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Unity and reform: learning, missions, and a fully Christian England take shape.

1. Chapter 1
   The hermit Ethelwald, Cuthbert’s successor, calms a storm by his prayer when some brethren are in danger at sea
2. Chapter 2
   The blessing of Bishop John cures a dumb man
3. Chapter 3
   Bishop John heals a sick girl by his prayers
4. Chapter 4
   The Bishop cures a thegn’s wife with holy water
5. Chapter 5
   The Bishop’s prayers recall the servant of a thegn from death’s door
6. Chapter 6
   By his prayers and blessing, Bishop John saves from death one of his clergy who had been bruised in a fall
7. Chapter 7
   Cadwalla, King of the West Saxons, goes to Rome for Baptism: his successor Ini also makes a pilgrimage of devotion to the shrine of the Apostles [a.d. 688]
8. Chapter 8
   On the death of Theodore, Bertwald becomes archbishop [a.d. 690]: among bishops consecrated by him is Tobias, Bishop of Rochester, a man of great learning
9. Chapter 9
   Egbert, a holy man, plans to travel to Germany and preach, but is prevented. Subsequently Wictbert goes, but meeting with no success, returns to his native Ireland
10. Chapter 10
    Willibrord preaches in Frisia and converts many to Christ: his companions the Hewalds suffer martyrdom [a.d. 692]
11. Chapter 11
    The venerable Swidbert in Britain, and Willibrord in Rome, are consecrated bishops for Frisia [a.d 692]
12. Chapter 12
    A man in the Province of the Northumbrians returns from the dead, and tells of the many dreadful and many desirable things that he saw
13. Chapter 13
    Devils show another man a record of his sins before his death
14. Chapter 14
    Another man about to die sees the place of punishment reserved for him in Hell
15. Chapter 15
    Under Adamnan’s influence, many churches of the Irish adopt the Catholic Easter. He writes a book on the Holy Places [c. a.d. 703]
16. Chapter 16
    Descriptions from this book of the sites of our Lord’s Birth, Passion, and Resurrection
17. Chapter 17
    The site of our Lord’s Ascension, and the tombs of the patriarchs
18. Chapter 18
    The South Saxons receive as their bishops Eadbert and Ealla, and the West Saxons Daniel and Aldhelm. The writings of Aldhelm [c a.d. 705]
19. Chapter 19
    Coenred, King of the Mercians, and Offa, King of the East Saxons, end their days in Rome as monks. The life and death of Bishop Wilfrid [a.d. 709]
20. Chapter 20
    Albinus succeeds the devout Abbot Hadrian, and Acca succeeds to Wilfrid’s bishopric [a.d. 709]
21. Chapter 21
    Abbot Ceolfrid sends church architects to the King of the Pictst and with them a letter about the Catholic Easter and tonsure [c.a.d. 710]
22. Chapter 22
    The monks of Iona and the monasteries under its jurisdiction begin to adopt the canonical Easter at the preaching of Egbert [a.d. 716]
23. Chapter 23
    The present state of the English nation and the rest of Britain [a.d. 725–31]
24. Chapter 24
    A chronological summary of the whole book, and a personal note on the author

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