Source: Textual EditionBede.VitCuthbertiMetr

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Metrical Life of Saint Cuthbert

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Author Bede
Source Title Metrical Life of Saint Cuthbert
Date of composition shortly after 705
Language Latin

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Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to Bedas metrische Vita sancti Cuthberti Jaager, Werner Bedas metrische Vita sancti Cuthberti Leipzig 1935 56-133

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Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Lapidge, Michael Bede's Latin Poetry Oxford forthcoming  

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  46 Felgild 1 took down the calf-skin from the wall, cut it into pieces, and put the first stripe in water. When a drop fell on his face, he wept it away and discovered that he had been healed of his facial tumour.
2 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  45 While he was giving Anonymous 119 some heavenly admonitions, Æthelwald 8 inadvertently revealed his miraculous powers, but asked the companion to keep it secret until his own death.
3 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  44 The calf-skin with which Cuthbert 1 had covered the exposed side of his dwelling at Farne was distributed to many people through Felgild 1's generosity. It poured out medicinal cures far and wide from its innate power.
4 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  43 A paralytic man (Anonymous 30), for whom medicine had been useless, placed on his feet Cuthbert 1's shoes and was healed during the night.
5 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  42 A man (Anonymous 117) whose eyesight was afflicted with pain and encroaching blindness was healed by touching his eyes with Cuthbert 1's handkerchief.
6 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  41 A sick man (Anonymous 116) was brought to the tomb of Cuthbert 1 and after a few days he received his former health.
7 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  40 Anonymous 25 took his son (Anonymous 24) possessed by a demon to the holy tomb of Cuthbert 1 and Eadberht 3. He was not healed at first, but then a man took a bit of soil from the place where they had washed the body of Cuthbert 1. He mixed the soil with some water and gave it to the boy to drink.
8 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  39 Eadberht 3's body was placed in Cuthbert's resting-place.
9 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  38 Eadberht 3 decided to exhume the saint's remains in order to palace them in a graceful shrine
10 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  37 When Cuthbert 1 was committed to a fittingly glorious tomb, being interred in marble at the right side of the altar, suddenly the insistent north wind struck the monastery on all sides and the brethren chose to abandon the site rather than to undergo that danger.
11 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  36 Cuthbert 1 died after receiving his viaticum, while still engaged in heavenly praise.
12 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  35 When the brethren insisted for him take one attendant in his dwelling, Cuthbert 1 chose Wealhstod 1, so that he could provide the consolation of brotherly love for him. As soon as he entered the dwelling, Wealhstod 1 was healed from his dysentery.
13 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  33-4 Cuthbert 1 asked to be buried on Farne Island, but when the monks (Anonymi 285) came back to see him, they asked whether it would be appropriate to take the body of their dear father with them for burial.
14 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  31 Ælfflæd 2 sent a messenger (Anonymous 23) to all her people. She finally learnt the truth on the following day and reported it to Cuthbert 1 as he was celebrating mass.
15 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  31 While Cuthbert 1 was sitting at dinner, he was suddenly transported away and his shaking hand dropped the knife. When Ælfflæd 2 asked what was happening, he said that one of her monks was being borne to heaven.
16 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  30 Hereberht 3 came to Cuthbert 1 seeking to be strengthened by the conversation with the holy man. When Cuthbert 1 told him that that would be their last meeting before his own death, Hereberht 3 asked him to pray so that they could die together.
17 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  29 Cuthbert 1 foresaw in his mind that the war between Ecgfrith 4 and the Picts was to result in a wretched end and the death of the king.
18 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  27 Cuthbert 1 saw a mother (Anonymous 108) bearing sadly the imminent death of her lifeless son (Anonymous 107). He gave him the kiss of life and told the mother that the boy would be cured and all her household would escape this incidence of death.
19 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  26 They brought to Cuthbert 1 a young man (Anonymous 41) on a litter, barely able to draw rasping breath. With his prayers Cuthbert 1 raised up the diseased limbs.
20 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  25 A man afflicted with severe illness (Anonymous 104) gathered together some of his friends on his deathbed. One of them (Anonymous 105) gave him some bread which Cuthbert 1 had once consecrated and given to him as a holy gift. They dipped it in water and gave the sick man the water to drink. He was healed immediately.
21 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  24 By anointing Anonymous 103 with the holy chrism, Cuthbert 1 restored her health.
22 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  23 Cuthbert 1 gave Anonymous 101 the gift of some holy water, which his priest (Anonymous 102) administered to remove her illness
23 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  21 Ecgfrith 4 died in the war against the Picts.
24 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  21 Cuthbert 1 told Ælfflæd 2 that he would be bishop only for two years
25 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  21 Ælfflæd 2 asked Cuthbert 1 who was to succeed Ecgfrith 4 as king. He replied that another brother of hers would become king.
26 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  21 Ælfflæd 2 asked Cuthbert 1 to meet her. He consented and set out in a boat. She asked him how long Ecgfrith 4 was to command his kingdom and he told her that he would die in one year's time.
27 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  20 Boisil 1 prophesied that Cuthbert 1 was to become a bishop
28 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  19 Cuthbert 1 wanted to build a little house facing the sea. He asked the monks (Anonymi 282) to bring some wood, but they forgot. The next tide brought a piece of drift-wood and cast it up in the place where he wanted it.
29 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  18 Two ravens attacked Cuthbert 1's out-houses and removed thatch from the roof to use it for their nests. Cuthbert 1 warned them to stop and they departed. After three days one came back begging forgiveness and permission to return. In due course they both arrived happily and brought some pork lard as a gift for Cuthbert 1.
30 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  17 After sowing some land and when an abundant crop had sprung up, some birds attempted to steal Cuthbert 1's corn, When he spoke to them, they departed and never again dared to infringe his jurisdiction.
31 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  16 Cuthbert 1 was able to turn water into pure wine.
32 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  16 Through his prayers Cuthbert 1 struck a pleasant spring of water from the dry rock.
33 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  15 Cuthbert 1 established humble dwellings and strengthened the walls with movable stones which six strong men could scarcely carry on their backs.
34 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  15 The island was stiff with aerial demons and it fended off all human occupancy with dark threats. Cuthbert 1 expelled its foul inhabitants from their dwellings.
35 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  13 Anonymous 97 went to see Cuthbert 1 and asked him to send someone to his wife (Anonymous 98) who was dying. While Cuthbert 1 was organizing this, he realized that the woman was possessed by a demon and decided to go himself. On the way there, he told the husband not to worry as his wife would have been healed before they reached the house.
36 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  12 Through prayer Cuthbert 1 extinguished the flames which had seized the dry thatches of a roof.
37 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  11 Cuthbert 1 foresaw that an imaginary devilish fire would arrive.
38 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  10 By means of admonition and the waters of baptism, Cuthbert 1 revealed the way for the people called to the kingdom of heaven.
39 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  10 During a journey Cuthbert 1 asked his companion (Anonymous 96) what he intended to do to take sustenance. When his companion said that he was wondering about that very thing, Cuthbert 1 invited him to trust the Lord and told him that an eagle would provide them with food.
40 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  9 As Cuthbert 1's return journey was impeded by the seas and the sailors (Anonymi 280) were frightened on that foreign shore, Cuthbert 1 invited everybody to pray God and have faith in Him. When he had finished speaking he saw three morsels cut from the flesh of a fish.
41 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  9 Cuthbert 1 was carried by ship to the land of the Picts.
42 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  8 When Anonymous 95 was sick, he told Cuthbert 1 that he had seen him with the sea animals. Cuthbert 1 healed him, forgave him and asked him not to tell anyone about what he had seen until Cuthbert 1's death.
43 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  8 On one night spent in prayer, two sea animals came out of the waters to warm Cuthbert 1's frozen feet with their fur and breath. Then they begged him to give them a blessing. One of the brethren followed him and watched these things.
44 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  7 In the midst of winter Cuthbert 1 received an angel who pretended to be a guest. Cuthbert 1 washed his limbs and asked him to stay there for a meal. Then, he went to look for some bread and when he came back, the angel had gone leaving three loaves of bread made with white flour.
45 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  6 while Cuthbert 1 was on a journey, he was held up by a rain-storm and made a detour under the roof of an ancient shippen. While he was praying, he suddenly saw his horse snatch at the roof of the hut with a bite and there fell some food.
46 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  5 A priest (Anonymous 94), when ordered to set forth on the wave-sounding sea, asked Aidan 1 to protect him and his companions through his prayers. Aidan 1 told him that the north wind would rise against them, but he also gave him some oil with which the sea could be calmed.
47 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  4 While Cuthbert 1 was feeding lambs in the hills, as he was keeping vigil with nocturnal hymns, he saw a holy soul being carried to heaven.
48 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  3 Some monks (Anonymi 278) were transporting wood on five rafts on the surface of the river Tyne. Because of the wind the rafts were swept along by the swift current out into the expanse of the sea. The monks in the monastery (Anonymi 277) came out to pray for the safety of their brothers, but it was only when Cuthbert 1 started praying that the winds changed course and the rafts were cast up on land.
49 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  2 When Cuthbert 1 was afflicted with a diseased knee, a man on horse back arrived and told him to prepare some gleaming white wheaten flour with milk in a pot, cook it and place it on the swelling. Cuthbert 1 did so and was healed.
50 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  1 A three-year old child (Anonymous 29) exhorted Cuthbert 1 not to place his trust in questionable activities, but to strengthen his fixed resolve in the love of the Lord. When Cuthbert 1 laughed at these words, the child started crying and subsequently told Cuthbert 1 that he would become a bishop.
51 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  Praefatio Bede 1 was healed of his tongue through Cuthbert 1's relics
52 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  Praefatio Bede 1 wrote a Metrical Life of Cuthbert shortly before sending it to John 19.
53 Event Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  Praefatio Bede 1 says that he has sent his Metrical Life of Cuthbert to John 19, so that the latter's journey to Rome could be lighter.
54 Transaction Bede.VitCuthbertiMetr  Praefatio Bede 1 sent John 19 a copy of his Metrical Life of Cuthbert