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FROM ENGLISH CHRONICLERS 33
And this they say that Golman, when about to depart, had
asked and obtained of King Oswy, because this Eata was
one of Aidan's twelve boys of Anglian race whom he had
received to train up in Christ, in the first period of his episcopate.
1 For the king much loved this bishop Colman, for
the prudence natural to him.
Eata is he who not long afterwards was made bishop of
the same church of Lindisfarne.
Now when Colman went home he took with him part of
the bones of the most reverend father Aidan ; but part he
left in the church which he had ruled, directing that they
should be buried in the sacristy. 2
And of how great frugality and of what continence were
Colman and his predecessors, even the place which they ruled
bore testimony. For when they departed very few houses
were found there, excepting the church ; that is, those only
without which social intercourse could not exist at all. 3
Apart
from flocks they had no moneys. For if they received any
money from the rich, they gave it straightway to the poor.
For it was not necessary either that moneys should be
where the waves of swelling ocean might
surround me on all sides from both
the sight and the knowledge of all mortal men " ; V.S.C., VIII, u.s., 66. Cf.
V.S.C., XXII, u.s. 93.
Anon.
Cuthbert was against his will elected bishop of Hexham in 684 ;
Life, 28, u.s., 274. Bede, V.S.C., XXIV, u.s., 97-98 ; H.E., IV, 28 ; i, 272.
He was consecrated on the 26th March, 685, and transferred to Lindisfarne,
changing places with Eata ; V.S.C., u.s. ; H.E., u.s., 273.
He died in 687, March 20, V.S.C., XXXVII, XXXIX, u.s., 116-118,
123-125 ; H.E., IV, 29, i, 275. His body was still incorrupt in 698 ; Anon.
Life, 42, u.s., 282; Bede, V.S.C., XLII, u.s., 129 ; Chron., E.H.S.ed., ii, 200-
201 ; H.E., IV, 30, i, 276. So still in 1104, when transferred to the new
cathedral at Durham ; De Mir. et Tr. S.C., in S. of D., i, 247-259 ; on which
occasion " Alexander, brother of Edgar, king of Scots, shortly afterwards
to be his brother's successor in the kingdom," was one of the witnesses ;
ibid., 258. Nevertheless, that this was a prolonged and impious fraud is
shown by Raine's description of the investigation in 1827 into the condition
of Cuthbert's remains ; Saint Cuthbert, 184-228. The fraud made an
extremely successful advertisement.
1 So the life of Eata, in Raine's Hexh., i, 213: "For the Scots also
greatly revered this abbot Eata, because he was, as has been said above,
one of bishop Aidan's twelve boys." Eata died 685 x 687 ; Bede, H.E., V,
2 ; i, 282-283 ; ii, 273.
2 When the monks took up the body of Cuthbert and fled from Lindisfarne
through fear of Halfdane, they carried with them Aidan's remains also ;
S. of
"
D., H.D.E., II, 6 ; i, 57 :
. . . and in a compartment of the same
reliquary were placed (as we find in old books) the relics of the saints, namely
. . and part of the bones of St.
the head of the king and . martyr Oswald,
Aidan also, (for, as has been said above, Colman had carried with him the
other part when he returned to Scotland.) ..."
W. of M., G.P., 198 ; G.R., i, 56, falsely asserts that his relics were
brought to Glastonbury.
3
conversatio civilis esse nullatenus poterat.