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The Vita Sancti Wilfrithi or Life of St Wilfrid (spelled "Wilfrid" in the modern era [2]) is an early 8th-century hagiographic text recounting the life of the Northumbrian bishop, Wilfrid. Although a hagiography , it has few miracles, while its main concerns are with the politics of the Northumbrian church and the history of the monasteries of ...
Wilfrid is also mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, [33] but as the Chronicle was probably a 9th-century compilation, the material on Wilfrid may ultimately have derived either from Stephen's Vita or from Bede. [34] Another, later, source is the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi written by Eadmer, a 12th-century Anglo-Norman writer and monk from ...
Stephen's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi is the only documentary source on Saint Wilfrid, aside from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. It was written shortly after Wilfrid's death in 709. Stephen was asked to write the Vita by Acca of Hexham, one of Wilfrid's followers, who later became a bishop and succeeded Wilfrid in the See of ...
The Synod of Whitby was a Christian administrative gathering held in Northumbria in 664, wherein King Oswiu ruled that his kingdom would calculate Easter and observe the monastic tonsure according to the customs of Rome rather than the customs practised by Irish monks at Iona and its satellite institutions.
His father, named Wilgils or Hilgis, [2] was styled by Alcuin as a Saxon of Northumbria.. Statue in Carlow Cathedral, Ireland. Newly converted to Christianity, Wilgils entrusted his son as an oblate to Ripon Abbey, [2] and withdrew from the world, constructing a small oratory, near the mouth of the Humber, dedicated to Saint Andrew.
VITA SANCTI THOMAE, CANTUARIENSIS ARCHIEPISCOPI ET MARTYRIS, AUCTORE WILLELMO FILIO STEPHANI 1882 edition of the original Latin in Hathi Trust; An Annotated Translation of the Life of St. Thomas Becket by William Fitzstephen -- Part One, translated from Latin to English by Leo T. Gourde, year 1943
According to the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi by Stephen of Ripon, Bathild was a ruthless ruler, in conflict with the bishops and perhaps responsible for several assassinations. [15] However, the bishop she so famously murdered, Dalfinus, is not listed as a bishop of Lyon. The story may have been written to embellish the life of Wilfrid. [16]
In the most celebrated episode of the Vita Sancti Paternus, King Arthur tries to steal St Padarn's tunic. King Arthur covets Padarn's tunic, and when he is refused, stamps the earth, at which Padarn calls on the earth to swallow him; it does so. Arthur has to beg forgiveness before he is released.