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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 17;
and
after partaking of very little hastened to
depart with speed, to read with his followers or to pray.
Following his example at that time all the religious
men, and women also made it a custom throughout the whole
year, (excepting the abatement of fifty days after Easter,)
to prolong their fast to the ninth hour on the fourth and
sixth days of the week. 1
Never did he hide from the rich, through respect or fear,
whatever they had done amiss, but corrected them with
sharp rebuke. Never was it his wont to give any money to
the powerful of the world, but only food, if he entertained
them in the hospice but the rather those ; gifts of moneys
which were bestowed upon him by the rich did he either dis-
tribute in benefits to the poor, as we have said, or employ
for the ransom of those who had been unjustly sold. Indeed
many whom he had redeemed for a price, ransomed he afterwards
made his disciples, and advanced by teaching and
training even to the rank of priesthood.
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BEDE, HISTORIA ECCLESIASTTCA, III, 3 ; VOL. I, p. 132. 2
Thenceforward very many began to come to Britain day
by day from the district of the Scots, and to preach the word
of faith with great devotion to those provinces of the Angles
over which Oswald reigned and to administer ; (as many as
were possessed of episcopal rank 3
) the grace of baptism to
the believing. Churches therefore were built throughout the
land, and the people flocked to hear the word, rejoicing ;
and possessions and territories were granted by royal gift
for the establishment of monasteries : along with their parents
the children of the Angles were instructed by the Scots their
teachers in the studies and observance of regular disci-
pline. 4
For they were monks chiefly who had come to preach.
1 The Gaelic names for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday still bear
witness to this custom : they are " day of the first fast," " day between the
two fasts," " day of the fast."
2
Cf. A.S. Vers., i, 158, 160. Cf. S. of D., H.D.E., i, 19-20.
3
Sacerdotali . . . gradu.
4
Cf . the six monasteries founded in Deira, and six in Bernicia ; Bede,
H.E., III, 24 ; i, 178.
"
From the church [of Lindisfarne] all the churches and monasteries of
the province of the Bernicians took their origin," S. of D., H.D.E., i, 7. For
the extent of the diocese in Scotland, cf. S. of D., i, 199 ; infra, ca. a. 830.
note.