Source: Textual EditionFelix.VitGuthlaci

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Author Felix
Source Title Life of Saint Guthlac
Language Latin

Notes

All forms of names are based on what @Colgrave 1956, p. 52, describes as his 'reconstructive' text. No attempt has been made to record the name variants found within the various manuscripts of Felix.VitGuth.

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  Prol. (pp. 60, 62, 64) Felix 3 wrote the life of Guthlac 2 and presented it publicly in the form of a little book.
2 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  4-9 A hand was seen by crowds (Anonymi 250) stretching from the heavens to a cross before the house where Guthlac 2 was being born.
3 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  10-11 Guthlac 2 was baptized at a font and received his name.
4 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  16-18 Guthlac 2 with his retinue (Anonymi 253) attacked settlements, took booty and overcame enemies.
5 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  18-19 Overnight Guthlac 2 vowed to become a servant of Christ.
6 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  19 Disregarding his parents (Penwealh 1 and Tette 1), his fatherland and the companions of his youth (Anonymi 245), Guthlac 2 gave up secular ostentation and trusted in Christ.
7 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  20 Leaving all behind, Guthlac 2 journeyed to the monasterium of Repton.
8 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  20 Guthlac 2 received the tonsure of St Peter under the abbess Ælfthryth 1.
9 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  20 After Guthlac 2 had been tonsured he assumed clerical garb and strove to expiate his past sins.
10 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  20-1 After receiving the tonsure Guthlac 2 abstained from intoxicating liquor.
11 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  21 The brethren (Anonymi 246) hated Guthlac 2 for his abstention from liquor but afterwards showed affection for him because of his character.
12 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  24-5 With the support of the elders [of the monasterium at Repton] (Anonymi 256), Guthlac 2 set out to find a solitary place in the fen near Cambridge.
13 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  26 After exploring the island of Crowland, Guthlac 2 returned to Repton to greet the congregation there (Anonymi 246 15).
14 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  26-7 Guthlac 2 returned to Crowland with two boys (Anonymi 258).
15 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  28 Guthlac 2 adopted the life of a solitary at Crowland.
16 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  29 Guthlac 2 had a vision of St Bartholomew, who dispelled his despair.
17 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  30 Guthlac 2 had a vision of two devils.
18 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  31-3 Guthlac 2 had a vision of Hell.
19 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  34 Guthlac 2 had a vision of Britons lifting him up on the points of their spears.
20 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  35 Beccel 1 decided to kill Guthlac 2, who perceived this but forgave Beccel 1 when the latter confessed.
21 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  35 Beccel 1 came to tonsure Guthlac 2 as he was accustomed to do every twenty days.
22 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  36 Guthlac 2 had a vision of wild beasts.
23 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  37 A servant of God (Anonymous 90) came to visit Guthlac 2.
24 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  37 A corvid stole a document from the house where a guest of Guthlac 2 (Anonymous 90) was staying. With the help of Guthlac 2 the man (Anonymous 90) recovered the document.
25 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  38 Two corvids used to enter houses and steal and damage things, which Guthlac 2 bore with patience as an example to men, birds and animals.
26 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  38 The birds of the untamed solitude and the fish would come at the sound of the voice of Guthlac 2.
27 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  39 Guthlac 2 was friendly with two swallows.
28 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  40 Æthelbald 4 visited Guthlac 2 accompanied by Wilfrid 8.
29 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  40 Guthlac 2 foresaw the return of a pair of gloves belonging to Wilfrid 8.
30 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  40 Three brethren (Anonymi 259) arrived on Guthlac 2's island. He welcomed them with cheerful countenance.
31 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  41 Hwætred 1 suffered madness for four years.
32 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  41 Hwætred 1 killed three people from a crowd who had assembled (Anonymi 261) to try to bind him because of his madness.
33 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  41 The parents of Hwætred 1 (Anonymi 260) sought healing for him at the holy places of the saints.
34 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  41 Hwætred 1 was brought to Crowland by his parents (Anonymi 260) and healed by Guthlac 2.
35 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  42 Ecga 1 went mad and lost his powers of speech and thought.
36 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  42 Brought by relatives (Anonymi 263) to Guthlac 2, Ecga 1 was healed by the saint's girdle.
37 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  43 Guthlac 2 began to prophesy and tell of events at which he was not present.
38 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  43 An abbot (Anonymous 87) visited Guthlac 2 as he was accustomed to do.
39 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  43 Guthlac 2 told a visiting abbot (Anonymous 87) where his ministering clerics (Anonymi 248) were.
40 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  43 Two clerics (Anonymi 248) who were to accompany their abbot (Anonymous 87) to Guthlac 2 visited a widow (Anonymi 248 7) instead.
41 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  43 When the abbot (Anonymous 87) returned home from visiting Guthlac 2, he challenged his two minstering clerics (Anonymi 248) as to where they had been.
42 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  44 Guthlac 2 asked two brethren (Anonymi 265) why they had each buried two flasks of beer before they visited him.
43 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  45 Many people (Anonymi 266), hearing of the miracles of Guthlac 2, sought and received healing from him.
44 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  45 Guthlac 2 healed the swollen foot of Ofa 5.
45 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  46-7 Hædde 2 came with his retinue (Anonymi 268) to speak with Guthlac 2.
46 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  46 Wigfrith 1 claimed to have lived amongst the Scotti (Anonymi 276).
47 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  47 Hædde 2 consecrated the church [at Crowland] and island of Crowland.
48 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  47 Hædde 2 ordained Guthlac 2 as a priest.
49 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  46-7 After Wigfrith 1 had claimed to the retinue of Hædde 2 (Anonymi 268) that he could assess the sanctity of Guthlac 2, the latter asked Wigfrith 1 for his judgment. Wigfrith 1 then asked forgiveness and admitted his sin.
50 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  48 Ecgburg 1 sent a coffin with a linen cloth to Guthlac 2 and asked who was to succeed him.
51 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  49 While in exile and harassed by Ceolred 1, Æthelbald 4 visited Guthlac 2.
52 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  49 Guthlac 2 prophesied to Æthelbald 4 that he would rule his people, conquer his enemies and gain their possessions.
53 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  49 Events unfolded for Æthelbald 4 in the order and manner foretold by Guthlac 2.
54 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 Guthlac 2 was taken ill and died on the eighth day after this.
55 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (pp. 152, 154) Beccel 1 came to Guthlac 2 on the first day the latter fell ill and asked him questions.
56 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 Guthlac 2 twice predicted the day of his death.
57 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (pp. 154, 156)b Guthlac 2 declared his last wishes to Beccel 1.
58 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (p. 158) Beccel 1 saw visions of light on the night before Guthlac 2 died and at the time of his death.
59 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (pp. 158, 160) Beccel 1 travelled to Pega 1 and recounted to her the last commands of Guthlac 2.
60 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (p. 160) Pega 1 returned with Beccel 1 to Crowland.
61 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (p. 160) Pega 1 buried Guthlac 2.
62 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  51 Pega 1 decided to translate the body of Guthlac 2 and had him exhumed.
63 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  51 Pega 1 translated the body of Guthlac 2 to a tomb.
64 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  51 Æthelbald 4 erected ornamented structures around the tomb of Guthlac 2.
65 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  52 Æthelbald 4 visited the burial place of Guthlac 2.
66 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  52 Æthelbald 4 had a vision of Guthlac 2, who foretold that he would gain the throne.
67 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  52 Food arrived at Crowland for those dwelling there (Anonymi 271) as prophesied by Guthlac 2.
68 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  53 A blind man (Anonymous 88) travelled with his friends (Anonymi 273) to Crowland to seek the healing of his blindness.
69 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  53 A father of a family (Anonymous 88) regained his sight at Crowland.
70 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  53 Anonymous 88 returned home able to see.
71 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  34 The Britons (Anonymi 241) were troubling the English (Anonymi 242) with wars, raids and open devastations.
72 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  28 which he heard from Wilfrid and Cissan
73 Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  28 which he heard from Wilfrid 8 and Cissa 2