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Vita Willibrordi archiepiscopi Traiectensis (796 - 800) Alcuin of York |
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Fuit in Brittannia insula, provintia Northanhumbrana, quidam pater familias genere Saxo et nomine Wilgils, relegiosam in Christo cum coniuge et omni domu sua, sicut post signis patefactum est, vitam agens. (...) Nec confluentes cessabat ad se turbas suavissima verbi Dei ammonitione cohortare, sed et illius gentis regi et optimatibus honorabilis effectus est, in tantum, ut ei aliquas terrarum possessiunculas illis promontoriis adiacentes ad aedificandam Deo ecclesiam dono perpetuo contulerunt; in qua pius pater modicam quidem, sed honestam Deo servientium adunavit congregationem, in qua et post multiplices sancti laboris agones a Deo coronatus corpore requiescit, et posteri eius usque hodie ex sanctitatis eius traditione possident. |
| Translation |
There was in the island of Britain, in the province of Northurnbria, a certain householder of Saxon descent, whose name was Wilgils, living a devout Christian life together with his wife and family. (...) People flocked to him in great numbers, and when they did so he never failed to instruct them with sound advice and the Word of God .
He was held in such high esteem by the king and the nobles of that nation that they made over to him, in perpetual gift, a number of small landed properties that lie near those headlands for the purpose of building there a church to God. In this church the reverend father gathered together a rather small but devout company of those who wished to sene God, and there also, after the many trials of his spiritual labours, going to his reward, his body lies at rest. His successors, who still follow the example of his holiness, are in possession of this church to the present day. (Trans. Grieve) |
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1 (p. 116) |
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640 - 670 |
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