his body lay was not so much as touched with the flame E The eight Day AT Yorke the deposition of S. VVilliam Confessour and Bishop of that Sea kinsman to Stephen King of England who by false slaunders being accused to Pope Eugenius the third was deposed froÌ„ his Bishopricke and one Murdacke set vp in his place but after againe restored by Pope Anastasius the fourth wherin with great signes of sanctity and innocency of life togeather with many miracles he finally ended his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred fifty and foure and was buryed at Yorke It is recorded by Polidor Virgil that when he was restored againe to his Bishopricke and comming towards Yorke the people flocked in so great number to congratulate and welcome his returne that passing ouer the Riuer beyond Pont-fract the throng and presse was so great that the bridge being but of wood brake euen â—ust as the Bâ—shop was ouer and threw all the rest into the water which when the holy man saw he fell downe vpon his knees and besought our Lord to saue them Whose prayers were soone heard For though the streame was very strong and violent yet were they euery one preserued from drowning THE same day in the Diocesse of Metz in the higâ—er Germany the deposition of S. Distoode Bishop CoÌ„fessour who borne in Ireland and a monke of the Order of S. Benedict was ordayned Bishop of Dullyn in the same Kingdome but going ouer into Germany to preach the Christian faith he resigned that dignity and became Abbot of a Monastery there which vntill this day is called of his name S. Disibodes in the forsaid Diocesse of Mentz where in great sanctity of life and Miracles he ended his blessed daâ—es about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred F The ninth Day IN Scotland the deposition of S. Columbe Abbot and Confessour who borne in Ireland and descended of a noble parentage forsooke the world and all other eartâ—â—y preferments and became a monke in one of the ilands of Orcades called 〈…〉 oy in a Monastery there of the Order of S. Benedict wherof at last he being made abbot was so famous for sanctity and holines of life that euen vntill this day his memory is fresh to the Christian world especially in the Kingdomes of England Scotland Ireland where there be many Churchs yet remayning dedicated in his honour He desceased about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred fourscore and sixteene whose body was afterward translâ—ted into Ireland to the towne of Dune in the Prouince of Vlster and there with great solemnity and veneration interred togeather with the sacred reliques of S. Patricke S. Brigit He by his preaching conuerted to the faith of Christ the Pictes that inhabited Scotland and is called their Apostle working very many miracles among them to his dying day G The tenth Day AT S. EdmuÌ„dsbury in Sussâ—lke the TranslatioÌ„ of S. EdmuÌ„d King of the EastaÌ„gles martyr who in the Danish incursions vnder the Captains Hinguar Hubba being first whipped and then bound to tree and shot full of shaftes was finally beheaded All which torments he most constantly indured euer calling vpon the name of Iesus vntill he had finished his Martyrdome which was in the yeare of Christ eight huÌ„dred threescore and ten His principall festiuity is celebrated in our Catholicke Church of England vpon the twentith of Nouember but his body being taken vp afterward on this day was with great solemnity translated from Hexam in Northumberland where he was martyred and placed in a goodly shrine richly adorned with iewells and pretious stones in a Church erected in his honour in Suffolke which of his name was euer since called S. EdmuÌ„dsbury wherat it is recorded many miracles haue byn wrought And after this againe in the yeare one thousand ten the Danes inuading the Prouince of the EastaÌ„gles Alwyn the Bishop of that Diocesse brought the body of S. EdmuÌ„d from Bury aforsaid to London at the comming wherof in at Criplegate many miracles were wrought where for the space of three yeares it remayned in the Parish Church of S. Gregory neere vnto S. Paules and then was translated the second tyme to Bury in the yeare of Christ one thousand and thirteene THE same day in Scotland the festiuity of S. Margaret Queene wife to holy Malcome King of that nation daughter to Prince Edward surnamed the Out-law Sonne of Edmund Ironside King of England whose godly life and vertues especially in deuotion and liberall almes to the poore are yet famous both at home and abroad She died in great sanctimony of life and miracles about the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and twelue vpon the sixteenth of Nouember though her principall festiuity be celebrated vpon this day both in England and Scotland THE same day also at Rochester in Kent the deposition of S. Ithimar Bishop and Confessour who being a man of excellent learning and wisdome succeeded S. Paulinus in that Sea being consecrated therto by Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury which when he had gouerned most worthily for 17. yeares togeather in great sanctity and holines of life he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred threscore and eleuen and was buried in S. Andrewes Church at Rochester A The eleuenth Day AT Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Commemoration of S. Edilwald Priest Confessour who borne in our Iland of a noble parentage succeeded S. Cuthlert for twelue yeares togeather in leading an Eremiticall life in the Iland of Farne commonly called Holy Iland He was indued with so rare singular vertues that his very name was famous in those dayes throughout England Scotland S. Bede recounteth that a certaine skynne wherwith S. Edil 〈…〉 ald had stopped a hole in his Oratory did miracles after his death as also how by his prayers he ceased a storme or teÌ„pes that arose on the sea when certayne of his frieÌ„ds that came to visit him in the Iland returned homeward which happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourscore and nynteene about which tyme also he died was buryed in S. Peters Church at Lindisserne in the raygne of King Elfride of Northumberland B The tweluth Day AT Bâ—schopssen in the higher Germany the Commemoration of S. Agatha Virgin who being an English woman by birth and leading a religious life in the Monastery of VVimborne in Dorcetshire went ouer into Germany with S. Lioba S. Te 〈…〉 and others whome S. Bonisace an Englishman in like manner and 〈…〉 bishop of Mentz had sent for into those partes to be Directrices in Monasticall discipline of certaine Nunryes which he there had newly founded where vnder the forsaid Lioba that was constituted Abbesse of the fornamed Monastery of Bischopssen she liued died in great sanctimony and holinesse of life about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fifty and seauen
meate that was therin saying They had more need therof then himselfe The Bishop sitting by and delighted with such rare piety in a King tooke him by the right hand and said This hand I pray God may neuer consume And so saith S. Bede it fell out for that his arme and hand being cut of at his death remayned till his dayes whole and incorrupt being kept in a siluer case in S. Peters Church at Bambrough He finished the Cathedrall Church of S. Peter at Torke which was before begun by his predecessour King Edwyn His body was first buryed at Peterburrow and part therof traÌ„slated afterward to VVinockes-Berghen in Flanders where the same was preserued with great Veneration A The sixt Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the depositioÌ„ of Blessed Henry Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being a Frenchman by birth and brother to King Stephen of England became first a monke of the Order of S. Benedict and after Abbot of Glastenbury and last of all Bishop of VVinchester and Legat Apostolicall of England In which dignity he behaued himself with so great humility and loue of the common people for more then fourty yeares togeather that his name was famous throughout all England France He died in great sanctity of life and spirit of Prophesy in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred seauenty and one about foure monethes before the Martyrdome of S. Thomas of Canterbury THE same day at â—one in France the Commemoration of S. Alexander Confessour who descended of the bloud-Royall of Scotland stole secretly thence for the loue of Christ in base attyre and went into France where he became a Lay-brother in a Monastery of Cistercian monkes at Fone labouring in the basest offices of the house vnknowne till his dying day Which being then reueyled to the Prior of the Monastery vpon obedience it pleased God to testify his worthines by a Miracle after his death which was thus A Monke of the same Monastery that had a sore vlcer in his brest and now growne to a fistula came to the said Alexanders tombe and there prayed Vnto whome AlexaÌ„der appearing brighter then the sunne with two Crownes one on his head and another in his hand the Monke demaunded what that double Crowne meant He answered and said The Crowne in his hand is for the temporall Crowne which I forsooke for Christes loue for he should haue byn King of Scotland being next heyre thervnto by succession as the Story relateth The other on my head is that which I haue receyued common with other Saintes And that yow may be assured of the verity of this vision you shal now be cured of your infirmity And hauing thus spoken and the other immediatly healed he vanished away He died about the yeare of Christ one thousand and two hundred B The seauenth Day AT VVestminster by London the Commemoration of S. Maude Queene daughter to S. Margaret and holy King Malcolme of Scotland wife to K. Henry the first of England whose admirable and rare vertues togeather with her singular exemplar life hath byn a patterne euer synce to all Princesses in Europe especially her exceeding Charity towards the poore whome she disdayned not though neuer so foule leapers but rather imbraced them with all delight yea washed their soares and vlcers neuer so loathsome and filthy For whome she built also a goodly hospitall in the suburbes of London called S. Gâ—les as also founded the Priory of Christes-Church within Ald-gate of the same Citty Her body was with all veneration buryed at VVestminster in the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and eighteene which yeare she desceased In whose praise these distiches following were composed Prosper a non laetam secere non aspera tristem Aspera risus ei prospera terror erant Non decor essecit fragâ—lem non Sceptra superbam Sola potens humilis sola pudica decens She was in her tender yeares brought vp in the Monasteries of Religious womeÌ„ at VVinchester and Rumsey in all exercise of vertue and learning She built a faire stone-bridge ouer the riuer of Lue at Stratford-vpon-Bow as also gaue diuers goodly mannours and lands to the Abbey of Barking in Essex for mayntayning of the same C The eight Day AT Glastenbury-Abbey in Somersetshire the Commemoration of S. Fagane Confessour and Scholler to S. Ioseph of Arimathia with whome when he had led a solitary life for many yeares in the Iland of Auallonia now called Glastenbury and being by S. Ioseph throughly instructed in the Christian â—aith and other vertues became himselfe a preacher therof and S. Iosephs successour in his Oratory where the â—amous Monastery of Glastenbury was afterward built Where also in great sanctity holines of life he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one hundred and twelue and was one of the first Confessours of our British Nation D The ninth Day AT Ely in Cambridgshire the deposition of S. Hugh Bishop and Confessour who being first a Monke and then Abbot of the Monastery of S. Edmundsbury in Suffolke was thence promoted to the Bishopricke of Ely where in all kind of most commendable vertues especially in humility and abstinence hauing gouerned that Sea fiue and tweÌ„ty years he happily ended his venerable dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and foure His body was very honourably interred in the Cathedrall Church of Fly within the Chancell which himselfe had newly built from the ground consecrating the same in presence of King Henry the third and his sonne Prince Edward in the yeare 1235. and was there kept vntill our dayes with great honour and veneration of the people He also built the Bishops Pallace at Ely besydes many other publicke works of Charity which he perfourmed whilst he liued E The tenth Day AT Lesmor in Ireland the Commemoration of S. Malcus Bishop and Confessour who borne in England and a Monke of the Monastery of VVinchester in Hampshire and of a most vertuous conuersatioÌ„ was elected consecrated Bishop of Lesmor in Ireland In which Pastorall office in great sanctity of life working of Miracles he finally ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred twenty fiue He is also much praised by S. Bernard that liued at the same tyme who wryting the life of S. Malachy Bishop and Primate of Ireland among other thinges he saith of S. Malcus That the wisdome of God was in him c. F The eleuenth Day AT Chichester in Sussex the Commemoration of Bl. Gilbert Confessour Bishop of the same Sea whose integrity of life and vertuous conuersation hath made him famous to posterity He was a Father of the fatherlesse saith the Story of his life a comforter of mourners a defender of widdowes a relieuer of the poore a helper of the distressed and a diligent visitour of the sicke And thus heaping vp heauenly
Bishop Confessour who descended of the bloud-roall of Scotland and Kinsman to King Fugenius the fourth of that Name despised â—or the loue of God aâ—l worâ—dly preferments and went ouer into the lower Germany to preach the Christian faith where when he had reduced many thousands to Christes flocke replenished with sanctity oâ— life he ended his blessed dayes in a venerable old age about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourty His body is kept vntill this day in a Village called Albâ—niacke in the Diocesse of Arras where there is a goodly Priorâ— of Chanous-Regular erectd in his name commonâ— called the Priory of S. Kilian Thâ—s man is different from the other S. Kilian of the same Name mentioned vpon the eight of Iuly who was of the Irish Nation and a Martyr C The fourteenth Day AT London the Translation of S. Erconwald Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea Sonne to Offa King of the Eastsaxons whose fame of sancâ—ity and holines of life togeather with working of miraclâ—s hath byn notorious throughout Christendome but especially in England He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and fifteene and was buryed at London in S. Paules Church but afterward taken vp on this day and transâ—ated to a more eminent place oâ— the same Church in the yeare of Christ 1148. At whose body it is recorded many mâ—racles to haue byn wrought THE same day at Ewe in Normandy the deposition of S. Laurence Bishop and Confessour who being first a Monke and then Abbot of Glindalacke in Ireland was la 〈…〉 y ordayned Bishop oâ— Dublyn in the same Kingdome And thence going ouer into Normandy in great holines of life and miracles ended his blessed dayes He was aâ—terward canonized for a Saint by Pope Honorius the third in the yeare of Christ one thousand three hundred and six His body still remayneth at Ewe aâ—orsaid where it is kept with due veneration of the Inhabitants of that place ALso the same day in Bardsey-Iland in North-wales the deposition oâ— S. Dâ—â—ritius Confessour Archbishop oâ— Carleon vpon Vske Primate of the old Britans of VVales who resigning his Sea to S. Dauid King Arthurs vncle became an Ermite in the wild Mountaynes of North-wales where in very great austerity of life full of miracles in a venerable old age he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred twenty and two and was buryed in the aâ—orsaid Iland of Bardsey D The fifteenth Day AT Sainctes in France the Deposition of S. Macloue Bishop and Confessour who being descended of a noble British bloud MoÌ„ke of the Monastery ot Bangor in Caerneruanshire of VVales was thence promoted to the Bishopricke of Althene in little Britany now called of his name in that vulgar language San-Macloue and consecrated therto by Leontius Bishop or Sainctes which Sea when he had gouerned most worthily for many yeares in all sanctity of life and laudable vertues comming to Sainctes aforsaid in a good old age gaue vp his soule to rest about the yeare of Christ 〈…〉 e huÌ„dred threescore and foure His Reliques were afterward translated to the Monastery of Gemblacum where the same are yet preserued with great honour and Veneration for the manifold miracles that in tymes past haue byn wrought therat E The sixteenth Day AT Pontoyse in France the Deposition of S. Edmund Bishop and Confessour who being somtyme Treasurer of the Church of Salisbury was ordayned Archbishop of Canterbery which Sea when he had gouerned for six yeares in all godly manner being many wayes 〈…〉 red by King Henry the third and 〈◊〉 Otho he resigned the same went 〈◊〉 into France and liued in voluntary banishment spending the rest of his dayes in continuall prayer and meditation in a Monastery of Chanons-Regular at Sorson where in very great sanctity of life he departed this world in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred and fourty His body was brought with all solemnity to P 〈…〉 yse where the same is kept with great honour and Veneration vntill this day He was canonized for a Saint by Pope Innocentius the fourth six yeares after his death This day was afterward commaunded to be kept holy in his memory throughout England King Lewes of France caused his body to be translated to a more honourable place of the Church in Pontoyse and bestowed theron a sumptuous shryne of siluer guilt richly adorned with many precious stones THE same day in Scotland the deposition of S. Margaret Queene wife to holy King Malcolme the third of that Name and daughter to Prince Edward of England surnamed the Out-law whose wonderfull life and vertues especially in deuotion and liberall almes to the poore are famous to posterity Her principall festiuity is celebrated vpon the tenth of Iune though she died on this day in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and twelue and in the raigne of K. VVilliam Rusus of England F The seauenteenth Day AT Lincolne the deposition of S. Hugh Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who borne in Burgundy was sent for into England by King Henry the second and first made Prior of the Charterhouse-Monks at VVittam in Somersetshire and thence elected and ordayned Bishop of Lincolne In which function he so excelled in all kind of vertue and holines of life that his merits deserued to haue the same manifested to the world by the wonderfull miracles wrought at his body He newly built the Cathedrall Church of Lincolne from the foundations And when he had most laudably gouerned his flocke for fourteene yeares full of venerable old age he gaue vp his soule to rest at London in the yeare of Christ one thousand and two hundred His body was presently brought to Lincolne at what tyme there happened to be present King Iohn of England and VVilliam King of Scots with very many of the Nobility of both Realmes The two Kinges for the great reuerence they had vnto his holines bare-headed carried his body from the gates of the Citty vnto the Church where the same being most solemnly receyued by the Prelates Clergy was buryed behind the high Altar neere vnto the Chappell of S. Iohn Baptist. He was afterward canonized for a Saint by Pope Honorius the third in the yeare of Christ 1220. THE same day at Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Deposition of S. Hilda Virgin and Abbesse descended of the bloud royall of the Kinges of that Prouince who forsaking the vanityes of the world became a Religious woman first in a little Nunry neere to the riuer of VVire and then Abbesse of the Monastery of Hartsey now called VVhitby in Yorkeshire afterward of Strenshalt where in very great sanctity of life she ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six huÌ„dred fourscore Her feast is in many places obserued vpon the fifteenth of December where also we haue againe made mention of her G The
His feast is very soleÌ„nely celebrated with Octaues at Chure aforsaid as is to be seene in the Breuiary of that Diocesse wherin the whole story of his liâ—e is recounted at large THE same day at Dorcester in Dorcetshire the deposition of S. Birine Confessour and first Bishop of that Prouince who conuerted the VVestsaxons to the faith of Christ togeather with their King Kinegilsus and so became their Apostle He died in the yeare of Christ six hundred and fifty and was buryed at the forsaid towne of Dorcester but afterward translated to VVinchester by S. Hedde Bishop of that Citty and there with great solemnity and veneration being placed in the Cathedrall Church of S. Peter and S. Paul deserued to be honoured with this Epigram of an ancient Poet that wrote his life in verse Dignior attolli quà m sit Tyrinthius heros Quà m sit Alexander Macedo Tyrin hius hostes Vicit Alexander mundum Birinus verumque Nec tantùm vicit mundum Birinus hostem Sed sese bello vincens victus eodem IN like manner the same day in the Territory of Liege in the Lower Germany the deposition of S. Eloquius Priest Confessour who borne in Ireland went ouer the sea with diuers other Companions to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith to the Netherlanders where after much fruite reapt in great sanctity of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty one whose body was afterward translated to the Towne of VValciodore and there is kept with great veneration as Patrone of that place B The fourth Day AT Salisbury in VViltshire the deposition of S. Osmund Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being a Norman of noble birth came into England with King VVilliam the CoÌ„querour by whome he was first made Chancellour of the Realme and Earle of Dorset and afterward for that he was a most vertuous and learned man he was elected Bishop of Salisbury which Church being begon by his Predecessour he finished adding therto a goodly Library which he furnished also with many excellent bookes And when he had most laudably gouerned his flocke for sixteene yeares in great sanctity and holines of life he happily reposed in our Lord in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and nynteene and was buryed in his owne Cathedrall Church of Salisbury at whose body it pleased God to worke miracles He was canonized for a Saint by Pope Calixtus the third two hundred and fifty yeares after his death THE same day at Triuis in the Territory of Chure in the Prouince of Heluetia in Germany the festiuity of S. Emerita Virgin Martyr sister to King Lucius of Britany who going into Germany with her said brother was by the pagaÌ„ people of that CouÌ„trey for the confession of Christian saith put to death ending her glorious martyrdome by fire about the yeare of Christ one hundred fourscore and thirteene The whole story of her life is set forth at large in the Breuiary of the Diocesse of Chure aforsaid in her Office on this day C The fifth Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of S. Christine Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Prince Edward surnamed the Out-law and sister to the famous S. Margaret of Scotland who togeather with her mother Agatha entred into the Monastery of VVinchester and there became a Religious woman first and afterward Abbesse of the whole house In which dignity she perseuering in all kind of exemplar sanctimony of life and Monasticall discipline gaue vp her soule at last to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ one thousand and fourscore and in the raigne of King VVilliam the Conquerour D The sixt Day IN Ireland the Commemoration of S. Congellus Abbot and Confessour who being a most venerable Monke of the Order of S. Benedict and liuing with S. Malachias at that tyme Bishop of Connerthen in Ireland was by him ordayned Abbot of an ancient Monastery neere to the forsaid Bishops Sea in the same Kingdome where in very great sanctity of life miracles he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred and fourty THE same day at Cullen in Germany the Commemoration of S. Florentina Virgin and Martyr who being one of the number of the eleuen thousand holy British Virgins martyred with S. Vrsula was for defence of her Chastity there put to death with the rest of her fellowes about the yeare of Christ three hundred fourscore and three herselfe afterward miraculously reueyling her name E The seauenth Day AT Durham in the Bishopricke the CoÌ„memoration of S. Odwald Abbot and CoÌ„fessour who of a Monke of wonderfull Innocency and godly conuersation was elected Abbot of the monastery of Lindisserne in the Kingdome of the Northumbers where in ad kind of holines of life and Monasticall discipline full of miracles he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and six and was afterward buryed at Durham aforsaid THE same day in Scotland the Commemoration of S. Gallanus Monke and Confessour who borne in Ireland and desceÌ„ded of a noble bloud in that Kingdome came ouer into Scotland with S. Columbe the Great whose senoller and disciple he was where teaching preaching the Christian faith to the Pictes that in those dayes inhabited Scotland famous for sanctity of life and miracles he departed this world about the yeare of Christ fiue hundred and fourscore F The eight Day THE CONCEPTION of the most glorious and immacusate Virgin MARY mother of God by the grace and power of her Sonne that preserued her from all inquination of synne which feast being first of all begun to be celebrated in our Iland of Great Britany in the tyme of S. Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury and King VVilliam the Conquerour about the yeare of Christ one thousand threescore ten by the Monkes of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict to the honour and glory of the blessed Virgin was afterward confirmed by our Mother the holy Roman Church and coÌ„maunded to be kept holiday throughout Christendome to the increase of deuotion towards so mighty a Patronesse THE same day at VVinchester in Hampshire the Commemoration of Blessed Agatha Queene daughter to Salomon King of Hungary and wife to Prince Edward of England surnamed the Outlaw and Mother to the two famous Saintes Margaret and Christine who when after the death of her husband she saw her Sonne Edgar to whome the succession of the Crowne of England by right belonged to be iniustly depressed and molested by the inuasions of King Harold first and after of the Conquerour and therby frustrated of the recouery of the Kingdome she with her two daughters resolued to take their iourney backe towards Hungary by sca but being driuen by teÌ„pest into ScotlaÌ„d they were very honourably receyued by King Malcolme who tooke the forsaid Margaret to wife And after a while
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
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
in the Iland of Hoy in Scotland was ordayned Bishop of Lindisferne where for many yeares hauing instructed his flocke in all vertue and good learning finally in great sanctity of life he reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and nynty and in the raigne of Osred King of Northumberland F The thirtith Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Deusdedit Bishop and Confessor surnamed Frithona who being an English Saxon by birth succeeded S. Honorius in the Sea of Canterbury being consecrated therto by Ithimar Bishop of Rochester wherin when he had spent nyne yeares in continuall preaching and instructing his flocke famous for learning and sanctity of life he gaue vp his blessed soule to rest in the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and foure and was buryed in the Church of S. Augustines in Canterbury with his predecessors at whose body in confirmation of the innocency of his life it pleased God to worke many miracles THE MONETH OF IVLY G The first Day AT Carleon vpon Vske in South-wales the passion of the Saintes Iulius and Aaron Martyrs who being two noble ancieÌ„t Britans of the same Citty were in the persecution of the Roman Emperour Dioclesian with many others in our British primitiue Church most cruelly put to death for the Confession of Christ about the yeare of our Lord three hundred and foure There was an ancient goodly Church erected dedicated in their honour in the forsaid Citty of Carleon where also their bodyes haue in tymes past byn kept with great veneration of the old Britans of South-VVales THE same day in little Britany the deposition of S. Goluin Bishop and Conâ—essour borne in our Iland of great Britany of very honourable parents who going ouer into little Britany and there leading an Eremiticall life for many yeares was at last against his will elected and vpon obedience consecrated Bishop about the yeare of Christ six hundred In which function dignity he excelled in all kind of sanctity and holines of life working many miracles among the Frenchmen both aliue and dead A The second Day AT VVinchester in Hampshire the deposition of S. Suâ—ithin Confessour and Bishop of that Sea whose rare life togeather with his working of miracles is very famous to all posterity through the Christian world Whensoeuer he was to consecrate any new Church though it were neuer so far of yet would he go thither on foote It chanced on a Market day at VVinchester that a womaÌ„ passing ouer the bridg with a basket of egges where the holy man was sitting to see the workmen labour about mending of the bridge and one of the said labourers offering to iest with the woman and she resisting brake all her egges which thing the good Bishop seeing and lamenting the womans losse made the signe of the Crosse ouer the said broken egges and immediatly they all became whos 's againe He died about the yeare of Christ eight huÌ„dred threescore and two and was buryed at VVinchester THE same day at Landaffa in Clamorganshire of VVales the deposition of S. Oudocke Confessour and Bishop of that Sea who being descended of a noble bloud in Britany was famous for holines of life and working of miracles both aliue and dead He was the third Bishop of Landaffa and succeeded S. Telean in the same Sea about the yeare of Christ six hundred and thirty B The third Day AT Canterbury the Translation of S. Lanfranke Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea who being Abbot of Cane in Normandy was thence at the suite of K. VVilliam the Conquerour promoted to the Sea of Canterbury where in great holines of life he gouerned the same most laudably for nineteene yeares togeather and at last desceased the third yeare of the raigne of K. VVilliam Rusus and yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and nyne Vpon this day his body being taken vp afterward was with great solemnity tranâ—lated to a more emineÌ„t place of the Church of CaÌ„terbury wherat it is recorded many miracles haue byn wrought THE same day at Oostkerke in Flanders the deposition of S. Guthagon Confessour Sonne to a king of Scotland who taking vpon him a voluntary pouerty for the loue of Christ went ouer into Flanders and there became a pilgrimâ— or Eremite in the territory of Tornay where in great sanctity holinesse of life he reposed in our Lord. His body was afterward taken vp by Gerrard Bishop of Tornay and set in a more eminent place of the Church of Oostkâ—rke in the yeare of Christ one thousand â—â—ty and nyne where the same is kept with great honour and veneration of the inhabitants and is yet to be seene there through iron grates placed in a wall of the same Church C The fourth Day AT Canterbury the deposition of S. Odo Conâ—essour Archbishop of the same Sea Who being a man of excellent learning wisdome was first made Bishop of VVelles after of Canterbury In which dignity in great sanctity of life spirit of prophesy he ended his venerable old dayes in the yeare oâ— Christ nyne hundred fâ—fty and eight and was buried at Canterbury Matthew a Monke of VVestminster recounteth a dreadfull exaÌ„ple of reuenge taken vpon his successour in that Bishopricke Ealysine who so soone as S. Odo was dead and procuring himselâ—e to be elected in his roome by Symony the very first day oâ— his induction to that Sea he most coÌ„temptuously trode him vnder his feete in his graue With which fact God being highly offended soone after reuenged the same in the behalfe of S. Odo For Ealssine going to Rome for his Pall perished most miserablâ— through hungar and cold in the Alpes which thing was â—ortould also by S. Odo being forced before his death to put those his feete in the warme dung of horses with which he had so insolently troden vpon the others body in his graue D The fifth Day AT Burton vpon Trent in Staffordshire the festiuity of S. Moduâ—ene Virgin and Abbesle daughter to Nangâ—â—ee King of Ireland who after infinite miracles wrought in that Kingdome came into England there by the help of K. Ethelnulse whose sonne she by her prayers had cured of a dangerous sicknesse builded two famous Monasteryes neere to the forrest of Arden in VVaruickshire the one at Polesbury the other by the forrest side of which later she her selfe was Abbesse first and then of another Monastery at the forsaid Burton in Staffordshire And after this she went into Scotland to King Conwall her kinsman and thence backe againe into Ireland where in all kind of rare sanctimony of life and miracles she finally ended her blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and seauenty bequeathing her body to the forsaid Monastery of Burton whither it was brought and kept with great reuerence and veneration euen vntill our dayes Among her many miracles one is recorded that by
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
in great sanctity of life and working of miracles finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and one His body was afterward on this day translated to the Monastery of VValciodore aforsaid where the same is kept with great veneration of the Inhabitants THE same day in Brecknockshire of VVales the deposition or S. Keyna Virgin daughter to Braghan King of Brecknocke and great Aunt to S. Dauid Bish. of Meneuia who being in her infancy consecrated to God left her Countrey and came ouer the Riuer of Seuerne into England and there liued a most austere life in a solitary wood full of serpents into which no man durst enter for feare of death But by her prayers they were all turned into stones still retayning the shape of serpeÌ„ts And after that she had liued many yeares therin without humane assisiance she returned againe to her friends and Countrey and built herselfe a little Cottage vpon a hill where in continuall prayer and abstinence clad in hayrcloth she serued her Lord Sauiour vntill her dying day And being ready to depart out of this world an Angell came downe from heauen and put vpon her a white garment wrought with gould bidding her to be in readinesse to enter into the Kingdome of her Celestiall spouse She departed to our Lord vpon this day about the yeare of Christ foure hundred and nynty and was buryed in the same Prouince where her memory hath byn famous euen vntill our dayes She is called in the British tongue Keyn-vayre that is to say Keyne the Virgin B The ninth Day AT Lincolne the deposition of Bl. Robert surnamed Grossa-testa Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose great sanctity of life and vertues ioyned with learning especially in the Hebrew Greeke and Latyn tongues hath byn very famous in the Church of Christ. Among other workes he translated the Testamentes of the twelue Patriarkes out of Greeke into Latin as also wrote very learned CoÌ„mentaryes vpon the Psalter yet extant to be seene in wrytten hand in diuers Libraryes of Europe He was borne in Suffolke and in his youth trauayled into France where applying his studyes he attayned to great knowledge in Philosophy and Diuinity and at his returne backe was promoted first to the Arch deaconry of Licester and afterward to the Bishopricke of Lincolne which when he had gouerned most laudably for eighteene yeares he reposed happily in our Lord in the yeare of Christ one thousand two hundred fifty and three His body was most solemnly interred in a goodly marble Tombe in the south I le of his owne Cathedrall Church of Lincolne and there was wont to be kept with great reuerence and veneration euen vntill the dayes of King Henry the eight THE same day in the County of Hennalt in the Diocesse of Cambray the festiuity of S. Gislen Confessour who being an Irishman by birth went to Athens in Greece where he became first a Monke of the Order of S. S. Basil and thence returning by Rome came backe into the Lower-Germany and there built himselfe an Oratory in a Village three myles distant from Montz in Hennalt teaching and instructing the people of those partes in the Christian faith with great fruite and feruour of spirit vntill his dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ six hundred fourty His body is kept in a Monastery of his owne name in the forsaid Territory of Hennalt coÌ„moÌ„ly called S. Gislens where it is honoured vntill this day with great veneration of the Inhabitants round about C The tenth Day AT Rochester in Kent the Deposition of S. Pauline Bishop and Confessour who comming into England with S. Augustine and his fellowes conuerted the Kingdome of the Northumbers togeather with Edwyn King of that Prouince and so became their Apostle He was ordayned the first Archbishop of Yorke but being thence expulsed after King Edwyns death he came backe againe into Kent and there gouerned the Sea of Rochester being then voyd where in great sanctity of life he finally reposed in our Lord about the yeare Christ six hundred fourty and fiue His body was with all solemnity buryed in the Cathedrall Church of S. Andrew in Rochester and there kept with great veneration THE same day at Birlington in Yorkeshire the deposition of S. Iohn Confessour Prior of the Monastery of Chanons-Regular whose godly life full of sanctity hath byn manifested sufficiently by the miracles he wrought both aliue and dead He desceased in the yeare of Christ one thousand three hundred threescore and nynteene and was buryed at Birlington D The eleuenth Day AT Barking in Fssex the deposition of S. Edilburge Abbesse sister to S. Erconwald Bishop of Lodon who by him was coÌ„stituted Gouernesse of a new Monastery that himselfe had built by the forsaid towne of Barking vpon the Riuer of Thames where in all kind of sanctimony of life and Monasticall discipline she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse in the yeare of Christ six hundred threefore and sixteene THE same day in Scotland the deposition of S. Canicke Abbot CoÌ„fessour whose godly life and miracles haue byn famous throughout the Christian world but especially in Scotland where he was borne liued and died about the yeare of Christ eight hundred E The tweluth Day AT Rippon in Yorkeshire the deposition of S. VVil 〈…〉 ride Confessour and Archbishop of Yorke who being twice expulsed his Bishopricke by Egfrid King of the Northumbers went and preached to the Southsaxons where he conuerted the I le of VVight and first planted the Christian faith in that place And when he had thus laboured for many yeares in his banishment to the gayning of infinite soules to God being at last restored to his Bishopricke in all sanctity or life and miracles he finally rested in our Lord vpon the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and eleuen and was buryed in S Peters Church at Rippon aforsaid which himselfe had built on the south side of the high Altar Ouer whose tombe was engrauen this ancient Epitaph following VVilfridus hic magnus requiescit corpore Praesul Hanc Domino qut Aulam du 〈…〉 us pietaâ—i amore Fecit exi 〈…〉 o sacrauit nomine PETRI C 〈…〉 laues cali Christus dedit arbiter Orbis Atque auro ac Tyrio deuotus vestijt ostro Quin etiam sublime Crucis radiante metallo Hic posuit tropheüm nec non quattuor auro Scribi Euangel 〈…〉 praerepit in ordine libros Ac thecam è ruâ—ilo his con 〈…〉 ignam condidit auro Paschalis qui etiam solem 〈…〉 a tempora cursus Catholci adiustum correxit dogma Canonis Quem statuere Paires dubioque errore remoto Certa suae Ge 〈…〉 i ostendit moderam 〈…〉 na ritus Inque loc 〈…〉 stis Monachorum examina crebra Colligit ac monitis cauit quae regula Patrum Sedulus in 〈…〉 it 〈…〉 sue do 〈…〉 ue forisue Iactatus 〈…〉 mium
especially in our Iland of Great Britany He died on this day about the yeare of Christ one thousand and fourty hauing byn Bishop seauenteene yeares was solemnly interred in his owne Church at Canterbury in the raigne of King Hareld of England It is recorded that he going to Rome to fetch his Archiepiscopall Pall brought thence with him an Arme of S. Augustine the Doctor and bestowed it vpon the Abbey of CouoÌ„try in VVarwickshire where the same was kept with great reuerence vntill the tyme of King Henry the eight and decay of that Monastery C The one thirtith Day IN Hennalt the Passion of S. Foillan Bishop and Martyr Sonne to Philtan King of Ireland who-being first a Monke and then Abbot of a Monastery called Knobhersburge in the Kingdome of the Eastangles went to Rome and being there ordayned Bishop by Pope Martyn the first was sent backe into Frace Flanders to preach the ChristiaÌ„ faith whereat last as he was exercising of his Pastorall function he was slayne togeather with three other Companions in the Territory of Hennalt in the Diocesse of Namures whose death being reueyled to his brother S. Vltan and S. Gertrude Abbesse of Niuelle his body was presently sought out and being found was with all solemnity brought to the Monastery of Fossis and there is yet conserued with great veneration of the Inhabitants He suffered about the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourty THE MONETH OF NOVEMBER A The first Day AT Fulda in the higher Germany the Translation of S. Boniface Archbishop of Mentz and Martyr who borne in the Citty of London and going into Germany to preach the Christian faith went thence to Rome and was there by Pope Gregory the second ordayned the first Bishop of Mentz and sent backe to his Bishopricke where teaching and preaching the faith of Christ to the Germans he conuerted the greatest part of that Countrey became their Apostle He was finally martyred in Frizeland at a towne called Dockum with fifty other companions about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred firty foure His body was afterward of this day translated to the Monastery of Fulda which himselfe had founded where the same is kept with great honour and veneration for the miracles that haue byn wrought therat THE same day in the Monastery of Hampole neere Doncaster in Yorkeshire the CoÌ„memoration of Blessed Richard Confessour Ermite whose singular spirit of piety deuotion is left written and manifest to the world by his owne workes yet extant He was first a Doctor and then leauing the world became an Eremite and led a solitary life neere to the forsaid Monastery of Hampole to which place he was wont often to repayre to sing psalmes and hymnes in honour of God as himselfe testifieth in his workes And after many spirituall bookes and treatises by him wrytten full of great sanctity of life and venerable old age he finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ one thousand three hundred fourty and nyne and was buryed at Hampole E The second Day AT Lens in the Prouince of Artoys the 〈…〉 iuity of S. Vulganius Bishop and Confessour who borne in Ireland and going thence with the Saintes Foillan Obodius and others of that Nation into the lower Germanâ— began there to preach the Christian saith and was at last consecrated Bishop Where after infinite labours and trauayles taken for the loue of Christ in propagating his name and faith among the Infidells of those partes in all 〈…〉 ctity and holines of life he ended his blessed dayes about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred and foure His body is yet kept with great honour and veneration at the forsaid towne of Lens in the Monastery there of the Chanons-regular where his feast is yearly celebrated on this day with great solemnity and deuotion of the Inhabitantes of that place F The third Day IN North-wales the Deposition of S. VVenefride Virgin and Martyr daughter to a noble Britan of those partes called Trebuith whose head being cut of by Cradocus Sonne to Alane King of North-wales for not consenting to his vnlawfull Iust was by her Maister S. Beno set on againe she liuing fifteene yeares a ter to the admiration of the whole world for so famous a miracle In the place where she was beheaded presently sprang vp a miraculous fountayne very soueraigne for the curing of many diseases which vntill this day is a great pilgrimage and place of deuotion for all Catholickes of England commonly called S. VVenefrides well Her body was afterward translated to Shrewsbury about the yeare of Christ one thousand one hundred thirty and eight This festiuity of hers was wont to be celebrated in our Catholicke Church of England with an Office of nyne lessons according to the vse of Sarum and in many places kept holiday THE same day at VVilton in Wiâ—â—shire the Translation of S. Edith Virgin daughter to holy Edgar King and Monarch of England who after the death of her Mother VVilfred was ordayned Abbesse of the Monastery of VVilton aforsaid where in all sanctimony and holines of life she gaue vp her soule to rest and was buryed there in the Church of S. Dionyse which herselfe had somtyme built about the yeare of Christ 984. whose body was afterward on this day taken vp and translated to a more eminent place of the same Church wherat it is recorded many miracles to haue byn wrought This woman is commonly called by the name of S. Edith the yonger G The fourth Day IN France the Passion of S. Clâ—re Priest and Martyr who descended oâ— a worthy British stocke and borne in the Citty of Rochester in Kent his worldly friends would haue had him to marry a wife against his will for which he forsaking both CouÌ„trey frieÌ„ds went ouer into Normandy where he taking holy Orders was made Priest and afterward going thence into France for that he refused to yield to the lust of a noble womaÌ„ of that CouÌ„trey was slayne by her procurement in defence of his charity about the yeare of Christ six hundred threescore and six His body was buryed there in a Village called Volcassine wherat it pleased God in signe of his innocency to worke many miracles A The fifth Day AT Clarâ—uallis in the Territory of LaÌ„gres in France the festiuity of S. Malachy Bishop CoÌ„ 〈…〉 our who being first a Monke o◠〈…〉 hor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then Abbot was after or 〈…〉 ned Bishop or 〈…〉 rthen â—n the same 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Pr 〈…〉 ate oâ— Ireland 〈…〉 e 〈◊〉 and diâ—d in the tyme of S. Bernard â—bout the care of Ch 〈…〉 onâ— thousand one huÌ„d 〈…〉 〈◊〉 eight who wrote vnto him diuers learned 〈◊〉 s as also his whole life yet extant among S. Bernards workes He desceasâ—d the second day oâ— this moneth in the forsaid Monastery of Clareuallis though his 〈…〉 iuity be coÌ„monly celebrated on this day because on
that they had stayed there Agatha the Mother and Christine the other daughter returned into England entred both into the Monastery of Religious women at VVinchester where in very great sanctimony of life they finally ended their blessed dayes the Mother desceasing about the yeare of Christ one thousand threescore and twelue whose body being interred in the same Monastery hath byn kept with great veneration euen vntill our dayes G The ninth Day AT Shaftesbury in Dorcetshire the Commemoration of S. Ethelgine Abbesse daughther to Alfred King of the VVestsaxons who despising all temporall and worldly preferments tooke a Religious habit and became a Nunne in the Monastery of the forsaid Towne of Shaftesbury which her Father had there newly erected wherof at last she being ordayned Abbesse gouerned the same in all sanctimony of life and exact Monasticall discipline vntill her dying day which happened about the yeare of Christ eight hundred fourscore and sixteene A The tenth Day AT Glower in Clamorganshire of VVales the Commemoration of S. Chiâ—â—d Confessour and Eremite who borne in Wales and there descended of an ancient and noble British lynage contemned the vanityes of the world and for the loue of Christ became an Eremite leading a most strict and seuere kind of life in the Mountaynes of the forsaid Prouince of Clamorgan where in very great sanctity and holines of life he finally ended his happy dayes His body was buryed at the forsaid Towne of Glower whose memory hath in tymes past byn very famous throughout England but especially among the ancient Britans of VVales B The eleuenth Day IN Morauia the Commemoration of S. Geruadius Bishop and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of a noble parentage in that Kingdome tooke a Religions habit and became a Monke there of the Venerable order of S. Benedict and thence went ouer into Germany and lastly into Morauia where being created Bishop he preached the Christian faith incessantly to that Nation and became their Apostle And a ter that he had brought many thousands from their Idolatry to the true worship of one God full of venerable old age in great sanctity and holines of life he finally rested in our Lord about the yeare of Christ eight hundred and soure C The tweluth Day IN the I le of Crowland in Lincolnshire the Commemoration oâ— S. Elâ—rede Virgin daughter to Offa the Pagan King of Mercia who being conuerted to the ChristiaÌ„ faith principally by the murder coÌ„mitted by her Mother vpon King Ethelbert of the Eastangles that came to demaund her in Marriage for his wife forsooke her said parents friends and all other worldly prefermeÌ„ts and tooke a Religious habit in the Monastery of S. Guthlacke in the forsaid I le of Crowland where in great sanctimony of life and obseruance of Monasticall discipline she gaue vp her soule to her heauenly spouse about the yeare of Christ seauen hundred fourscore and thirteene D The thirteenth Day AT Pontoyse in France the Deposition of S. Iudo 〈…〉 Confessour and Ermite who being desceâ—â—ed of a most noble British bloud forsaking all worldly prefermentes went ouer into France and there for the loue of Christ became an Ermite In which kind of life he so excelled in sanctity and holines that it pleased God to manifest the same by the incorruptibility of his body which is kept whole vntill this day with great veneration at the forsaid Towne of Po 〈…〉 oyse He gaue almes foure tymes to Christ visibly in the habit of a poore man that demaunded the same and died in the yeare of Christ six hundred fifty and three Whose worthy praise this distich declareth Regia Progenies veterum styrps clara Britannúm Ecce nitet ruâ—la Iudocus luce per Orbem THE same day in the â—le of Thanet in Kent the deposition of S. Edburge Virgin and Abbesse daughter to blessed Ethelbert the first Christian King of that Prouince who being baptized and instructed in the Christian â—aith by S. Augustine our Apostle forsooke the world and entred into the Mona 〈…〉 ery of holy Virgins erected in the I le of Thanet aforsaid vnder the gouerment of her neece S. Mâ—ldred after whose death she became Abbesse of the same place where in all sanctimony of life she ended her blessed dayes S. Lansranke Archbishop of Canterbury in the yeare of Christ one thousand fourscore and siue translated her body as also S. Mildreds vnto Canterbury and placed them there in the Church of S. Gregory which he had newly repayred and enriched wherat miracles are recorded to haue byn wrought E The fourteenth Day AT Cullen in Germany the CoÌ„memoratioÌ„ of S. Munborine Abbot and Confessour who borne in Scotland and descended of a noble bloud in that Kingdome despised the world and became first a Monke of the Venerable Order of S. Benedict and afterward went ouer into Germany and there was made Abbot of a Monastery dedicated to S. Martin in Calles which when he had most laudably gouerned for twelue yeares or therabout in great sanctity of life and miracles he endeâ— his blessed dayes in the yeare of Christ nyne hundred four score and thirteene and was buryed in the same place F The fifteenth Day AT Strenshalt in the Kingdome of the Northumbers the Translation of S. Hilda Virgin and Abbesse daughter to Prince Herericke nephew to Edwyn King of the same Prouince who from her infancy giuing herselfe wholy to deuotion and piety became a Religious woman first in a little Nunry by the Riuer of Wyre and then was ordayned Abbesse of a Monastery erected in the forsaid Kingdome neere to the sea side called Hartsey at this day coÌ„monly knowne by the name of VVhitby in Yorkeshire afterward of another Monastery also in the same Prouince called StreÌ„shalt which herselfe had built where in all kind of holines of life excercise of Monasticall discipline glorious for miracles she finally weÌ„t vnto her spouse in the yeare of Christ six hundred and fourscore Her body was after many yeares taken vp and set in a more eminent place of the forsaid Church of Strenshalt where before she lay buryed wherat it pleased God to worke many miracles G The sixteenth Day AT Aberdine in Scotland the depositioÌ„ of S. Bean Confessour and Bishop of the same Sea whose wonderfull holines of life togeather with the Miracles he wrought both aliue and dead haue in tymes past byn famous throughout the Christian world but especially in Scotland and Ireland where also many goodly Churches Altars haue byn erected and dedicated in his honour THE same day at Dormundcaster-Monastery two miles from Peterburrow in NorthaÌ„ptonshire the Commemoration of S. Tibbe Virgin and Anchoresse who descended of a noble bloud in our Iland and KinswomaÌ„ to the Saints Kinisdred and Kiniswide forsooke the pleasures of the world and became an Anchoresse for the loue of Christ liuing a most strict and seuere kind of