming into VVestphalia they were slayne by the old Pagan Saxone for the Confession of Christ about the yeare of our Lord six hundred fourscore and siâ—teene Their bodâ—es were afterward miraculously found in the riuer of Rhene most honourably layd in the Church of S. Cunibert at Cullen by Duke Pepin of France about the yeare of Christ 1074. and there are kept with great veneration of the Cittizens of that place D The fourth Day IN Northumberland the Passion of S. Eduyn King and Martyr who being the first Christian Prince of that Prouince and conuerted to the faith of Christ by the preaching of S. Paulinus Bishop of Yorke was afterward slayne in hatred therof by the impious Cadwalline King of the Britans Penda King of the Mercians in the yeare of Christ six hundred thirty and foure and in the seauenteenth of his raigne There was an ancient fayre Church somtyme crected and dedicated in his honour in the Citty of London by New-gate Market which there remayned vntill it was dissolued in this last age by King Henry the eight togeather with many other like goodly Monuments of Catholicke piety in our Kingdome E The fifth Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Conwalline Abbot and Confessour whose rare vertues and learning haue in tymes past byn famous not only throughout his owne countrey but in others also He was first a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and then made Abbot of an ancient Monastery in the Iland of Iona belonging to Scotland where in great sanctity of life and other vertues especially in the Reformation of Monasticall discipline he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and threefcore F The sixt Day IN NorthuÌ„berland the festiuity of S. Ywy Deacon and Confessour scholler and disciple to S. Cuthbert of Durham whose great holines of life hath in ancient Catholicke tymes byn famous in our Iland especially among the Northumbers He died as may be gathered out of antiquity about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and foure THE same day in Scotland the Commemoration of S. Comine Abbot and Confessour who descended of a noble bloud in the same Kingdome and disciple to S. Columbe the Great in a Monastery in the Iland of Hoy was for his great learning and vertue made Abbot by him of another Monastery in the same Prouince whose godly life and miracles haue in former tymes byn famous both at home abroad He died about the yeare of Christ 600. G The seauenth Day AT Chich in Essex the Passion of S. Osith Queene and Martyr daughter to the King of the Eastangles and wife to Suthred the last King of the Eastsaxons who with the consent to her husband foâ—â—ooke the world and receyued the holy veyle of Chastity in the Monastery of Alisbury but afterward building another of her owne in a Village called Chich in the Prouince or the Eastsaxons and gathering togeather many noble Virgins became herselfe Abbesse therof vntill the Danes inuading that Kingdome and comming vnto her said Monastery cut of her head in hatred of Christian Religion The which she taking vp from the ground carried three surloÌ„ges â—o a Church of S. Peter S. Paul where coming to the Church dore imbrewed in her owne innocent bloud she fell downe and so ended the course of her martyrdome about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and seauenty In the place also where she was beheaded there presently sprong vp a miraculous fountayne of water very soueraigne for many diseases which euen vntill this day is greatly esteemed by the Inhabitantes neere about Her body was first buryed at Alisbury in Buckinghamshire but afterward by a voyce from heauen it was commaunded to be translated to the forsaid Monastery of Chich now commonly called S. Osiths of her name situated not far from the sea side wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles THe same day at Lincolne the Translation of S. Hugh Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose body after fourscore yeares that it had byn buryed was on this day taken vp and being found altogeather vncorrupt with a great quantity of cleere and sweet oyle in the Tombe where it lay was put into a costly shrine of siluer guilt and richly adorned with precious stones and set in a more eminent place of the same Church or Minster at Lincolne in the raigne of King Edward the first and yeare of Christ 1282. where it hath euer synce byn kept vntill these our later dayes with great reuerence and veneration for the miracles that haue byn wrought therat A The eight Day AT VValciodore in the Territory of Liege the Translation of S. Eloquius Priest and Confessour who borne in Ireland of a noble pareÌ„tage coÌ„ming into England went theÌ„ce into the low-Countreys with S. Etto his fellowes to preach the Christian faith where after much fruite reapt in gayning of soules to God
586. His body is kept with great veneration at Paris in a Monastery there of his owne Name commonly called S. Maglors wherat it hath pleased God in signe of his sanctity to worke many miracles THE same day in France also the Commemoration of S. Maxentia Virgin and Martyr who being daughter to one Marcolane a noble man of Scotland and promised in matrimony to one of like dignity that was a Pagan she conteÌ„ning the same fled secretly into France with two of her trustiest seruaÌ„ts and there lay disguised for a tyme in a Village called Beauuaise liuing in continuall prayer and contemplation vntill being pursued by her pretended husband was at last found out and descried And when by no meanes she could be induced to yield vnto his mariage he turning loue into fury presently stroke of her head with his owne hands as also the heads of her two seruants Barbantius and Rosebea The Innocency of whose cause was presently manifested by a miracle which was that she taking vp her owne head from the ground carried it to the place where it now remayneth where afterward was a goodly Church â—rected in her honour and God glorified therin by many miracles Whose sacred body Charles then King 〈◊〉 France is said to haue greatly reuerenced adorned with sundry Royall giftes D The fiue twentith Day AT the Towne of Ceprano in the Kingdome of Naples the Commemoration of S. Ardwyne Priest and Confessour who borne in England of very worshipfull parentes and going to Hierusalem to visit the holy Sepulcher of our Sauiour in his returne backe from thence came into Italy where at that tyme the Plague sorely infecting the Kingdome of Naples in great sanctity of life he there gaue vp his blessed soule to rest His body was with all soleÌ„nity interred in the forsaid Towne of Ceprano where vntill this day it is kept with great honour and veneration of the Inhabitants for the dayly miracles it pleaseth God to worke therat in testimony of his holinesse and increase of the peoples deuotion to that place E The six and twentith Day AT Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Nor humbers the Deposition of S. Eatta Coâ—â—ssour and Bishop of that Sea who being first a Monke and then Abbot of the Monastery of Mailros in the same Prouince waâ— afterward ordayned Bishop of Lindisfarne now translated to Durham and predecessour to S. Cuthbert which when he had gouerned in all kind of vertue and sanctity of life for fiue yeares or therabout he was remoued to the Church of Hagustald resigning the Sea of Lindisserne to S. Cuthbert and within a while after in great holines famous for Miracles he departed to our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and six THE same day in Lorayne the Deposition of S. Albuine Bishop and Confessour who being an Irishman by birth and MoÌ„ke of a Monastery in the Iland of Hoy neâ—re Scoâ—land went ouer into Germany to preach the Christian faith where he conuerted the whole Dukedome of Lorayne and became the Apostle of that Prouince He was afterward made Bishop there of a place called Frislarium in the Towne of â—urbach where teaching and preaching continually to his flocke in great sanctity of life miracles he finally ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and fifty F The seauen twentith Day AT Mechlyn in Brabant the Translation of S. Romwald Bishop and Martyr Sonne to the King of Ireland who being ordayned Archbishop of Dublyn in the same Kingdome went to Rome for deuotion and thence backe into the lower Germany where in the Territory of Mechlyn vnder Count Ade of Flanders he first planted the Christian faith and became the Apostle of that Prouince He was afterward slayne in hatred of Christ by two soldiours in the same Territory in the yeare seauen hundred threescore and fifteene Whose venera 〈…〉 body was afterward on this day translated to Mechlyn with great solemnity and venâ—tion put into a goodly Shrine of siluer very richly set with precious stones and other ornaments wherat it hath pleased God to worke many miracles He was canonized for a Saint by Pope Alexander the fourth G The eight twentith Day IN Persia the PassioÌ„ of the glorious Apostle S. Symon surnamed Zelotes who according to diuers ancient wryters among other his peregrinations came into our Iland of Britany about the yeare of Christ fourty and six and there preached the Christian faith baptized ordayned Priests and Deacons erâ—cted Câ—urches and the like wherby we may worthily call him our Apostle and with greater so emnity celebrate his feaâ—â— by whome we receyued so singular graceâ— and benefitts He afterward went into Persia with S. Iâ—de to preach the Christian faith to the Infâ—dels of that Countrey where at last he receyued the reward of his labour by Martyrdome being nayled to a Crosse though Dorotheus wryteth that he 〈…〉 ed and was buryed in Britany THE same day at VVinchester in HaÌ„pshire the Deposition of Bâ—â—ssed Alfred King of the VVestsixons and Confessour who after many glorâ—ous and victorious battayles achieued against the â—agaÌ„ Danes that infested his realme in great sanctity and holines of life he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ eight hundred fourscore and nynteene and lieth buried at VVinchester He founded diuers goodly Monasteryes as tâ—â—t of Shaftesbury of VVinchester of Ethelingsey besides the famous Vniuersity of Oxford A The nine twentith Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Eadsine Bishop and Confessour who being Chaplyn to King Harold was first preferred to the Bishopricke oâ— VVinchester and thence to Canterbury whose innocency of life and other vertues haue byn famous in our Iland vntill these our dayes He spent the greatest part of his time in continuall prayer meditation of heauenly things And when he had gouerned the flocke committed vnto his charge for twelue yeares in a venerable old age he gaue vp his soule to rest in the yeare of Christ one thousand and fifty and was honourably interred in his owne Cathedrall Church of Canterbury where his body was wont to be kept with great veneration for the miracles that haue byn wrought therat THE same day in Scotland the Commemoration of S. Motifer Monke and Confessour who borne in Ireland and disciple to S. Columbe the Great came with him ouer into Scotland was his coadiutor there in preaching the Christian saith to the Pictes who in those dayes inhabited that Kingdome where famous for sanctity of life he made a holy end about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and fourscore B The thirtith Day AT CaÌ„terbury the depositioÌ„ of S. Egelnoth surnamed the Good Confessour and Anchbishop of the same Sea sonne to Earle Agehmare and sometimes Deane of Christs Church in Canterbury whose great holines of life togeather with his learning and vertues haue byn famous throughout ChristeÌ„dome but
to his Bishopricke he was constrayned through a vehement plague infecting those partes to go ouer into France The which being ceased and he returned was soone after slayne by a certaine noble Man of that Countrey called in the British tongue Gueddan about the yeare of Christ six hundred twenty and six His body was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Landaffa to whome the said Church is now dedicated where the same was preserued with all honour and veneration euen vntill the dayes of King Henry the eight of England A The six and twentith Day AT Fulda in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Egbert Abbot and Confessour who being a Scottishman by birth and descended of a noble family in that Kingdome forsooke his Countrey and went ouer into Germany in that Primitiue Church and there became first a Monke and after Abbot of a Monastery which S. Boniface Archbishop of Mentz and Apostle of the Germans had newly erected at Fulda aforsaid Where in very great sanctity of life and doctrine especially in the obseruaÌ„ce of Monasticall discipline he finally reposed in our Lord. Where also his body is yet kept with great honour veneration of the Inhabitants of that place This man is different from the other S. Egbert of the same Name that was Abbot of S. Columbs in Scotland whose feast is obserued vpon the foure and twentith day of Aprill B The seauen twentith Day AT Rhode in Brabant the deposition of S. Oda Virgin who borne in Scotland of the Roall bloud of that Kingdome and being strokeÌ„ blind weÌ„t ouer into the lower Germany to the body of S. Lambert at Liege where by his merits and her owne prayers she receyued againe her sight vowing perpetuall Chastâ—â—y to God that had so miraculouily deliuered her of that insirmity Her Father notwithstanding would haue had her to marry but she detesting the same neuer returned backe into her Countrey but lead a solitary and most holy life in the Territory of Liege where in all sanctimony spending the rest of her dayes in continuall prayer and contemplation of heauenly things she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirteene Her body remayneth in the forsaid Village of Rhode and there as Patronesse of that Towne is kept with great veneration for the often miracles that haue byn wrought therat C The eight twentith Day AT Dorchester in Oxfordshire the deposition of S. Edwold Confessour and Ermite brother to King Edmund the Martyr who refusing the Kingdome of the EastaÌ„gles after his Brothers passion gaue himselfe wholy for the loue of Christ to a kind of solitary life and heauenly contemplation In which after he had liued many yeares with great signes of sanctity holines ended his blessed dayes in an old Monastery at Dorchester aforsaid somtime called Corn-house and was there with great veneration interred about the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and eleuen D The nine twentith Day IN Clamorganshire of VVales the CoÌ„memoration of S. Barucke Confessour and Ermite who being desceÌ„ded of a noble British race in our IlaÌ„d did for the loue of God conteÌ„ne the world and become an Ermite leading a most strict and seuere kind of life in a little Iland of the sea in Clamorganshire called afterward of his Name Barucks-eye but now more corruptly Bardsey where in very great holines sanctity of life he gaue vp his blessed soule to rest in our Lord. His memory is yet very famous in the forsaid Prouince of Clamorgan as also among the ancient Britans of our Iland E The thirtith Day AT Derham in Norâ—olke the CoÌ„memoration of S. VVithburge Virgin daughter to Annas King of the Eastangles and sister to S. Audry and S. Sexburge Queenes who building with her owne patrimony a Nunry at Derham entred therin receiued a Monasticall habit Where after she had spent her dayes in great holinesse and sanctimony of life finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore S. Ethelwold Bishop of VVinchester in the yeare of Christ 974. hauing repayred the Abbey of Ely defaced by the Danes and adioyning vnto it this forsaid Nunry of Derham caused her body to be taken vp which was found whole and vncorrupt after aboue 300. yeares from her death and translated to the Abbey of Ely by Abbot Britlmote and there placed neere to the holy body of S. Audry her sister The said Monastery which she built being afterward conuerted into a parish Church remayneth vntill this day in Norsolke still retayning the forsaid name of Derham THE MONETH OF DECEMBER F The first Day AT Bangor in Caerneruanshire of VVales the Commemoration of S. Daniel Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose great sanctity of life and miracles haue byn famous in former ancient tymes throughout our whole Iland both aliue and dead especially among the ancieÌ„t Britans of VVales His body was buryed at Bangor aforsaid where the Cathedrall Church of that Bishopricke that now is was erected and dedicated in his honour He was the first Bishop of that Sea and liued about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and sixteene and in the Raigne of King Arthur of Britany G The second Day AT Dormundcaster two miles from Peterburrow in Northamptonshne the Commemoration S. VVeâ—de Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Penda a Pagan King of the Mercians and sister to the holy Virgins Kinneburge Kinisdred Kinisuide and Edburge who conteÌ„ning all worldly pompe and delightes for the loue of Christ entred into the Monastery of Dormundcaster asorsaid and there tooke the holy veyle of chaltity and monasticall habit vnder the gouerment of her owne sister Kinneburge that then was Abbesse of the same where after the death of her sister Idlurge that succeeded Kinneburge she was elected also to that Office Which three sisters one succeding another in the same dignity of Abbesse did as it were by an hereditar right leaue one the other their sanctimony and holines of life which eâ—h one conserued and augmented vntill her dying day This was the yongest of fiue sisters all Saintes and died about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore tweluâ— Her body was translated to Peterburrow and there intombed very richly with the rest of her sisters A The third Day AT Chure in Heluetia the Passion of S. Lucius the first Christian King of Britany and Martyr who being conuerted to the faith of Christ by the Saintes Fugatius Damianus sent from Rome by Pope Eleutherius afterward became himselfe a preacher of the same Doctrine and went ouer into France and thence into Germany where after many persecutions sustayned for the confession of Christ being at last according to ancient traditions ordayned the first Bishop of Chure was there finally put to death by the incredulous people of that Nation about the yeare of Christ one huÌ„ndred fourscore twelue
His feast is very soleÌ„nely celebrated with Octaues at Chure aforsaid as is to be seene in the Breuiary of that Diocesse wherin the whole story of his liâ—e is recounted at large THE same day at Dorcester in Dorcetshire the deposition of S. Birine Confessour and first Bishop of that Prouince who conuerted the VVestsaxons to the faith of Christ togeather with their King Kinegilsus and so became their Apostle He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred and fifty and was buryed at the forsaid towne of Dorcester but afterward translated to VVinchester by S. Hedde Bishop of that Citty and there with great solemnity and veneration being placed in the Cathedrall Church of S. Peter and S. Paul deserued to be honoured with this Epigram of an ancient Poet that wrote his life in verse Dignior attolli quà m sit Tyrinthius heros Quà m sit Alexander Macedo Tyrin hius hostes Vicit Alexander mundum Birinus verumque Nec tantùm vicit mundum Birinus hostem Sed sese bello vincens victus eodem IN like manner the same day in the Territory of Liege in the Lower Germany the deposition of S. Eloquius Priest Confessour who borne in Ireland went ouer the sea with diuers other Companions to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith to the Netherlanders where after much fruite reapt in great sanctity of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty one whose body was afterward translated to the Towne of VValciodore and there is kept with great veneration as Patrone of that place B The fourth Day AT Salisbury in VViltshire the deposition of S. Osmund Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being a Norman of noble birth came into England with King VVilliam the CoÌ„querour by whome he was first made Chancellour of the Realme and Earle of Dorset and afterward for that he was a most vertuous and learned man he was elected Bishop of Salisbury which Church being begon by his Predecessour he finished adding therto a goodly Library which he furnished also with many excellent bookes And when he had most laudably gouerned his flocke for sixteene yeares in great sanctity and holines of life he happily reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and nynteene and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Salisbury at whose body it pleased God to worke miracles He was canonized for a Saint by Pope Calixtus the third two hundred and fifty yeares after his death THE same day at Triuis in the Territory of Chure in the Prouince of Heluetia in Germany the festiuity of S. Emerita Virgin Martyr sister to King Lucius of Britany who going into Germany with her said brother was by the pagaÌ„ people of that CouÌ„trey for the confession of Christian saith put to death ending her glorious martyrdome by fire about the yeare of Christ one hundred fourscore and thirteene The whole story of her life is set forth at large in the Breuiary of the Diocesse of Chure aforsaid in her Office on this day C The fifth Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of S. Christine Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Prince Edward surnamed the Out-law and sister to the famous S. Margaret of Scotland who togeather with her mother Agatha entred into the Monastery of VVinchester and there became a Religious woman first and afterward Abbesse of the whole house In which dignity she perseuering in all kind of exemplar sanctimony of life and Monasticall discipline gaue vp her soule at last to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ one thousand and fourscore and in the raigne of King VVilliam the Conquerour D The sixt Day IN Ireland the Commemoration of S. Congellus Abbot and Confessour who being a most venerable Monke of the Order of S. Benedict and liuing with S. Malachias at that tyme Bishop of Connerthen in Ireland was by him ordayned Abbot of an ancient Monastery neere to the forsaid Bishops Sea in the same Kingdome where in very great sanctity of life miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and fourty THE same day at Cullen in Germany the Commemoration of S. Florentina Virgin and Martyr who being one of the number of the eleuen thousand holy British Virgins martyred with S. Vrsula was for defence of her Chastity there put to death with the rest of her fellowes about the yeare of Christ three hundred fourscore and three herselfe afterward miraculously reueyling her name E The seauenth Day AT Durham in the Bishopricke the CoÌ„memoration of S. Odwald Abbot and CoÌ„fessour who of a Monke of wonderfull Innocency and godly conuersation was elected Abbot of the monastery of Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers where in ad kind of holines of life and Monasticall discipline full of miracles he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and six and was afterward buryed at Durham aforsaid THE same day in Scotland the Commemoration of S. Gallanus Monke and Confessour who borne in Ireland and desceÌ„ded of a noble bloud in that Kingdome came ouer into Scotland with S. Columbe the Great whose senoller and disciple he was where teaching preaching the Christian faith to the Pictes that in those dayes inhabited Scotland famous for sanctity of life and miracles he departed this world about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and fourscore F The eight Day THE CONCEPTION of the most glorious and immacusate Virgin MARY mother of God by the grace and power of her Sonne that preserued her from all inquination of synne which feast being first of all begun to be celebrated in our Iland of Great Britany in the tyme of S. Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury and King VVilliam the Conquerour about the yeare of Christ one thousand threescore ten by the Monkes of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict to the honour and glory of the blessed Virgin was afterward confirmed by our Mother the holy Roman Church and coÌ„maunded to be kept holiday throughout Christendome to the increase of deuotion towards so mighty a Patronesse THE same day at VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of Blessed Agatha Queene daughter to Salomon King of Hungary and wife to Prince Edward of England surnamed the Outlaw and Mother to the two famous Saintes Margaret and Christine who when after the death of her husband she saw her Sonne Edgar to whome the succession of the Crowne of England by right belonged to be iniustly depressed and molested by the inuasions of King Harold first and after of the Conquerour and therby frustrated of the recouery of the Kingdome she with her two daughters resolued to take their iourney backe towards Hungary by sca but being driuen by teÌ„pest into ScotlaÌ„d they were very honourably receyued by King Malcolme who tooke the forsaid Margaret to wife And after a while
that they had stayed there Agatha the Mother and Christine the other daughter returned into England entred both into the Monastery of Religious women at VVinchester where in very great sanctimony of life they finally ended their blessed dayes the Mother desceasing about the yeare of Christ one thousand threescore and twelue whose body being interred in the same Monastery hath byn kept with great veneration euen vntill our dayes G The ninth Day AT Shaftesbury in Dorcetshire the Commemoration of S. Ethelgine Abbesse daughther to Alfred King of the VVestsaxons who despising all temporall and worldly preferments tooke a Religious habit and became a Nunne in the Monastery of the forsaid Towne of Shaftesbury which her Father had there newly erected wherof at last she being ordayned Abbesse gouerned the same in all sanctimony of life and exact Monasticall discipline vntill her dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ eight hundred fourscore and sixteene A The tenth Day AT Glower in Clamorganshire of VVales the Commemoration of S. Chiâ—â—d Confessour and Eremite who borne in Wales and there descended of an ancient and noble British lynage contemned the vanityes of the world and for the loue of Christ became an Eremite leading a most strict and seuere kind of life in the Mountaynes of the forsaid Prouince of Clamorgan where in very great sanctity and holines of life he finally ended his happy dayes His body was buryed at the forsaid Towne of Glower whose memory hath in tymes past byn very famous throughout England but especially among the ancient Britans of VVales B The eleuenth Day IN Morauia the Commemoration of S. Geruadius Bishop and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of a noble parentage in that Kingdome tooke a Religions habit and became a Monke there of the Venerable order of S. Benedict and thence went ouer into Germany and lastly into Morauia where being created Bishop he preached the Christian faith incessantly to that Nation and became their Apostle And a ter that he had brought many thousands from their Idolatry to the true worship of one God full of venerable old age in great sanctity and holines of life he finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and soure C The tweluth Day IN the I le of Crowland in Lincolnshire the Commemoration oâ— S. Elâ—rede Virgin daughter to Offa the Pagan King of Mercia who being conuerted to the ChristiaÌ„ faith principally by the murder coÌ„mitted by her Mother vpon King Ethelbert of the Eastangles that came to demaund her in Marriage for his wife forsooke her said parents friends and all other worldly prefermeÌ„ts and tooke a Religious habit in the Monastery of S. Guthlacke in the forsaid I le of Crowland where in great sanctimony of life and obseruance of Monasticall discipline she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fourscore and thirteene D The thirteenth Day AT Pontoyse in France the Deposition of S. Iudo 〈…〉 Confessour and Ermite who being desceâ—â—ed of a most noble British bloud forsaking all worldly prefermentes went ouer into France and there for the loue of Christ became an Ermite In which kind of life he so excelled in sanctity and holines that it pleased God to manifest the same by the incorruptibility of his body which is kept whole vntill this day with great veneration at the forsaid Towne of Po 〈…〉 oyse He gaue almes foure tymes to Christ visibly in the habit of a poore man that demaunded the same and died in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and three Whose worthy praise this distich declareth Regia Progenies veterum styrps clara Britannúm Ecce nitet ruâ—la Iudocus luce per Orbem THE same day in the â—le of Thanet in Kent the deposition of S. Edburge Virgin and Abbesse daughter to blessed Ethelbert the first Christian King of that Prouince who being baptized and instructed in the Christian â—aith by S. Augustine our Apostle forsooke the world and entred into the Mona 〈…〉 ery of holy Virgins erected in the I le of Thanet aforsaid vnder the gouerment of her neece S. Mâ—ldred after whose death she became Abbesse of the same place where in all sanctimony of life she ended her blessed dayes S. Lansranke Archbishop of Canterbury in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and siue translated her body as also S. Mildreds vnto Canterbury and placed them there in the Church of S. Gregory which he had newly repayred and enriched wherat miracles are recorded to haue byn wrought E The fourteenth Day AT Cullen in Germany the CoÌ„memoratioÌ„ of S. Munborine Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of a noble bloud in that Kingdome despised the world and became first a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and afterward went ouer into Germany and there was made Abbot of a Monastery dedicated to S. Martin in Calles which when he had most laudably gouerned for twelue yeares or therabout in great sanctity of life and miracles he endeâ— his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred four score and thirteene and was buryed in the same place F The fifteenth Day AT Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Translation of S. Hilda Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Prince Herericke nephew to Edwyn King of the same Prouince who from her infancy giuing herselfe wholy to deuotion and piety became a Religious woman first in a little Nunry by the Riuer of Wyre and then was ordayned Abbesse of a Monastery erected in the forsaid Kingdome neere to the sea side called Hartsey at this day coÌ„monly knowne by the name of VVhitby in Yorkeshire afterward of another Monastery also in the same Prouince called StreÌ„shalt which herselfe had built where in all kind of holines of life excercise of Monasticall discipline glorious for miracles she finally weÌ„t vnto her spouse in the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourscore Her body was after many yeares taken vp and set in a more eminent place of the forsaid Church of Strenshalt where before she lay buryed wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles G The sixteenth Day AT Aberdine in Scotland the depositioÌ„ of S. Bean Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose wonderfull holines of life togeather with the Miracles he wrought both aliue and dead haue in tymes past byn famous throughout the Christian world but especially in Scotland and Ireland where also many goodly Churches Altars haue byn erected and dedicated in his honour THE same day at Dormundcaster-Monastery two miles from Peterburrow in NorthaÌ„ptonshire the Commemoration of S. Tibbe Virgin and Anchoresse who descended of a noble bloud in our Iland and KinswomaÌ„ to the Saints Kinisdred and Kiniswide forsooke the pleasures of the world and became an Anchoresse for the loue of Christ liuing a most strict and seuere kind of
reclused life in great holines and sanctimony vntill her dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and nyne and was buryed with her forsaid Kinswomen at Dormundcaster A The seauenteenth Day AT VVimborne in Dorcetshire the Commemoration of S. Tetta Abbesse sister to Cuthredus King of the VVestsaxons who forsaking the vanityes of the world and receyuing the holy veyle of Chastity in the Monastery of VVimborne aforsaid was after the death of S. Cuthberge foundreste therof made Abbesse of the same place where in very great sanctimony of life obseruance of monastical discipline she gaue vp her blessed soule to rest about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and six There is a letter yet extant wrytten by S. Boniface Archbishop of Mentz to this S. Tetta for the sending of the Virgins Tecla Lioba Agatha and others out of her Monastery into Germany in the beginning of that Primitiue Church to be made Abbesses and directresses of diuers new Monasteryes which S. Boniface aforsaid had erected in that Countrey B The eighteenth Day AT Heydelmayne in Franconia the Depositiō of S. VVinibald Abbot Cōfessour Sonue to S. Richard King of the English who going ouer into the low-Countreys and Germany with S. Boniface his V 〈…〉 cle Archbishop of Mentz and Apostle of the Germans was by him ordayned Abbot of a Monastery which himselfe had there founded in the same Prouince called Heydelmayne which when he had gouerned for ten yeares in great sanctity of life glorious for miracles and other renowned vertues he ended his blessed dayes in rest in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and threescore and was buryed in the same Monastery with this Epitaph engrauen on his tombe Hic VVinibaldus Richardi silius almus Qui Regnū Anglorū 〈…〉 ox linquens hoc Monachorū Claustrum fundauit Benedictique dicauit Nomine septingento quinquagesimoue anno His body was afterward translated to Eyst in Germany and there interred with his brother S. VVillebald where it is kept with great Veneration C The ninteenth Day AT VVirtzburgh in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Marcharius Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland of a worthy family and taking vpon him a Monasticall habit in the same Kingdome went ouer into France and thence into Germany and was ordayned Abbot there of an ancient Monastery in the forsaid Citty of VVirtzburgh where in very great sanctity of life renowned for miracles he ended his blessed dayes in peace about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and fourty Among other his Miracles one is recounted that sitting at a banquet he turued wyne into water to the astonishment of all the behoulders there present D The twentith Day IN Ireland the Commemoration of S. Comogel Abbot and Confessour whose holy life and doctrine haue byn famous in tymes past in the Kingdome of Ireland especially for the reformation obseruance of Monasticall discipline He was Abbot of the great and ancient Monastery of Benchor in Ireland maister to the famous S. Columbane of that Nation whome he instructed in all kind of good learning and other vertues before his sending into France and Italy And when he had gouerned the same Monastery for many yeares full of sanctity and venerable old age he finally gaue vp his soule to rest in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred and foure E The one and twentith Day AT Dormundcaster two myles from Peterburrow in Northamptonshire the Commemoration of S. Edburge Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Penda the Pagan King of the Mercians who contemning all worldly and temporall pleasures became a Religious woman in the Monastery of Dormundcaster aforsaid vnder the care of S. Kinneburge her sister after whose death she being chosen Abbesse gouerned the same in all sanctimony of life and other vertues vntill her dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourscore and was buryed in the same place neere to her said sister This holy woman is different from the other three of the same Name whose festiuall dayes are celebrated vpon the fifteenth of Iune eighteenth of Iuly and thirteenth of December And besides these there was another Edburge also Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Ethelnulph King of the VVest saxons who gouerned the Monastery of holy Virgins at VVinchester in Hampshire full of renowned holynes and same about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and threescore F The two and twentith Day AT Barking in Essex the Commemoratiō of S. Hildelide Virgin and Abbesse who for her great vertue and sanctimony of life was made Abbesse of the Monastery of holy Virgins at the forsaid towne of Barking and succeeded in that office S. Edilburge inter to to S. Erconwald Bishop of London by whome the said Monastery was crected where in the exercise of all kind of vertue obseruāce of Monasticall discipline renowned for miracles she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ scauē hūdred There is a story recorded how that three blynd womē on a tyme came to this said Monastery of Barking to beseech the help and patronage of three holy Virgins there desceased and all famous for holines to wit the forsaid Edilburge VVulfhild and this our Hildelide and there praying a long tyme they were at last restored to their sight but ech one by the intercessiō of that particular Saint to whome she prayed This Monastery was afterward in the Danish persecution burned to the ground defaced and spoyled to the great lamentation or all England C The three and twentith Day IN VVales the Commemoration of S. Inthware Virgin and martyr who being descended of the ancient British bloud in our Iland liued a most godly and vertuous life in her Fathers house being wholy occupied in intertayning seruing of pilgrims and strangers that resorted thither After her Fathers death she being enuied for her holines of life by her stepmother was by a malitious deuise of hers accused to her own brother called Bana to be an harlot whervpon in this rage he slew her with his owne hands as she came one day from the Church Whose innocency was presently testified by this wonderfull miracle that hauing her head cut of she instantly with her owne handes tooke it vp from the ground and carried it to the Church from whence she came as also in the same place where she was beheaded there sprang vp a fountaine of cleere water very soueraigne for many diseases She suffered about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred About which tyme also there liued three sisters of hers all very holy women called Edware VVilgith and Sidewell who as they were conioyned to her by neernes of bloud and byrth so where they also vnited in singular sanctimony of life F The foure twentith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Ruthius Monke and Confessour who being an Irishman by byrth descended of a noble
it His body was buried at VVinchester wherat many miracles by his merits are recorded to haue byn wrought B The three and twentith Day AT Mailros vpon the Riuer-banke of Tyne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of S. Boysill Confessour and Abbot of that famous Monastery wherin S. Cuthbert was brought vp and vnder whome he first put on his Religious habit whose great holynes of life and singular vertues especially in the gift of Prophesy haue byn famous in tymes past throughout our whole Iland And when he had for many yeares most exemplarly gouerned that Monastery being by an angell admonished of his death he ioyfully departed this transitory life about the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and ten and was buryed in the same Manastery Cuthbert succeeding him in his office C The foure twentith Day AT Beneuentum in Italy the passion of S. Sophias Bishop Martyr who being a noble Britan by birth sonne to Guelleicus King of North-wales became first a mōke then Abbot of a Monastery which himselfe had built in VVales with his owne inheritāce and lastly hauing byn three tymes at Hierusalem to visit the holy sepulcher of Christ scauen tymes at Rome on pilgrimage was for his knowne vertues and innocency of life created Bishop of Beneuentum in Italy where stāding at the altar at Masse was by a wicked fellow in hatred of Christian beliefe thrust through the body with a lauce so receyued a crowne of Martyrdom about the yeare of Christ foure hundred nynty in the raigne of King Arthur of Brittany whose Kinseman he is said to haue byn THE same day in Monmouthshire the festiuity of S. Cadocke Martyr nephew to Bragham King of Brecknocke and Cosyn to S. Dauid Bishop of Meneuia whose memory is famous euen vntill this day in our Iland of Great Brittany especially in the forsaid Prouince of Mōmouth in South-VVales where there are yet remayning Churches Chappell 's dedicated in his honour He suffered about the yeare of Christ 500. D The fiue twentith Day THE Conuersion of the glorious Apostle S. Paul by whome our Iland of great Brittany hath receyued no small fauour For that according to diuers ancient wryters in the fourth yeare of Nero the Emperour his raigne the Iewes being by his Edict banished Rome he personally came into Brittany and there preached the faith of Christ. Venantius Fortunatus a most holy and learned mā wryting aboue a thousand yeares agone of S. Paules perigrination saith of him Transijt Oceanum vel qua facit Insula portum Quasue Britannus habet oras atue vltima Thule After this he returned againe to Rome where at last both S. Peter and himselfe on one and the selfe same day receiued the reward of their labours by Martyrdome in the yeare of Christ threescore and nyne THE same day in Ireland the Commemoration of S. Eoglodius Monke and Confessour who descended of a noble parentage in that Kingdome and disciple to S. Columbe the Great came with him ouer into Scotland and was his coadiutor in teaching and preaching the Christian faith to the Pictes that then inhabited that Countrey where famous for sanctity of life and other vertues finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ foure hundred fourscore and seauen E The six and twentith Day AT Barking in Essex the Commemoration of S. Theorithgid Virgin who descended of a very noble Brittish stocke became a Religious woman in the Monastery of the forsaid towne of Barking vnder the care of S. Edilburge the first Abbesse therof sister to S. Erconwald Bishop of London who had newly founded that Abbey where in great sanctimony of life and feruour of spirit she gaue vp her blessed soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred seauenty and eight vnto whome S. Edilburge appearing as she lay on her death-bed told her with most sweet and comfortable words that the tyme now drew neere that she should be deliuered out of the prison of this world into the ioyes of eternall blisse F The seauen twentith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Palladius Bishop and Confessour who being a Roman by birth was sent thither in the yeare foure hundred and eleuen by Pope Celestine to reduce that Nation from certaine errors and heresyes which Pelagius the Brittan had sowed among them where being ordayned Bishop and Primate of Scotland he instructed the people for many yeares in all good learning and other Catholicke cerimonyes according to the Roman vse and lastly full of venerable old age in great sanctity and holines of life he gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ foure hundred and fourty G The eight twentith Day IN the I le of VVight in Hampshire the Commemoration of the Saintes called Arwaldi Brothers and Martyrs who being two noble yong men descended of the bloud Royall of the South Saxons brothers to the King of that Iland were taken prisoners by Ceadwall King of the Geuisses VVestsaxons who being but newly baptized were by him commanded to be slaine in the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore seauen Their bodyes were decently interred in a Church of that Prouince by S. Cymber Abbot of Redford in Hampshire by whome they had a little before byn baptized instructed in the Christian faith wherat in signe of their Innocency it pleased God forthwith to worke miracles A The nine twentith Day IN Cornwall the deposition of S. Gildas Confessor and Abbot of Bangor in North-wales who after he had written many famous bookes as well for the illustratiō of the Vniuersall as our Primitiue Church of Brittany became an Eremite lead a most strict and seuere kind of life in the mountaynes of Cornwall where full of venerable old yeares he rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ 581. He is famous yet among the Cornishmen of Englād especially for his writings amgonst whome also there haue byn many Churches altars dedicated in his honour B The thirtith Day AT Fulda in the higher Germany the deposition of S. Amnichade Confessour who descended of a noble parentage in Scotland forsooke the world went ouer the sea and trauailing into Germany at last became a monke in the Monastery of Fulda which had byn founded by S. Bonisace an English-man for the Scottish nation where liuing a most Godly and exemplar life when he was ready to die a great light was seene and Angelicall voyces heard in his Cell the which continued a long tyme after at his Sepulcher and were heard of all that came to visit it He died about the yeare of Christ one thousand fourty and three and lieth buryed at Fulda in the forsaid Monastery C The one thirtith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Adaman Priest and Confessour who being Prefect of the Monastery of Nunnes in the towne