Chapter III: Book III

Chap. I. How King Edwin’s next successors lost both the faith of their
nation and the kingdom; but the most Christian King Oswald retrieved
both. [633 A.D.]
Chap. II. How, among innumerable other miracles of healing wrought by
the wood of the cross, which King Oswald, being ready to engage against
the barbarians, erected, a certain man had his injured arm healed. [634
A.D.]
Chap. III. How the same king Oswald, asking a bishop of the Scottish
nation, had Aidan sent him, and granted him an episcopal see in the
Isle of Lindisfarne. [635 A.D.]
Chap. IV. When the nation of the Picts received the faith of Christ.
[565 A.D.]
Chap. V. Of the life of Bishop Aidan. [635 A.D.]
Chap. VI. Of King Oswald’s wonderful piety and religion. [635-642 A.D.]
Chap. VII. How the West Saxons received the Word of God by the
preaching of Birinus; and of his successors, Agilbert and Leutherius.
[635-670 A.D.]
Chap. VIII. How Earconbert, King of Kent, ordered the idols to be
destroyed; and of his daughter Earcongota, and his kinswoman Ethelberg,
virgins consecrated to God. [640 A.D.]
Chap. IX. How miracles of healing have been frequently wrought in the
place where King Oswald was killed; and how, first, a traveller’s horse
was restored and afterwards a young girl cured of the palsy. [642 A.D.]
Chap. X. How the dust of that place prevailed against fire. [After 642
A.D.]
Chap. XI. How a light from Heaven stood all night over his relics, and
how those possessed with devils were healed by them. [679-697 A.D.]
Chap. XII. How a little boy was cured of a fever at his tomb.
Chap. XIII. How a certain person in Ireland was restored, when at the
point of death, by his relics.
Chap. XIV. How on the death of Paulinus, Ithamar was made bishop of
Rochester in his stead; and of the wonderful humility of King Oswin,
who was cruelly slain by Oswy. [644-651 A.D.]
Chap. XV. How Bishop Aidan foretold to certain seamen that a storm
would arise, and gave them some holy oil to calm it. [Between 642 and
645 A.D.]
Chap. XVI. How the same Aidan, by his prayers, saved the royal city
when it was fired by the enemy [Before 651 A.D.]
Chap. XVII. How a prop of the church on which Bishop Aidan was leaning
when he died, could not be consumed when the rest of the Church was on
fire; and concerning his inward life. [651 A.D.]
Chap. XVIII. Of the life and death of the religious King Sigbert.
[_Circ._ 631 A.D.]
Chap. XIX. How Fursa built a monastery among the East Angles, and of
his visions and sanctity, to which, his flesh remaining uncorrupted
after death bore testimony. [_Circ._ 633 A.D.]
Chap. XX. How, when Honorius died, Deusdedit became Archbishop of
Canterbury; and of those who were at that time bishops of the East
Angles, and of the church of Rochester. [653 A.D.]
Chap. XXI. How the province of the Midland Angles became Christian
under King Peada. [653 A.D.]
Chap. XXII. How under King Sigbert, through the preaching of Cedd, the
East Saxons again received the faith, which they had before cast off.
[653 A.D.]
Chap. XXIII. How Bishop Cedd, having a place for building a monastery
given him by King Ethelwald, consecrated it to the Lord with prayer and
fasting; and concerning his death. [659-664 A.D.]
Chap. XXIV. How when King Penda was slain, the province of the Mercians
received the faith of Christ, and Oswy gave possessions and territories
to God, for building monasteries, as a thank offering for the victory
obtained. [655 A.D.]
Chap. XXV. How the question arose about the due time of keeping Easter,
with those that came out of Scotland. [664 A.D.]
Chap. XXVI. How Colman, being worsted, returned home; and Tuda
succeeded him in the bishopric; and of the state of the church under
those teachers. [664 A.D.]
Chap. XXVII. How Egbert, a holy man of the English nation, led a
monastic life in Ireland. [664 A.D.]
Chap. XXVIII. How, when Tuda was dead, Wilfrid was ordained, in Gaul,
and Ceadda, among the West Saxons, to be bishops for the province of
the Northumbrians. [664 A.D.]
Chap. XXIX. How the priest Wighard was sent from Britain to Rome, to be
ordained archbishop; of his death there, and of the letters of the
Apostolic Pope giving an account thereof. [667 A.D.]
Chap. XXX. How the East Saxons, during a pestilence, returned to
idolatry, but were soon brought back from their error by the zeal of
Bishop Jaruman. [665 A.D.]