Stelle Haec coram omni populo more Romanor...; (Vita Wilfridi (709 - 720), ch. 54 (p. 112-14)) [45]

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Keywords	Ethnonym: Angli, [wurzel: Angl] Keyword: apostolica sedes, [wurzel: apostolic sed] Region: Britannia, [wurzel: Brittanni] Ethnonym: Brittones, [wurzel: britton] Keyword: catholici, [wurzel: catholic] Keyword: civis Romanus, [wurzel: civ* Roman*] Keyword: episcopus, [wurzel: episcop] Region: Hibernia, [wurzel: Hiberni] Keyword: mos Romanus, [wurzel: mor + Romanorum] Ethnonym: Picti, [wurzel: pict] Keyword: populus, [wurzel: popul] Ethnonym: Scotti, [wurzel: scott]
ID	45
Text	Vita Wilfridi (709 - 720) Stephen of Ripon
Quotation	Haec coram omni populo more Romanorum clara voce legebatur, in qua scriptura inventum est inter cetera: Wilfrithus Deo amabilis episcopus Eboracae civitatis, apostolicam sedem de sua causa appellantem et ab hac potestate de certis incertisque rebus absolutum et cum aliis CXXV coepiscopis in synodo in iudicii sede constitutum et pro omni aquilonali parte Brittanniae et Hiberniae insulisque quae ab Anglorum et Brittonum necnon Scottorum et Pictorum gentibus colebantur, veram et catholicam confessus fidem et cum subscriptione sua corroboravit. Itaque, quo audito, omnes cives Romani sapientes stupefacti sunt. Tunc Bonifatius et Siszentius et alii nonnulli, qui eum in diebus beatae memoriae Agathonis agnoscentes viderunt, dicebant, istum esse praesentem Deo amabilem Wilfridum episcopum, quem beatissimus Agatho purificatum de accusationibus, apostolica auctoritate absolutum, olim ad propria remisit, et iterum nuncve - pro dolor! - infestatorum insidiae exorbitare de propria sede fecerunt.
Translation	Now this document was being read out in a loud voice before all the people after the Roman custom, and in it there occurred among other things these words: "Wilfrid, Bishop of York, beloved of God, appealing to the Apostolic See about his cause, and absolved by its power from definite and indefinite charges, and with 125 other bishops called together in synod set in the seat of judgment, confessed the true and catholic faith for all the northern part of Britain and Ireland and the islands, which are inhabited by the races of Angles and Britons as well as Scots and Picts, and corroborated it with his signature." When they had heard these things all the wise citizens of Rome were amazed. Then Boniface and Sizentius and some others, who had known and seen him in the days of Agatho of blessed memory, said that "this same Bishop Wilfrid beloved of God was now present with them, whom the most blessed Agatho had formerly sent to his own home, purified and absolved from all the charges of his adver- saries by Apostolic authority; and now once again, alas! the plots of his enemies had made him wander from his own see. (Trans. Colgrave, p. 115)
Quotation source	ch. 54 (p. 112-14)
Temporal Coverage	704 - 704
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