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Consolidation and conflict: the English Church organizes, expands, and matures.

  1. Chapter 1
    On the death of Archbishop Deusdedit, Wighard is sent to Rome to be consecrated in his stead: on the latter’s death there, Theodore is consecrated Archbishop and sent to Britain with Abbot Hadrian [a.d. 664]
  2. Chapter 2
    Theodore makes a general visitation: the English churches begin to receive instruction in Catholic truth, and sacred study is fostered. Putta succeeds Damian as Bishop of Rochester [a.d. 669]
  3. Chapter 3
    Chad is appointed Bishop of the Mercians [c. a.d. 667]; his life, death [a.d. 672], and burial
  4. Chapter 4
    Bishop Colman leaves Britain, and founds two monasteries in the land of the Irish, one for the Irish, and another for the English whom he had taken with him [a.d. 667]
  5. Chapter 5
    The death of King Oswy and King Egbert. Archbishop Theodore presides over a Synod held at Hertford [a.d. 673]
  6. Chapter 6
    Wynfrid is deposed, and Sexwulf appointed to his see: Earconwald is made Bishop of the East Saxons [a.d. 675]
  7. Chapter 7
    A heavenly light indicates where the bodies of the nuns of Barking should be buried
  8. Chapter 8
    A little boy, dying in the convent, announces the approaching death of one of the sisters. A nun, about to depart this life, sees a glimpse of future glory
  9. Chapter 9
    Signs from heaven appear when the Mother of the Community departs this life
  10. Chapter 10
    A blind woman regains her sight while praying in the convent burial-ground
  11. Chapter 11
    Sebbi, King of the East Saxons, ends his days as a monk
  12. Chapter 12
    Haeddi succeeds Leutherius as Bishop of the West Saxons: Cuichelm succeeds Putta in the See of Rochester, and is himself succeeded by Gebmund. The succession of the Northumbrian bishops
  13. Chapter 13
    Wilfrid converts the Province of the South Saxons to Christ [see also v. 19]
  14. Chapter 14
    A fatal epidemic is halted by the intercession of King Oswald
  15. Chapter 15
    King Cadwalla of the Gewissae kills King Ethelwalh and devastates his province with plundering and slaughter
  16. Chapter 16
    The Isle of Wight receives Christian settlers. Two young princes of the island are killed immediately after Baptism [a.d. 686]
  17. Chapter 17
    Theodore presides over a Synod held in the Plain of Haethfeld (Hatfield) [a.d. 680]
  18. Chapter 18
    John, Arch-cantor of the apostolic see, comes to teach in Britain [a.d. 680]
  19. Chapter 19
    Queen Etheldreda preserves her virginity, and her body remains incorrupt in the grave [a.d. 660]
  20. Chapter 20
    A hymn in honour of Etheldreda
  21. Chapter 21
    Archbishop Theodore makes peace between King Egfrid and King Ethelred [a.d. 679]
  22. Chapter 22
    A prisoner’s chains fall off when Masses are sung on his behalf [a.d. 679]
  23. Chapter 23
    The life and death of Abbess Hilda [a.d. 680]
  24. Chapter 24
    A brother of the monastery is found to possess God’s gift of poetry [a.d. 680]
  25. Chapter 25
    A man of God sees a vision portending the destruction of Coldingham monastery by fire
  26. Chapter 26
    On the death of King Egfrid and King Hlothere [a.d. 685]
  27. Chapter 27
    Cuthbert, a man of God, is made bishop [a.d. 685]: his life and teaching as a monk
  28. Chapter 28
    Cuthbert becomes a hermit: his prayers obtain a spring from dry ground, and a crop from seed sown out of season
  29. Chapter 29
    Cuthbert foretells his own death to the hermit Herebert [a.d. 687]
  30. Chapter 30
    After eleven years in the grave, Cuthbert’s body is found incorrupt. His successor departs this life soon afterwards [a.d. 698]
  31. Chapter 31
    A brother is cured of paralysis at Cuthbert’s tomb
  32. Chapter 32
    The relics of Saint Cuthbert heal another brother’s diseased eye