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Author Anonymous
Source Title Old English Martyrology
Date of composition ?Ninth century
Language Old English / Mercian

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to Das altenglische Martyrologium Kotzor, Günter Das altenglische Martyrologium Munich 1981 1-266

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Herzfeld, George An Old English Martyrology: Re-edited from Manuscripts in the Libraries of the British Museum and of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge London 1900 3-223

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event OEMart  94 Eadberht 3 gave up the ghost forty-seven days [after he had predicted another blessed man would rest in the place where Cuthbert 1's body had been exhumed].
2 Event OEMart  94 His [sc. Eadberht 3's] body was placed in the same spot where St Cuthbert 1's body rested earlier.
3 Event OEMart  264 Bede 1 wrote that Hygebald 2 was of a holy and pure life.
4 Event OEMart  264 The body of Hygebald 2 rested in the province of Lindsey.
5 Event OEMart  27 The body of the bishop [sc. Chad 1] rested at Lichfield in the minster.
6 Event OEMart  264 Hygebald 2 died on the fourteenth day of the month [of December].
7 Event OEMart  253 Bregoswith 1 had a revelation while asleep of a jewel that shone over all of Britain.
8 Event OEMart  253 Anonymous 257 saw angels leading the spirit of Hild 1 to heaven.
9 Event OEMart  252 Hild 1 was the first builder of the mynster called Steorneshealh.
10 Event OEMart  239 The body of Cedd 1 rested near the northern boundary in the mynster at Lastingham.
11 Event OEMart  252 Hild 1 died on the seventeenth day of the month [of November].
12 Event OEMart  239 A holy man (Ecgberht 2) saw Ceadwalla (Cedd 1) lead the soul of Chad 1 with the angels to heaven.
13 Event OEMart  226 Hewald 1 and Hewald 2 instructed them [sc. the Frisians (Anonymi 1277)] in the belief in God.
14 Event OEMart  228 A woman (Anonymous 460) saw the soul of Æthelburg 3 being drawn to heaven by golden chains.
15 Event OEMart  239 Cedd 1 (Ceadwalla) died on the twenty-sixth day of the month [of October].
16 Event OEMart  228 Æthelburg 3 established a mynster for women in Britain called Barking.
17 Event OEMart  220 Ceolfrith 1's group of companions (Anonymi 1288) divided into three.
18 Event OEMart  225-6 The martyrdom of Hewald 1 and Hewald 2 was on the third day of the month [of October].
19 Event OEMart  228 Æthelburg 3 died on the eleventh day of the month [of October].
20 Event OEMart  225-6 Hewald 1 and Hewald 2 went from Britain east across the sea to the Frisians (Anonymi 1277).
21 Event OEMart  219-20 Ceolfrith 1 was honourably buried in the church of the Holy Twins with much weeping from Anonymi 1288 and Anonymi 1289.
22 Event OEMart  219 Ceolfrith 1 died aged 74, 114 days after he left the mynster.
23 Event OEMart  219 Ceolfrith 1 told the brethren of the minster (Anonymi 1287) of his journey three days before he left.
24 Event OEMart  219 Ceolfrith 1 was at sea for one day.
25 Event OEMart  195-6 Half the bones of Aidan 1 were among the Irish (Anonymi 1279), half in Glastonbury at St Mary mynster.
26 Event OEMart  219 Ceolfrith 1 began to go to Rome.
27 Event OEMart  219 Ceolfrith 1 sang his psalter and mass twice a day except for the one day he was at sea and the three days before his death.
28 Event OEMart  219 Ceolfrith 1 was commemorated on the twenty-fifth day of the month [of September].
29 Event OEMart  195 Aidan 1 performed many miracles, both when he was alive and after his death.
30 Event OEMart  195 Oswald 1 brought Aidan 1 to this country [sc. England].
31 Event OEMart  172 Many were Oswald 1's miracles both on this side of the sea and beyond.
32 Event OEMart  195 Cuthbert 1 saw at midnight angels lead in great light the soul of Aidan 1 to heaven.
33 Event OEMart  195 Aidan 1 died on the thirty-first day of the month [of August].
34 Event OEMart  171-2 Oswald 1's relics were located in various places.
35 Event OEMart  171 Oswald 1 ended his life in prayer when he was slain.
36 Event OEMart  171 Four peoples who were in Britain were made subject to Oswald 1: the British, Picts, Irish and English (Anonymi 1278).
37 Event OEMart  129 On exhumation Æthelthryth 2's body was found incorrupt.
38 Event OEMart  171 The festival of Oswald 1 was on the fifth day of the month [of August].
39 Event OEMart  128 Æthelthryth 2 received the veil at Coldingham.
40 Event OEMart  129 Through God's grace Æthelthryth 2 foresaw when she was going to die.
41 Event OEMart  128 Æthelthryth 2 built a mynster for women at Ely.
42 Event OEMart  129 Æthelthryth 2 was buried in the earth for sixteen years.
43 Event OEMart  109 Augustine 1 gave sight to a blind man (Anonymous 223) through a miracle.
44 Event OEMart  127 Æthelthryth 2 died on the twenty-third day of the month [of June].
45 Event OEMart  128 Æthelthryth 2 was first married to Tondberht 1.
46 Event OEMart  109 Augustine 1 first brought baptism in Britain to the English people.
47 Event OEMart  128 Æthelthryth 2 was given to Ecgfrith 4 as queen because she was the daughter of Anna 1.
48 Event OEMart  109 Augustine 1 was commemorated on the twenty-sixth day of the month [of May].
49 Event OEMart  94 John 18 caused a dumb man (Anonymous 365) to speak.
50 Event OEMart  11 Gregory 1 sent baptism to us [sc. to the English].
51 Event OEMart  92 After being given the burial shroud of Cuthbert 1 and kissing it, Eadberht 3 prophesied that the spot where Cuthbert 1 rested would soon be filled with another very happy man.
52 Event OEMart  94 John 18 died on the seventh day of the month [of May].
53 Event OEMart  90, 92 The monks of Lindisfarne (Anonymi 1285) exhumed the body of Cuthbert 1.
54 Event OEMart  90 Eadberht 3 always lived in prayer and spiritual exercises in a secret place surrounded by the sea during the forty days before Easter and Christmas.
55 Event OEMart  90, 92 Eadberht 3 died on the sixth day of the month [of May], forty-seven days after he became ill.
56 Event OEMart  63 St Michael appeared to Wilfrid 2 separately and told him how acceptable his deeds were and how long his life would be.
57 Event OEMart  62-3 Anonymi 1284 attempted to douse an apparent fire in the house where Wilfrid 2 was born.
58 Event OEMart  62-3 At the birth of Wilfrid 2 the house in which he was born appeared to be on fire.
59 Event OEMart  62-3 Wilfrid 2 died on the twenty-fourth day of the month [of April].
60 Event OEMart  58 When speaking to a disciple (Anonymous 457), Æthelwald 8 stopped, as if he were listening.
61 Event OEMart  58 Æthelwald 8 occupied the hermitage at Farne Island for twelve years as the first person after Cuthbert 1.
62 Event OEMart  58 Æthelwald 8 died on the twenty-first day of the month after he had dwelt in the hermitage on Farne Island for twelve years.
63 Event OEMart  53 A year after Guthlac 2 began dwelling at the hermitage, an angel of God came to speak with him each evening and again in the morning and told him heavenly mysteries.
64 Event OEMart  52-3 The body of Guthlac 2 rested at Croyland.
65 Event OEMart  53 Men (Anonymi 1283) saw a beautiful hand from heaven mark the door of the house where Guthlac 2 was born and then return to heaven.
66 Event OEMart  52 Guthlac 2 died on the eleventh day of the month [of April].
67 Event OEMart  37 Cuthbert 1 blessed some water which was perceived to taste like wine.
68 Event OEMart  37 Cuthbert 1 was dining at the mynster of a certain noble abbess (Anonymous 453).
69 Event OEMart  36 Cuthbert 1 died on 20 March.
70 Event OEMart  32 A servant of Gregory 1 (Anonymous 452) saw a white dove from heaven sit on Gregory 1's head and breathe divine wisdom into his mouth.
71 Event OEMart  32 Gregory 1 interceded with his tears and prayers for the soul of Trajan, the heathen emperor, so that God freed the latter from hell and led him to rest.
72 Event OEMart  32 Gregory 1 sent baptism to Britain.
73 Event OEMart  32 Gregory 1 died on the twelfth day of the month.
74 Event OEMart  30 Eosterwine 1 sat out in the sun and gave the kiss of peace to all his weeping and mourning brethren (Anonymi 1280).
75 Event OEMart  30 Eosterwine 1 displayed his humility by engaging in various agricultural duties.
76 Event OEMart  30 After being a thegn of King Ecgfrith 4, Eosterwine 1 entered into a mynster.
77 Event OEMart  30 Eosterwine 1 died.
78 Event OEMart  27 Ecgberht 2 saw the soul of Cedd 1 with a band of angels leading the soul of his brother [sc. Chad 1] to heaven.
79 Event OEMart  27 Ecgberht 2 reported to Hygebald 2 his vision of the soul of Chad 1 being led to heaven by the soul of his brother [sc. Cedd 1] with a band of angels.
80 Event OEMart  27 Owine 1 heard the joyful song of the angels who openly led Chad 1 to heaven.
81 Event OEMart  27 The archbishop (Theodore 1) sent Chad 1 from the mynster at Lastingham to the Mercians, Middle Angles and those in Lindsey (Anonymi 1290) as bishop.
82 Event OEMart  27 Bede 1 wrote about the miracles and life of Chad 1 in the books of the English.