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]