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
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
Brittish bloud and disciple to S. Columbane the Great of Ireland was by him sent ouer into France there made Abbesse of a Monastery which he had built at Eureux where in great sanctimony of life she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six huÌ„dred ten S. Bede hath wrytteÌ„ her life at large wherin he recounteth many worthy and memorable actes of hers especially for the obseruation of Monasticall discipline wherin she excelled C The fourth Day IN Cornwall the Commemoration of S. Guier Priest and Confessour who leading an Eremiticall and seuere kind of life in that Prouince and being companion to S. Neoth by whose counsell the Vniuersity of Oxford was founded that liued in those partes with him in the tyme of King Alfred was very famous for sanctity of life and working of Miracles both aliue dead His name is yet very memorable and frequent among the Cornishmen where in times past haue byn many altars erected and dedicacated in his honour He died about the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and eleuen D The fifth Day IN Scotland the deposition of S. Tigernake Bishop and Confessour whose godly life and doctrine hath not only illustrated that Countrey where he was borne but his neighbour-Kingdomes also round about And therfore his memory not vnworthy to be recorded among the other Saints of our Iland that hath byn made worthy of so glorious a Patron He died in all sanctity holines of life about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and thirty and was buryed in Scotland THE same day in Suetia the Commemoration of S. Gotebald Bishop and Confessour who being an Englishman by birth went ouer into Norway and Sueueland and there propagated the Christian faith with aboundant fruite of his holy labours for many yeares and finally in great holines of life there rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one thousand and foure E The sixt Day IN Ireland the deposition of S. Celsus Confessour and Bishop of Connerthen in the same Kingdome whose godly life full of sanctity and miracles hath byn very famous in former ages both at home and abroad He was predecessour to S. Malachy in his Bishoppricke and died in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred twenty and eight THE same day at Hexam in Northumberland the Commemoration of S. Ethelwold King of the same Prouince and Martyr who being wickedly slayne in the Ciuill warres among his owne subiects and his body brought to the Church of Hexam it pleased God in signe of his innocency in that cause to worke many miracles therat which being seene and diligently examined the same was with great solemnity veneration honourably reconded in the said Church as beseemed so pretious a treasure He suffered about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred F The seauenth Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of S. Sigene Abbot and Confessour who descended of a very noble parentage in that Kingdome became a monke of the venerable Order of S. Benedict in a monastery of one of the Ilands of Orcades belonging to that Prouince wherof afterward himselfe was made Abbot In which office he so behaued himselfe in sanctity of life good learning and reformation of Monasticall discipline that his name was famous aswell throughout Scotland at home as in England Ireland and other Countreyes abroad He liued about the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore about which tyme also he reposed in our Lord. G The eight Day AT Glastenbury in Somersetshire the Commemoration of S. Duuianus Confessour scholler to S. Ioseph of Arimathia who being a noble man of Britany ioyned himselfe to S. Ioseph and lead a solitary life with him and his companions in the Iland of Auallonia now called Glastenbury which King Aruiragus of Briâ—any had graunted vnto them where being very famous for sanctity of life and miracles in that first Primitiue Church of our Countrey he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one hundred and eleuen His body was buryed at Glastenbury and there conserued with due veneration vntill the dayes of K. Henry the eight in whose raigne that Monastery deca 〈…〉 ed. He was very nobly borne and one of the first Christians of our Iland that exercised a solitary or Eremiticall life after the comming of S. Ioseph of Arimathia into Britany A The ninth Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of S. Frithstan Confessour Bishop of the same Sea who forsaking the burden of that dignity betooke himselfe to a solitary kind of life in a village neere to the said Citty of VVinchester In which he constantly perseuered in all sanctity and holinesse of life to his dying day which happened in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred thirty and three and was buryed at VVinchester where his body was wont to be kept in Catholicke tymes with great honour and veneration There is a story recorded how that S. Frithstane was wont euery day to say masse and office for the dead and one euening as he walked in the Church-yard reciting his said office when he came to Requiescant in Pace the voyces in the graues round about made answere aloud and said Amen B The tenth Day AT Paderborne in the higher Germany the deposition of S. Paternus Confessour who borne in Scotland of a worthy bloud despising all wordly things gate him ouer into Germany and there became a Monke of the Order of S. Benedict in a Monastery of the forsaid towne of Paderborne where by diuine prophesy he fortold the burning therof by causall fire wherin himselfe being in his Cell was also coÌ„sumed to 〈…〉 shes about the yeare of Christ one thousand fifty and eight His memory is very famous vntill this day both in Germany where he liued and in Scotland also where he was borne THE same day in Suetia the passion of S. Eschillus Bishop and Martyr who going out of England with S. Sigfrid and his Nephewes to preach the Christian faith to the Sueuians after he had laboured for many yeares incessantly in that kind and brought many thousands to the true worship of God was by the 〈…〉 redulous PagaÌ„ people of that couÌ„trey stoned to death as he was preaching the word of 〈…〉 e vpon Good Fryday And therby deserued to be crowned with Martyrdome vpon the same day that our Blessed Sauiour suffered for the Redemption of mankind This happened about the yeare of Christ one thousand and sixteene and in the raigne of King Edmund of England surnamed Iron-side C The eleuenth Day IN the I le of Crowland in Lincolnshire the deposition of S. Guthlacke Confessour and Eremite who being in his youth a souldiour and of good parentage became weary of the world and retyred himselfe to the Monastery of Ripendowne now called Rippon in Yorkshire where be tooke first the habit of a monke shortly after became an Eremite in
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
with a double office throughout our whole Realme in former Catholicke tymes according to the vse of Sarum THE same day at VVimborne in Dorsetshire the Passion of S. Etheldred King of the VVestsaxons and Martyr who in the Danish persecution was slayne by the Tyrannicall Pagans in hatred of Christian Religion at an old Towne in the west part of England called VVhittingham in the yeare of Christ eight hundred threescore and twelue His body was brought to the Monastery of VVimborne and there entombed with great veneration as is yet to be seene by his Epitaph recorded by our English Historiographers thus In hoc loco requiesâ—it corpus S. Etheldredi Regis VVestsaxonum Martyris qui anno Domini octingentesimo septuagesimo secundo vigesimo tertio die Aprilis per manus Dacorum Paganorum occubuit B The foure twentith Day AT Canterbury the depositioÌ„ of S. Mellitus Bishop Confessour who being sent into England by S. Gregory the Great with three other Copanions to assist S. Augustine in the haruest of soules was shortly after his comming first created Bishop of London and afterwards gouerned the Sea of Canterbury where in all venerable sanctity of life and miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred twenty and foure and was buryed neere to his predecessours S. Augustine and S. Laurence in the North porch of his Cathedrall Church of Canterbury THE same day in the Monastery of S. Columbe in Scotland the deposition of S. Egbert Abbot and Confessour who descended of a noble British linnage sent S. VVillebrord and his fellowes into Flanders and Germany to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith as also gaue instructions to the monkes of Scotland about the obseruation of the feast of Easter And finally in great sanctity of life and miracles reposed happily in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred twenty and nyne ALso the same day at S. Iâ—es in HuÌ„tingtonshire the inueÌ„tioÌ„ of the venerable body of S. Iuo Bishop Confessour who comming out of Persia into EnglaÌ„d there preached the Christian faith dying about the yeare of Christ six hundred was afterward on this day found out and taken vp by Alwyn Earle of the Eastangles and most honourably and with great veneration entombed and placed in the Abbey of Ramsey in the yeare of Christ one thousand and one and raigne of King Ethelred of England MOreour the same day at Canterbury the TraÌ„slatioÌ„ of S. VVilfrid Bishop of Yorke and Confessour whose body in the second Danish persecution was on this day translated to Canterbury from Rippon in Yorkeshire where he was first buryed by S. Odo Archbishop of that Sea and there with great solomnity veneration placed in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred fifty and seauen wherat it pleased God to worke miracles His principall festiuity is celebrated in our English Catholicke Church vpon the tweluth day of October C The fiue twentith Day AT VVancourt in the Territory of Arras in the lower Germany the Commemoration of S. Obodius Confessour and Eremite who descended of a very noble parentage in Ireland and contemning the vanityes of the world in his youth went ouer into the Low-Countreyes there lead a solitary and Eremiticall kind of life in the aforsaid Territory of Arras to the great edification of the Inhabitants of that place where finally in great sanctity and holines of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred whose body is yet coÌ„serued in the said towne of VVancourt with great honour and veneration of the people dwelling therabout as Patron of that Village D The six and twentith Day IN Scotland the Commemoration of the Saints Modane and Midane Brothers and Confessours who borne in the same Kingdome and there descended of a worthy family contemned the vanityes of the world and became Religious monkes of the venerable Order of S. Benedict in their owne Countrey where in all kind of good learning vertue and sanctity of life they finally in a good old age reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and foure Their memory hath in former Catholicke tymes byn famous throughout Scotland and Ireland where many aultars and Oratories haue byn dedicated in their honour as the ancient Records of those Kingdomes do declare E The seauen twentith Day AT Heydentine-Monastery in the higher Germany the deposition of S. Walburge Virgin and Abbesse daughter to S. Richard King of England who after the death of her Father being sent for by S. Boniface Archbishop of Mentz and her vncle was by him made Abbesse of the forsaid Monastery of Heydentine where in very great sactity working of miracles she gaue vp her soule to her heaueÌ„ly spouse about the yeare of Christ seaueÌ„ huÌ„dred threscore sixteene Her body was afterward translated to Eyst and there placed in the Cathedrall Church of that Citty neere to the venerable body of S. VVillebald her owne brother out of which there distilleth vntill this day a most sweet and pretious oyle very soueraigne for many diseases Ouer whose tombe is engrauen in marble this short Epitaph Filia Regis erat sed egenam se faciebat Diues vt Christo regnaret semper in ipso The feast of this her Translation is celebrated in Germany vpon the first of May with great solemnity and deuotion of the people of Eyst She was canonized for a Saint by Pope Adrian the second F The eight twentith Day AT VVerdt in Cleeueland the Commemoration of S. Kortill Bishop and Martyr who borne of a noble parentage in Scotland became first a monke in that Kingdome of the venerable Order of S. Benedict in an ancieÌ„t Monastery there called Amarbaricke wherof he being soone after made Abbot went ouer into the Lower Germany and Saxony to propagate the Christian faith newly planted in those partes and being there ordayned Bishop of VVerdt was a little after in hatred of the same Christian faith slayne by the incredulous and barbarous Saxons about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and twenty His body was buryed at VVerdt aforsaid and there kept in former tymes with great veneration G The nine twentith Day IN Northwales the Commemoration of S. Senan Confessour who descended of an ancient and noble British bloud contemned the vanities of the world and became an Eremite leading a solitary and seuere kind of life in the North of VVales neere to the Teritorry of S. Wenefrides Father by whome S. Wenefride her selfe was often visited and after her death lay many yeares buried neere to his body vntill her translation to Shrewsbury He liued in great sanctity and fame of miracles in the yeare of Christ six hundred and threescore about which tyme also he happily reposed in our Lord. His memory hath in former Catholicke tymes byn very famous in our Iland of Great-Britany but especially
and was buryed in the same place C The thirteenth Day IN North VVales the Commemoration of S. Elerius Abbot and Confessour who borne of a noble British parentage and setting aside the vayne pleasures of the world built with the goods of his owne inheritance a Monastery in the North-west part of our Iland now called North-wales where he gathering togeather many deuout persons lead a Monasticall life directing them in all kind of vertue and discipline vntill his dying day He liued in the tyme of S. VVenefrid about the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and foure of whome she receyued the holy veyle of Chastity and was ordayned Abbesse of a Monastery which S. Beno her maister and tutour had erected in her Fathers territory as also wrote the whole story of her life which is yet extant in wrytteÌ„-hand to be read in diuers libraryes of England The bone of one of his armes is yet in the custody of a Catholicke Gentleman of our Countrey who preserueth the same with great deuotion and veneration as beseemeth so pretious a Relique D The fourteenth Day IN Scotland the Translation of S. Brandan Abbot Confessour borne in the same Kingdome whose godly life and doctrine togeather with his manifold miracles are yet famous throughout the ChristiaÌ„ world especially in our Iland of Great-Britany His principall festiuity in our Catholicke Church of England is celebrated vpon the sixteenth day of May where also we haue made mention of him There was a goodly Church as also a towne builded in his honour in one of the Ilands of Orcades which vntill this day is commonly called by the name of S. Brandans He died about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and seauenty E The fifteenth Day AT VVilton in VViltshire the deposition of S. Eadburge Virgin daughter to King Edward the elder who refusing all worldly honours and preferments tooke a Religious habit in the Monastery of VVilton and became a mirrour and rare example to the Nobility of England where she so excelled in all manner of vertue but especially humility that she euer thought herselfe the most contemptiblest of all the Monastery Which thing how acceptable it was to God it pleased him to manifest to the world by the manifold miracles he wrought by her both aliue dead She desceased about the yeare of Christ nyne hundred and fourteene and was buryed at Wilton THE same day at Huis in the Diocesse of L 〈…〉 ge the Translation of S. Menigold Martyr who borne in England of a great parentage became first a Captaine in the French and German warres and after an Eremâ—te vnto whome 〈◊〉 the Emperour gaue a â—â—ttle Territory 〈◊〉 to the riuer 〈…〉 oâ— Mosa where â—e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Oratory for â—â—s priuate deuotio 〈…〉 as he was one day going to Church was â—â—aâ—â—e by ceâ—tain◠〈◊〉 〈…〉 diers in hatred of his sancâ—â—ty about 〈◊〉 eare of Christ â—â—ne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 body was afterward on this day with great solemnity tranâ—â—ated to Huis where the same is yet kept with due honour veneration oâ— the Inhabitants THE same day also in little Britany the deposition of S. Maine Abbot and Confeuour who borne in our Iland of Great Britany and kinsma to S. Sampâ—on went ouer with him into little Britany to preach the Christian saith where he fist lead a Monasticall life at Dole vnder the forsaid S. SaÌ„pson and afterward being made Abbot of a Monastery dedicated to S. Iohn Baptist in the same Countrey after many yeare of labour and toyle taken in the seruice of Christ and conuersion of many soules to him famous for miracles he finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and nynty His body was buryed in the same Monastery which at this day of his name is commonly called S. Maines and there is kept with great honour and veneration F The sixteenth Day AT Chichester in Sussex the Translation of S. Richard Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who hauing studied seaue yeares in the Vniuersity of Bologna in Italy and returning home was first made Chancelour of Oxford and theÌ„ Bishop of Chichester which Sea when he had gouerned for nyne yeares in great sanctity holinesse of life he died at Douer in Kent in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and three His body being brought to Chichester was afterward on this day taken vp and put into a goodly siluer shrine and translated to a more eminent place of that Cathedrall Church wherat so many miracles were dayly wrought that infinite people made concourse thither from all partes of EnglaÌ„d This Translation was made in the yeare one thousand two hundred threescore and sixteene THE same day at Hereford the passion of S. Leofgar Bishop and Martyr who being Chaplyn to Duke Harold suâ—ceeded Ethelstane in that Sea where in all kind of vertue and good workes exercising his Pastorall functioÌ„ he was by K. Griffin of VVales that violently and vniustly assaulted that Citty slayne togeather with seauen of his Chanons that denied him entrance into the Church which when the said Griffin had spoyled robbed of all the reliques iewels and other ornaments that were portable he lastly fired both it and the whole Citty in the yeare of Christ one thousand fifty and six G The seauenteenth Day AT Hecknam in Normandy the deposition of S. Botulph Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland of a noble parentage and going ouer into France became there a monke and afterward was made the first Abbot of a new Monastery called Hecknam in Normandy which himselfe had caused to be built at his owne charges where in great sanctity of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and foure There is yet remayning a faire parish Church dedicated in his honour without Aldgate in the Citty of London besides many other ancient monumeÌ„ts of him in the Realme of England And among the rest there was a goodly ancient Church Monastery of Blackefriers erected in his honour in Lincolnshire neere to the sea side which in processe of tyme growing to a fayre Market-towne was called therof Botulphs-towne and now by the corruption of our language is vulgarly knowne by the name of Boston which said Church and Monastery were both in the raigne of King Edward the first consumed by fire in the yeare one thousand two hundred fourscore and seauen A The eighteenth Day IN Scotland the CoÌ„memoratioÌ„ of S. Dunstan Abbot Confessour borne in that Kingdome and descended there of a great parentage who contemning the vanities of the world in the flower of his youth tooke a Religious habit and became first a monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict in Scotland and afterward was ordained Abbot of the whole Monastery where in great sanctity of life famous for his learning and workes of piety in a good old age finally rested in our Lord