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
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
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
right hand and then his left legge and last of all his head about the yeare of Christ foure hundred and eleuen His body was buried in an old Church in Cornwall wherat in signe of his innocency it pleased God forth with to worke many miracles where also his reliques were kept with great honour and veneration euen vntill our dayes D The fourth Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Croniacke Confessor who borne of a very noble parentage in that Kingdome tooke a Religious habit and became a Monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict where in all kind of â—anctity of life and Monasticall discipline he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fifty His memory is yet very famous amongst the Catholickes aswell of the Scottish as the Irish Nation in both which Kingdomes in former tymes many Churches and altars haue byn dedicated in his honour It is heere and in many other places to be obserued that the Irish and Scottish Historiographers do oftentymes disagree about the natiue Contrey of diuers Saintes mentioned in this Martyrologe For that in auncieÌ„t tymes the Iland of Hybernia being called Scotia hath caused a great confusion especially amongst forrayne wryters who for want of knowledge heerin do often confound the one nation with the other E The fifth Day AT VVestminster by London the deposition of S. Edward King and Confessour who being yet in his Mothers wombe was elected crowned and annoynted King by S. Peter the Apostle as it was miraculously reueyled to S. Brituald Bishop of VVinchester that liued at the same tyme. He was very famous for working of miracles especially in curing a disease of swelling in peoples throtes which was afterward therof called the Kinges-euill His body being taken vp thirty six yeares after his death was found as flexible and vncorrupt as when it was first buryed He was Canonized for a Saint by Pope Alexander the third in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred threescore and three His translation was wont to be kept holy-day throughout England vpon the thirteenth day of October of whome in that place we haue set downe a larger Narration F The sixt Day AT Bologne in France the Commemoration of S. Peter Confessor who being by S. Augustine our English Apostle ordayned Abbot of a new Monastery neere vnto Canterbury which K. Ethelbert of Kent had founded and going ouer into France was by tempest of sea drowned neere to the coast of Bologne where the InhabitaÌ„ts finding his body buried it in an obscure place but a certaine miraculous light from heauen being seene euery night to shine theron the people began to inquire further what he was and at last hauing intelligence from England that it was the forsaid Abbot they tooke vp his body and translated it with great solemnity to Bologne and there with due veneration placed it in a Church wherat in signe of his sanctity and holines of life miracles are said to haue byn forthwith wrought This happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred and seauen G The seauenth Day AT London the festiuity of S. Ced Confessor and second Bishop of that Sea brother to S. Chad of Liâ—â—field who by his continuall preaching to the Mercians and Eastsaxons conuerted many thousands to the faith of Christ and is worthily called their Apostle The Sea of London being voyd for many years after the death of S. Mellitus he was at length consecrated therto at the intercession of Sigebert K. of the Eastsaxons who was newly conuerted to the Christian faith And afterwards building a goodly Monastery at a place called Lestinghen in the Prouince of the Deires and replenishing the same with many monks at last in great sanctity of life full of venerable old age he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and foure and was buried in his forsaid new Monastery where he desceased S. Bede recounteth that when afterward his brother S. Chad died his soule was seene to descend from heauen with a troupe of Angells to accompany the same to paradise A The eight Day AT London the deposition of S. Guithelme Bishop and Confessor who borne of a noble bloud in our Iâ—aÌ„d in the Primitiue Church of Britany ordayned Archbishop of London was very famous for preaching the Christian faith to the Pagans of our nation And after a most Saintly life full of miracles in a good old age he most blessedly departed this world about the yeare of Christ foure hundred and threescore THe same day at Yorke the Translation of S. VVilliam Confessor and Bishop of that Sea kinsman to K. Stephen of England who after he had most patiently endured many iniuryes and wrongs yea and banishment also from his bishopricke and flocke being againe restored by Pope Anastasius the fourth in great holines of life he ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred fifty and foure His venerable body being after many yeares taken vp on this day was with great solemnity translated to a more eminent place of his owne Cathedrall Church of Yorke wherat in signe of his innocency through his merits it pleased God to worke miracles B The ninth Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Brituald Bishop and Confessor who being constituted the first Abbot of the Monastery of Rheaculse in Kent now called Reaculer which holy K. Ethelbert of that Prouince had founded soone after his Conuersion was thence promoted to the Archbishopricke of Canterbury and succeeded S. Theodore in that Sea which when he had gouerned for almost fourty yeares in great sanctity and holines of life full of venerable old age he gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and thirty and was buryed at Canterbury THE same day and same place the deposition of S. Adrian Abbot who borne in in Asricke and sent into England with S. Theodore of Canterbury aboue named by Pope Vitalian after he had taught the Christian faith in our Iland for nyne and thirty yeares togeather full of sanctity of life miracles he departed to our Lord in the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and ten and was buryed in S. Augustines Church at Canterbury THE same day also at Poâ—toise in France the Translation of S. Iudocus coÌ„monly called in English S. Ioyce who descended of a noble Brittish bloud forsooke the world and became an Ermite in France where in all kind of most godly life and conuersation he ended his blessed dayes His body being taken vp on this day threescore yeares after his death was found as flexible and vncorrupt as if it had byn buryed the day before And being put into a costly shrine was placed in a more eminent roome of the same Church about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and thirteene wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles C The tenth Day AT Brige neere Paris in France the Commemoration
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
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
who being sent from Rome by S. Gregory the Great to preach the Christian saith to the English nation first conuerted King Ethelbert of Kent and afterward by himselfe and others the whole Nation and so became our Apostle He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred and was buryed at Canterbury where his feast was wont to be kept hoâ—yday with great solemnity and so likewise throughout the whole Diocesse THE same day at Glâ—stenbury in Somersetshire the festiuity of the Saints Fugatius and Damianus Confessours who being sent into Britany by S. Eleutherius Pope whose â—east is also this day celebrated did baptize K. Lucius with the greatest part of his Kingdome as also did institute three Archbishoprickes to wit London Yorke and Carleon in VVales and twenty eight Bishoprickes in place of so many Flaminies teaching and instructing the people in all Christian vertues and cerimonyes necessary for that new planted Catholicke Church And when they had thus laboured for many yeares sull of most venerable old age and sanctity of life they both ended their blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one hundred fourscore and eleuen and are said to haue byn buryed at Glâ—stenbury G The seauen twentith Day AT Geruaux in Yorkshire the deposition of S. Bede Priest who being a monke of the Order of S. Benedict in the Monastery of S. Peter and S. Paul vpon the riuer banke of VVyre in the Kingdome of the Northumbers so illustrated Gods Church by his wrytings that not only in his life tyme but euer synce he hath for the same byn called by the name of Venerable He departed this world in great sanctity and holinesse of life about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threescore six and was buryed at Geruaux in the Monastery there with this Epitaph Presbyter hic Beda requieseit carne sepultus Dona Christe animam in caelis gaudere per aeuum Daue i i sophia debriari fonte cui iam Suspirauit orans intento semper amore But his body being afterward translated to Durham and placed in the tombe togeather with S. Cuthbert was there kept with great reuerence euen vntill the dayes of the late Queene Elizabeth There is a very ancient Table hanging in the new Church of S. Peter at Rome which my selâ—e haue seene and read wherin are registred these words In medio Ecclesiae ante portaÌ„ quae dicitur Argentea sub lapide circulari sepultum est corpus Venerabilis Bedae Presbyteri c. But it is not I suppose to be vnderstood of this our S. Bede of England as many do but rather of another of the same name though not so ancieÌ„t as he who was a MoÌ„ke also of S. Benedictes Order very famous for learning in the tyme of Charles the Great with whome he liued and after his death which was in the yeare of Christ eight hundred and ninteene his body shining with miracles was for a tyme translated to the Monassery of S. Benignus neere Genua in Italy and perhaps afterwards to Rome But whosoeuer this was it is not any way manifest that our S. Bede was euer at Rome eyther aliue or dead A The eight twentith Day AT LuxouiuÌ„ in France the Commemoration of S. Ionas Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland of a noble parentage and contemning the world in the flower of his youth went ouer into France and thence into Lombardy to S. Columbane the Great where he became a monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict and S. Columbanes disciple and was afterward made Abbot of Luxouium where in all kind of good learning sanctity of life and other vertues he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty He wrote the liues of S. Columbane aforsaid S. Eustachius and S. Bertulph Abbots which are to be seene at large in Surius though being annexed to the third Tome of S. Bedes workes are by errour attributed vnto him B The nine twentith Day ATS. Buriens in Corn-wall the Commemoration of S. Burien Virgin who being an Irish-woman of great nobility by birth came ouer into England and liued a most vertuous and godly life for many yeares in Corn wall where in very great sanctimony and working of Miracles she finally gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse Her memory is very famous euen vntill this day in our IlaÌ„d of Great Britany especially among the Cornish-men where there is a towne and port of her name in the Cape or Promont of Cornwall commonly called S. Buriens where also in tymes past hath byn a famous Church erected in her honour C The thirtith Day AT Colchester in Essex the Commemoration of S. Hieu Virgin who borne of oâ— a noble bloud in the Kingdome of the Northumbers building there a goodly Monastery called Heorthâ—u of which the holy Virgin Hilda was first Abbesse is said to haue byn the first woman in that Kingdome that tooke vpon her the vow and habit of a Nunne being veyled and consecrated therunto by S. Aidan Bishop of Lindisferne And aâ—terward coÌ„ming into the Prouince of the Fastangles to the Citty called Calcaria and now Colchester in all sanctimony and holines of life she finally there ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and seauen D The one thirtith Day AT Eucsham in VVorcester-shire the festiuity of S. VVolstan Nephew to two Kinges of Mercia who being slaine in hatred of Christian Religion by one of his owne Kinsmen a great light from heauen was seene for thirty dayes togeather to descend and remayne ouer the place where he lay killed By this miraculous token his body being found out was first buryed in the Monastery of Rependowne now called Ripon in Yorkeshire and after when many miracles were wrought therat it was translated to the Abbey of Euesham which holy S. Egwyn Bishop of Worcester had founded not many yeares before and there with great solemnity and veneratioÌ„ placed in the Church of that Monastery wherat it pleased God in testimony of his innocency to shew wonderous things He was martyred vpon the vigill of Pentecost about the yeare of Christ eight hundred fourty and nyne THE MONETH OF IVNE E The first Day AT Stone in Staffordshire the Commemoration of the Saintes Rufin and Vlfade brothers martyrs soÌ„ns to VVulserus a PagaÌ„ King of the Mercians who for that they were made Christians and had receyued baptisme at the hands of S. Chad Bishop of Lichfield were both by their owne Father slayne in hatred therof as they were at prayer in S. Chads Oratory about the yeare or Christ six hundred threescore eight Their bodyes were by their mother Queene Ermenild afterward also a Saint conueyed to Stone and there kept with great veneration where also in tyme was erected a goodly Church togeather with a Priory and dedicated in their honour But the K. their Father soone after repeÌ„ting
Scotland contemned the vanities of the world in his youth and entring into a Monastery there tooke the Religious habit of S. Benedict In which kind of life he so excelled in all humility and perfection that his name was very famous throughout Scotland and Ireland euen vntill his dying day which happened full or sanctity of life and miracles about the yeare of Christ six hundred where also in ancient Catholicke tymes many Chappell 's and altars haue byn dedicated in his honour D The tweluth Day IN Ireland the Commemoration of S. Luane Abbot and Confessour who being borne in the same Iland of a noble pareÌ„tage became there first a monke of the Order of S. Benedict and afterward Abbot of the Monastery of Benchor in the same Kingdome where he was very famous for sanctity of life in the tyme of S. Malachy Bishop of Connerthen Primate of all Ireland with whome he liued many yeares ending his venerable dayes in a good old age about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and fourty and in the raigne of King Stephen of England E The thirteenth Day AT Canterbury the Translation of S. Mildred Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Merualdus King of the Mercians or middle Englishmen who contemning the vanities of this life became a religious woman in the I le of Thanet in Kent and afterward Abbesse of that Monastery in which kind of life she so excelled especially in humility that it pleased God to worke many miracles at her body after her death which being on this day translated to CaÌ„terbury by S. LaÌ„franke Archbishop of that Sea was togeather with the venerable body of S. Edburge most honourably placed there in the Church of S. Gregory in the yeare of Christ one thousand fouâ—score and fiue There was also a famous Monastery built in her honour in the Prouince of Kent besides many goodly Churches eâ—ected and dedicated in her name in diuers places of England Part of her Reliques were translated to Dauentry in Gelderland and there kept vntill these our dayes with great veneration of the people of Geldria She died about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and foure F The fourteenth Day AT Dauentry in Gelderland the festiuity of S. Marchebne Priest and Confessour who being an Englishman by birth and going ouer into the low-Countreyes as companion to S. Willebrord preached there the faith of Christ incessantly for more then threescore yeares togeather wherby he conuerted the greatest part of Frizeland and is called their Apostle And a ter infinite labours and toyles taken in that holy enterprize full of great sanctity and holmes of life and in a good old age he finally reposed in our Lord at a place in Transysleania to wit beyond the Riuer of Ysle called Oldseele about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred threescore and two His body was aâ—ter translated to Dauentry where the same was honoured and preserued euen vntill our dayes with great veneration of the Inhabitants G The fifteenth Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Translation of S. Swithin Bishop of the same Sea and Confessour whose life was so innocent and vertues so rare that it pleased God by him to worke many miracles both aliue and dead When he was ready to depart out of this world he commanded for humilityes sake his body to be buryed in the Church-yard wheron euery one might tread with their feet But afterward when many and dayly miracles were by his merits wrought at his graue and the concourse of people therto began to be great he was on this day taken vp and translated to a Church of his owne name erected in Winchester commonly called S. Swithins which now of late in hatred of his memory is by the Protestants named the Trinity This his translation happened about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred which day was afterward by commaundement kept holy throughout the Diocesse of VVinchester THE same day at Oldseele beyond the Riuer of Ysle in Gelderland the deposition of S. Plechelme Bishop and Confessour who borne in our Iland of Great Britany and going to Rome with S. VVero was ordayned Bishop of an old towne in ScotlaÌ„d named Candida-Casa now called VVhitherne in his returne homward preached the Christian faith to the Frisians where full of sanctity of life and miracles he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred thirty and two His body is yet preserued at the forsaid towne of Oldseele with great veneration of the people therabout THE same day also at Pollesbury in VVarwickeshire the deposition of S. Eadgith Queene of Northumberland and sister to King Ethelstane who was giuen in Matrimony to Sithricke Prince or the Northumbers a Pagan vpon condition he would become a Curistian Which he accepted of but soone after renouncing both his Queene faith ended his life in a most miserable sort And she setting aside the cares and troubles of this world became a Religious woman receyued the holy veyle of chastity in the Monastery of Polesbury aforsaid where in great sanctimony of life she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ 926. THE same day in like maÌ„ner at VVerdt in Cleeucland the passion of S. Harrucke Bishop and Martyr who being a Scottishman by birth and a monke of the Monastery of Amarbaricke in Scotland went ouer into the low Countreyes and Germany to propagate the Christian faith where being ordayned Bishop of VVerdt was at last put to death by the enemyes of Christ and so ended a glorious Martyrdome about the yeare of Christ eight hundred thirty and one MOreouer in Suetia the deposition of S. Dauid Confessour who being an EnglishmaÌ„ by birth an Abbot of the Venerable Order of Cluniacke went into Suetia to preach the faith of Christ to the infideâ—s of that CouÌ„try which he did for many yeares and after aboundant fruite reaped in that haruest by his holy labours and indeauours famous for sanctity of life he finally reâ—ed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one thousand and two A The sixteenth Day AT Salisbury in VVilâ—shire the Translation of S. Osmund Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose liâ—e and doctrine hath much illustrated as well the vniuersall as our Catholicke Church of England He was the first that compiled the SaruÌ„ Breutary and other Cerimonies of that Church which were afterward receyued and vsed throughout the whole Realme For which cause in ancient tymes the Catholicke Bishops of Salisbury obtayned the Title of the Popes Maister oâ— Cerimonyes and had their places alwayes assigned them in the Popes Chappell other soleÌ„nitâ—es at Rome according to that dignity His body was on this day solemnely translated to new Salisbury from a village a mile distant from the sâ—me now called old Salisbury where he died in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and ninteene and there placed in the great Minster or Cathedrall Church of
manner a learned Treatise of the same subiect as also another worke yet extant intituled De Loâ—is Sanctis and flourished about the yeare of Christ six hundred and seauenty A The third Day AT Fossis in the Territory of Namures the Translation of S. Foillan Bishop and Martyr Sonne to King Philtan of Ireland who going to Rome was there created Bishop by Pope Martin the first and sent thence to preach the Christian faith in France and Flanders which when he had done for many yeares with very great labour profit in that kind he was at length slayne togeather with three of his fellows at a place in Namures called Silua Carbonaria or Colliers-wood which thing being reueyled to his brother S. Vltan and S. Gertrude Abbesse of Niuell in Brabant his body was â—ought for and being found out was on this day afterward solemnly translated to the Monastery of Fossis and there is yet preserued with great veneration He suffered about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore B The fourth Day AT Durham in the Bishopricke the Translation of S. Cuthbert Bishop and Confessour who first leading a solitary life in the Iland of Farne now called Cochet became afterward a Monke and then Abbot of the Monastery of Mailros in Northumberland and last of all was promoted to the Bishopricke of Lindisferne the which he resigned after some yeares againe became an Eremite Whose great holines of life hath byn manifested by the wonderfull miracles wrought by him both aliue and dead He desecased in the yeare of Christ 687. His body being afterward on this day taken vp fouÌ„d altogeather whole and vncorrupt was with great soleÌ„nity traÌ„slated to the Cathedrall Church of Durhâ—m there kept with great veneration whither also many thousandes went on pilgrimage euen vntill the dayes of King Henry the eight THE same day at Treuers in the higher Germany the Passion of S. Marcellus Bishop and Martyr who being a noble Britan by byrth and gathering togeather the dispersed Christians in our Countrey that were conuerted to Christ by S. Ioseph of Arimathia and his fellowes in our Primitiue British Church did by his preaching and doctrine so mooue King Lucius that he sent forth with to Rome to Pope Eleutherius to treate about his Conuersion to Christian faith He afterward went ouer into Germany to preach in like manner the faith of Christ to that people where as he was executing the office of a good Pastour he was finally martyred at Treuers about the yeare of our Lord one hundred and fourscore was the first of our British Nation that suffered death for Christ out of the Iland of Great Britany C The fifth Day AT Alt-Munster in Germany the Commemoration of S. Altho Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of a noble parentage in that Kingdome went ouer into Germany in that Primitiue Church and there became Abbot of a new Monastery erected by S. Boniâ—ace an Englishman Archbishop of Mentz and Apostle of that Countrey Which Monastery was afterward of this mans name commonly called Altho-Monastery and now by continuance of tyme more abruptly is tearmed Alt-Munster He died in great sanctity and holines of life about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and threescore and was buryed in the same place D The sixt Day IN Cumberland the Commemoration of S. Bega Virgin who descended of a very noble parentage in Ireland and being instructed in the Christian faith came ouer into our Iland of Great-Britany and there led a most vertuous life in the forsaid Prouince of Cumberland where in very great sanctimony of life and working of miracles she finally gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse There hath byn in ancient Catholick tymes a goodly Church and Monastery erected in her honour in Cumberland where her body was wont to be kept with great reuerence and veneration of the Inhabitantes of that Shire which place in those dayes was a famous pilgrimage especially for the people of the Northerne partes of England E The seauenth Day AT Canterbury the Translation of S. Dunstan Bishop and Confessour who being first Abbot of Glastenbury then Bishop of VVorcester and after of London was last of all created Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of England whose most holy life and miracles are yet famous throughout the Christian world The Diuell appearing to him on a time in the liknesse of a yong beautifull woman tempting him to vncleanesse he tooke vp a paire of pinchers that then lay by him and caught the foule beast by the vpper lippe and so holding him fast and leading him vp and downe his chamber after diuers interrogatories draue him away He died in great sanctity of life in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fourscore and eight His body was on this day taken vp and with great solemnity set in a more eminent place of the Cathedrall Church of Canterbury wherat it hath pleased God to worke many miracles F The eight Day AT Lyming in Kent the Commemoration of Blessed Ethelburge Queene wife to holy Edwyn the first Christian King of Northumberland and daughter to K. Ethelâ—ert of Kent who after the martyrdome of her Lord and husband fled out of Northumberland and came backe to her Countrey of Kent where forsaking the pompe and vanities of the world she built herselfe a little Monastery at the forsaid towne of Lyming and there receyuing the holy veyle of Chastity was consecrated to God by the handes of S. Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury where in very great holines of life seruing her heauenly spouse she became mother to many holy Virgins and widdowes that did imitate her religious purpose and profession And so continuing in that godly vocation for many yeares full of all vertue and sanctimony of life she finally went to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourty and seauen G The ninth Day IN Scotland the deposition of S. Queran Abbot and Confessour who descended of a noble family in that Kingdome contemned the vanities of the world and entring into a Monastery became a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict afterward Abbot of the same whose singular life and miracles haue byn manifested aboundantly to the world both at home and abroad THE same day at Barking in Essex the depositioÌ„ of S. VVulshild Virgin Abbesse daughter to VVulshelme an Earle among the VVestsaxons who being borne after eighteene yeares barrenesse of her mother was in her very infancy consecrated to God and coÌ„mitted for her education to the Religious Virgins in the Nunry of VVinchester but comming to riper yeares she built herselfe a Monastery at Horton and was by holy K. Edgar confirmed Abbesse therof as also of the Monastery of Barking which the said King had newly reedined and repayred being sorely ruined through the incursions of the Danes from whence being soone after expulled with all her company by 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