234 FOREIGN NUNNERIES. [III was buried in the uncompleted church. The church afterwards could not be completed, and when her body was to be moved, it was found to be without any mark of decay or corruption. P 33 2 EADBALD Pagi 618 2—4. 640 10. P 633 Austrasia. Flor Vigorn app MHB. His wife Emma was dau of Theodebert king of 5 3 EARCONBERCTO p 89 1 5 he died 14 July 664. 6 IDOLA DESTRVI II 13 end. IEIVNIVM XL DIERVM p 63 1 29 seq. Theodore's penitential II 14 I (Haddan-Stubbs III 202) three fasts in the year the 40 10 days before Easter, the 40 days before Christmas, the 40 days after Pentecost. cf Lingard 1 101. 9 PVNITIONES baptism by force Baronius 632 3. EARCONGOTAE for her biography see Surius VII 57. FARA also called Burgundofara. Baronius 614 13. Pagi 614 15 35-37. 640 11. Mabillon ann Bened 1 304. 321. 343. 434. IN BRIGE cf p 171 18 Ingyruum. V 1 Inrhypum. V 2 (cf 6 end) a monastery called Inderauuda, id est In Silua Derorum. Stevenson Faremoustier-en-Brie, formerly a celebrated Benedictine nunnery Gallia Chr VIII 1700. (ibid VII 558 CALE, Chelles, about four 20 miles from Paris, a nunnery founded by Bathildis queen of Clovis II. ANDILEGVM ib XI 31. Mabillon ann Bened I 123. Andeley, an extinct nunnery near Rouen, founded by Clotilda wife of Clovis the Great)'. 17 FILIAS Lingard 1 193. 20 SVPRA P 31 1 15. NATVRALIS born to him, not adopted; so sometimes in Elizabethan English. See a good example of this use of natural in Timon of Athens IV 3 383 where Timon apostrophizing the gold says O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 'Twixt natural son and sire! 'Plessaeus hist eccl Meldensis 1 698. 24 AA SS July II 481' (Stevenson). 25 EARCONGOTAM AA SS III 387. Mabillon ann Bened 25 30 28 TRANSITV there is a great similarity between what is here 35 related of the death of Earcongota, and the popular stories concerning the assumption of the Virgin Mary see Cursor Mundi IV p 1152 seqq. P 34 4 OBITVM SVVM, QVEM REVELATIONE DIDICERAT IV 29 n. 6 ALBATORVM glossary. p 28 1 27 angelorum. p 1121 18 claro indutos habitu. 1 19 end, V 12. 8] VISIONS OF ANGELS. P 34 9 ILLO thither. 235 NOMISMA Lingard II 401 this shews that gold coins were known in France, but cannot prove that they were current in Kent'. 13 FRATRIBVS p 39 1 3. p 106 14 n. According to the con5 stitution of the early monastic establishments a certain number of monks were deputed to perform the ecclesiastical services of each monastery Mabillon ann Bened XI 10. 14 CONCENTVS ANGELORVM p 95 1 26 to p 97 1 9. Eddius c 63 at Wilfrid's funeral super domum quasi residentium auium cum ·10 sonitu iterum (cf c 62 at the hour of his passing) audierunt et statim iterum auolantium in caelum cum suaui modulamine pennarum. sapientes autem, qui illic aderant, dixerunt certe se scire angelorum choros cum Michaele uenisse ac animam sancti pontificis in paradisum deducere. Greg dial III 31 col 345d of Herminigild: coepit in 15 nocturno silentio psalmodiae cantus ad corpus eiusdem regis et martyris audiri, atque ideo ueraciter regis, quia et martyris. Ba ronius 649 81 the light, the apparition, the psalmody, on the revelation of Gregory's Moralia. cf the illuminated drawing of Edw confessor's death (Lives of Edw conf. ed by H R Luard, in chronicles and me20 morials), where angels receive the spirit as it issues from the mouth. Cuthbert (Beda uita Cuthb c 34 p 112 24 St) saw animam cuiusdam sancti manibus angelicis ad regni caelestis gaudia ferri. Such visions of angels and lights seen from heaven are frequent circumstances in the narratives of the deaths of saints. See the Sermon on the Nativity of 25 Holy Martyrs Aelfric's Homil II 546-548. It is promised to the Virgin Mary (Cursor Mundi IV 1156) that angels with songs shall come to fetch her to heaven. 30 35 Thou shalt be here but dayes thre, For aftir the us thinketh long. 17 EGRESSI DIGNOSCERE p 22 1 19 n. p 97 1 2 uocare uenerunt, VI (p 182 26 S) exierat uidere. LVCEM P 39 1 1 and 23. p 107 1 20. p 108 1 16. p 112 1 23. p 140 1 15. 1 33 (end) the tomb of a saint revealed by a light. IV 7 Beda uita Cuthb 4 § 7 Aedan's death revealed to Cuthbert by a light and by singing angels. Baronius 685 20. MHB 667 in loco uero quo Elfwaldus rex iustus interfectus est, caelitus lux emissa dicitur uideri a plurimis. 236 ODOUR OF SANCTITY. [III P 34 24 ECCLESIA BEATI STEPHANI Mabillon ann Bened I 305. 27 FLAGRANTIA this dissimilation (cf. mulberry, marble, purple, pilgrim) is consistently retained in ms. On the odour of sanctity' cf p 1101 17 n. quanta saepe flagrantia mirandi apparuerit odoris. Greg dial IV 37 four days after the burial of Theophanes, his wife determined 5 to change the marble laid on his tomb: quod uidelicet marmor corpori eius superpositum dum fuisset ablatum, tanta ex corpore ipsius fragrantia odoris emanauit, ac si ex putrescente carne illius pro uermibus aromata ferbuissent. Gregory examined the workmen in the presence of clergy, nobles and people: qui et eadem odoris 10 fragiantia miro modo se repletos fuisse testati sunt. ib. 4. Merulus a monk, devoted to tears and prayers and psalmody, saw in a vision a crown of white flowers descending from heaven on his head. Fourteen years after his death tanta.....de...sepulchro illius fragrantia suauitatis emanauit, ac si illic florum omnium fuissent odora- 15 menta congregata. Sometimes the fragrant odour is related to have been perceived at the time of death. Thus at the death of a certain Servulus it is related (Aelfric Hom II 98) "Then was the house filled with a wondrous odour so that all the corpsebearers were filled with the winsome fragrance and the odours ceased not in their nostrils till the 20 holy body was buried". Similarly at the death of the nun Romula (ibid 548). A like fragrance is said to have pervaded the whole island of Crowland after the death of St Guthlac Goodwin pp 86-90. 30 DE QVA DIXIMVS p 33 1 21. P 35 3 IN QVA SVVM CORPVS SEPELLIRI CVPIEBAT burial in churches 25 P 25 1 1 2 n. p 67 1 12. 11 20 p 102 1 S iuxta honorem uel regiis pueris uel innocentibus Christi congruum in ecclesia sepulti sunt. V 23. Greg dial IV 50-54. esp 51 a nun, chaste but garrulous, was buried in a church: the same night the verger saw in a vision her body sawn asunder before the altar, and the one half burnt, the other 30 unhurt. qua ex re aperte datur intellegi quia hi, quibus peccata dimissa non fuerint, ad euitandum iudicium sacris locis post mortem non ualeant adiuuari. CON 35 12 ITA INTEMERATVM CORPVS VT A CORRVPTIONE CVPISCENTIAE CARNALIS ERAT INMVNE p 129 1 4 n. The body of Furseus is also said to have been found uncorrupted four years after his death p 57 20. 14 DENVO LOTVM ATQVE ALIIS VESTIBVS INDVTVм p 130113 n. 16 NATALIS day of martyrdom. NONARVM 7th. 40 9] DEATH OF OSWALD. VIIII 237 SUALD reigned nine years, for in his reign was included the one year of his apostate predecessors. He was killed by the king of the Mercians in a battle at Maserfelth. The place where he died has 5 been made illustrious by miracles. The dust of the earth there, when mixed with water, has healed both men and beasts. The place has become so noted that by taking away the earth there has been made a hole as deep as a man is high. Beda gives two instances of cures. A traveller riding near the place found his horse suddenly taken very ill, 10 and expected it to die. But in its struggles it happened that the animal rolled on to the spot where Osuald had been killed, and it was at once restored to its wonted strength. The man journeying on, and deeply impressed with the sanctity of the spot, came to an inn, where the niece of the master was paralysed. He told of the wondrous cure of his horse, 15 and straightway they conveyed the sick girl thither and laid her down. She fell into a sleep and awoke quite restored, so as to be able to wash herself, dress her hair, and after that walk home with the friends who had brought her. 20 Alcuin sanct Ebor 312-335. P 35 20 NOVEM ANNIS Alcuin 499-505. ILLO 634 A D. 21 REGIS BRETTONVM Ceadualla p 191 19. APOSTASIA P 19 1 16 n. 22 SVPRA P 20 17. 30 35 25 ALIQVIS any. 27 PAGANA GENTE C 14 pr. 28 REGE Penda II 20. 29 PEREMTVS at Hatfield in Yorkshire 12 Oct 633 (11 20). See also Gough's Camden III 273. 30 MASERFELTH Smith mentions a place of this name in Lancashire near Winwick. Gibson fixes it at Oswestry (Oswaldestre) because this name has Oswald in it. Ingram suggests Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The place cannot be identified. ,,,, XXXVIII the Saxon version says he was killed in his thirtyseventh year. DIE QVINTO MENSIS AVGVSTI P 119 118-23. p 120 1 11. P 36 4 HOMINVM ET PECORVM the cattle are generally included in these accounts of miraculous cures. Thus Adamnan uita St Columbae II 4 some bread is given by the saint quo in aqua intincto homines ca conspersi et pecora celerem recuperabant salutem. 238 MIRACLES AT THE PLACE OF HIS DEATH. [III P 36 5 PVLVEREM 113. p 37 1 19. p 39 1 25 and 27. P 40 1 13-27. p 99 1 14 n. 1 18 (end) and 19 Germanus quenches a fire with dust from the place of Alban's martyrdom. Ruinart ind to Greg Tur 'puluis e SS sepulcris erasus 947. 386 et passim. secum defert Gregorius 1133'. Like miracle at the death of St Elphegus Higd Polychr vi 16. 6 AQVAM P 21 17 n. Greg Tur glor mart 1 6 (end) ‘quidam' brought me a very ancient silk pallula, in which he said that the cross I in my 'rusticity' thought the tale in had been wrapt at Jerusalem. P 37 I DVM = cum. 2 PARALYSIS Greg Tur glor mart 1 6 (end) ‘I gave part of the pallula (note on p 36 16) to an abbat; who returning after two years swore that 12 demoniacs (energumeni), three blind and two paralytic patients had been healed by it'. 5 ΙΟ 15 7 OBDORMIVIT PARVMPER a somewhat similar story is related in Aelfric hom II 32 of a girl cured of a quaking in her limbs at the shrine of St Stephen. "The quaking sister had gone from the steps where she stood to the holy martyr, and straightway as she touched the railing she lay as if she had been seized with sleep and afterwards rose up 20 hale'. AT X the same time a traveller, a Briton, came near the place where Osuald had been killed and saw the grass was greener than in other places, and concluded that some holy man had been slain there. 25 He gathered some of the dust and carried it with him in a cloth. On his way he came to a village where while he was entertained, he tied the cloth containing the dust to a post in the wall. The house of his entertainers happened to catch fire, yet though all else was consumed the post to which the cloth was hung was found untouched by the flames. Such 30 miracles made the place of Osuald's death famous, and many came thither and were healed. P 37 15 PRAEFATA PVGNA P 35 1 27-31. 28 CVLMEN DOMVS VIRGIS CONTEXTVM AC FOENO TECTVM P 48 1 16. p 69 1 1 n. uita Cuthb 5 § 9 Cuthbert pulled some hay from the roof of a deserted shepherd's cot and gave it to his horse; the horse then pulled down hay for itself, and with it a meal for his master, meat 35 |