Christianity spreads north: kings, saints, and the Synod of Whitby define orthodoxy.
-
Chapter 1
King Edwin’s immediate successors abandon their people’s Faith and lose their kingdom: the most Christian King Oswald restores both [a.d. 633–4]
-
Chapter 2
Before engaging the heathen in battle, King Oswald sets up a wooden cross: a young man is later healed by a portion of it, and innumerable other miracles take place [a.d. 634]
-
Chapter 3
Oswald asks the Irish to send him a bishop: when Aidan arrives, he grants him the island of Lindisfarne as his episcopal see [a.d. 635]
-
Chapter 4
How the Picts received the Faith of Christ [a.d. 565]
-
Chapter 5
The Life of Bishop Aidan [died a.d. 651]
-
Chapter 6
The wonderful devotion and piety of King Oswald
-
Chapter 7
The West Saxons accept the Faith through the teaching of Birinus and his successors Agilbert and Leutherius [a.d. 635]
-
Chapter 8
Earconbert, King of Kent, orders the destruction of idols. His daughter Earcongota and his kinswoman Ethelberga dedicate themselves to God as nuns [a.d. 640]
-
Chapter 9
Miraculous cures take place at the site of Oswald’s death. A traveller’s horse is cured, and a paralytic girl healed.
-
Chapter 10
How the earth from this place has power over fire
-
Chapter 11
A heavenly light appears all night over Oswald’s tomb, and folk are healed from demonic possession
-
Chapter 12
A little boy is cured of ague at Saint Oswald’s tomb
-
Chapter 13
A man in Ireland is recalled from death’s door by means of Oswald’s relics
-
Chapter 14
On the death of Paulinus, Ithamar succeeds to his Bishopric of Rochester. An account of the wonderful humility of King Oswin, who was treacherously murdered by Oswy [a.d. 642–651]
-
Chapter 15
Bishop Aidan foretells a coming storm, and gives seafarers holy oil to calm the waves [c. a.d. 651]
-
Chapter 16
Aidan’s prayers save the royal city when fired by the enemy
-
Chapter 17
The wooden buttress of the church against which Aidan leaned as he died is untouched when the rest of the church is burned down. His spiritual life [a.d. 651]
-
Chapter 18
The life and death of the devout King Sigbert [c. a.d. 635]
-
Chapter 19
Fursey establishes a monastery among the East Angles: the incorruption of his body after death attests to his visions and holiness [a.d. 633]
-
Chapter 20
On the death of Honorius [a.d. 653], Deusdedit succeeds him as Archbishop of Canterbury. The succession of the bishops of the East Angles and of Rochester
-
Chapter 21
The Province of the Middle Angles, under its king Peada, becomes Christian [a.d. 653]
-
Chapter 22
The East Saxons, who had apostatized from the Faith under King Sigbert, are re-converted by the preaching of Cedd [a.d. 653]
-
Chapter 23
Cedd receives the site for a monastery from King Ethelwald, and hallows it to our Lord with prayer and fasting: his death [a.d. 659]
-
Chapter 24
On the death of Penda, the Province of the Mercians accepts the Faith of Christ: in gratitude for his victory, Oswy gives endowments and lands to God for the building of monasteries [a.d. 655]
-
Chapter 25
Controversy arises with the Irish over the date of Easter [a.d. 664]
-
Chapter 26
After his defeat Colman returns home and Tuda succeeds to his bishopric [a.d. 664]; the condition of the Church under these teachers
-
Chapter 27
Egbert, an Englishman of holy life, becomes a monk in Ireland
-
Chapter 28
On Tuda’s death, Wilfrid is consecrated bishop in Gaul and Chad among the West Saxons, to be bishops in the Province of the Northumbrians [a.d. 665]
-
Chapter 29
The priest Wighard is sent from Britain to Rome to be made archbishop: letters from the apostolic Pope tell of his death there [a.d. 655]
-
Chapter 30
During a plague the East Saxons lapse into idolatry, but are quickly recalled from their errors by Bishop Jaruman [a.d. 665]
