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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 23
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BEDE, VITA S. CUDBERCTI, CHAP. VI ; IN ENGL. His. Soc.'s
EDITION, VOL. II, PP. 59-61.
What manner of testimony the holy man Boisil prophesied
in the spirit concerning [Cuthbert] when he came to the monas-
tery.
Meanwhile the venerable servant of the Lord left behind
the things of the world, and hastened to undergo monastic
discipline, as being incited by the heavenly vision l to seek
after the joys of eternal bliss, to endure for the Lord temporal
hunger and thirst, being invited to the heavenly banquets.
And while he knew that the church of Lindisfarne had
many holy men by whose teaching and example he could be
instructed, yet he was prevented by the renown of Boisil,
a monk and priest of lofty virtues, and preferred to go to
Melrose. And by accident it chanced that when upon his
arrival there he had leapt from his horse and, before entering
the church to pray, had given to the attendant both the horse
and the spear which he held in his hand, (for not yet had he
laid aside the secular habit,) Boisil himself, standing before
the doors of the monastery, saw him first. Foreseeing in the
spirit how great in his manner of life he whom he beheld
"
would be, he said this one word to those standing by, Behold
a servant of God " ; imitating him who perceived Nathaniel
coming to him, and said, " Behold a man of Israel, in whom
is no guile." Thus is Sigfrid wont to declare, a religious and
aged servant of God and priest, who among others stood
beside Boisil when he said these words at that time a ;
youth
in that monastery, instructed as yet in the first rudiments
only of monastic life, but now leading his life as a perfect man
in Christ in our monastery, that is, of Jarrow, and in the
painful breathings of his last spirit thirsting for the joyful
entry into the other life.
Saying no more, Boisil received Cuthbert kindly, when
presently he came to him and when ;
[Cuthbert] explained
the cause of his journey, that he preferred the monastery
to the world, [Boisil] kindly kept him with him. For he
was prior of that monastery.
And after a few days, upon the arrival of Eata, a man of
1 " On the mountains near the river which is called Leader," where he
tended his master's sheep, Cuthbert had a vision of Aidan's soul being conducted
to heaven ; Anon. Life of St. C., E.H.S. ed. of Bede, ii, 262-263.
Cf. Bede, V.S.C., IV, ibid., 55-56.; Metr. Life, IV, ibid., 7-8. S. of D.,
H.D.E., i, 21-22.