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Baptism alone the entrance into the heavenly life is opened to mankind; and he hoped at the same
time, that being made clean by Baptism, he should soon be freed from the bonds of the flesh and
pass to the eternal joys of Heaven; both which things, by the help of the Lord, came to pass according
as he had conceived in his mind. For coming to Rome, at the time that Sergius was pope, he was
baptized on the Holy Saturday before Easter Day, in the year of our Lord 689, and being still in his
white garments, he fell sick, and was set free from the bonds of the flesh on the 20th of April, and
obtained an entrance into the kingdom of the blessed in Heaven. At his baptism, the aforesaid pope
had given him the name of Peter, to the end, that he might be also united in name to the most blessed
chief of the Apostles, to whose most holy body his pious love had led him from the utmost bounds
of the earth. He was likewise buried in his church, and by the pope s command an epitaph was
written on his tomb, wherein the memory of his devotion might be preserved for ever, and the
readers or hearers thereof might be stirred up to give themselves to religion by the example of what
he had done.
The epitaph was this : "High estate, wealth, offspring, a mighty kingdom, triumphs, spoils,
chieftains, strongholds, the camp, a home; whatsoever the valour of his sires, whatsoever himself
had won, Caedwal, mighty in war, left for the love of God, that, a pilgrim king, he might behold,
Peter and Peter s seat, receive at his font pure waters of life, and in bright draughts drink of the
shining radiance whence a quickening glory streams through all the world. And even as he gained
with eager soul the prize of the new life, he laid aside barbaric rage, and, changed in heart, he
changed his name with joy. Sergius the Pope bade him be called Peter, himself his father, when he
rose born anew from the font, and the grace of Christ, cleansing him, bore him forthwith clothed
in white raiment to the heights of Heaven. wondrous faith of the king, but greatest of all the mercy
of Christ, into whose counsels none may enter! For he came in safety from the ends of the earth,
even from Britain, through many a nation, over many a sea, by many a path, and saw the city of
Romulus and looked upon Peter s sanctuary revered, bearing mystic gifts. He shall walk in white
among the sheep of Christ in fellowship with them; for his body is in the tomb, but his soul on high.
Thou mightest deem he did but change an earthly for a heavenly sceptre, whom thou seest attain
to the kingdom of Christ."
"Here was buried Caedwalla, called also Peter, king of the Saxons, on the twentieth day of
April, in the second indiction, aged about thirty years, in the reign of our most pious lord, the
Emperor Justinian, in the fourth year of his consulship, in the second year of the pontificate of our
Apostolic lord, Pope Sergius."
167
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England The Venerable Bede
When Caedwalla went to Rome, Ini succeeded to the kingdom, being of the blood royal; and
having reigned thirty-seven years over that nation, he in like manner left his kingdom and committed
it to younger men, and went away to the threshold of the blessed Apostles, at the time when Gregory
was pope, being desirous to spend some part of his pilgrimage upon earth in the neighbourhood of
the holy places, that he might obtain to be more readily received into the fellowship of the saints
in heaven. This same thing, about that time, was wont to be done most zealously by many of the
English nation, nobles and commons, laity and clergy, men and women,
CHAP. VIII. How, when Archbishop Theodore died, Bertwald succeeded him as archbishop,
and, among many others whom he ordained, he made the learned Tobias bishop of the church
of Rochester. [690 A. D.]
THE year after that in which Caedwalla died at Rome, that is, 690 after the Incarnation of our
Lord, Archbishop Theodore, of blessed memory, departed this life, being old and full of days, for
he was eighty-eight years of age; which number of years he had been wont long before to foretell
to his friends that he should live, the same having been revealed to him in a dream. He held the
bishopric twenty-two years, and was buried in St. Peter s church, where all the bodies of the bishops
of Canterbury are buried. Of whom, as well as of his fellows of the same degree, it may rightly and
truly be said, that their bodies are buried in peace, and their names shall live to all generations. For
to say all in few words, the English Churches gained more spiritual increase while he was archbishop,
than ever before. His character, life, age, and death, are plainly and manifestly described to all that
resort thither, by the epitaph on his tomb, in thirty-four heroic verses. The first whereof are these:
"Here in the tomb rests the body of the holy prelate, called now in the Greek tongue Theodore.
Chief pontiff, blest high priest, pure doctrine he set forth to his disciples."
The last are as follows:
"For September had reached its nineteenth day, when his spirit went forth from the prison-bars
of the flesh. Mounting in bliss to the gracious fellowship of the new life, he was united to the angelic
citizens in the heights of Heaven."
Bertwald succeeded Theodore in the archbishopric, being abbot of the monastery called Racuulfe, [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]