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The Magic of Saint Oswald

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Wilfrid Bonser
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Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 36 , December 1935 , pp. 418 - 423
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1935

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1 Details given by Bede in his Ecclesiastical History, book III, chapters 1-13.

2 A similar story is told by Bede (E.H. III, 17) in connexion with Aidan. He died leaning against the post used to strengthen the wall of a church. Later the church was burned by Penda, but the post ‘could not be consumed by the fire which consumed all about it’. The church was ‘rebuilt in the same place, and that very post was set up on the outside, as it had been before, to strengthen the wall . . . And it is manifest that since then many have been healed in that same place, as also that chips being cut off from that post, and put into water, have healed many from their distempers’.

3 Similarly with the earth where Aldhelm died : see Bede, E.H. V, 18.

4 This is the usual method of revelation of relics and holy things.

5 Simeon of Durham, ‘History of the kings of England’, under date 774, and again in his history of the church of Durham, chap. 2.

6 See Wall, J.C., Shrines of British Saints (Antiquary’s Books, 1905)’ pp. 206–7Google Scholar. The statue of Cuthbert in Henry VII’S chapel at Westminster represents him as carrying the crowned head of Oswald in his left hand.

7 Hugo Candidus, p. 34, in ‘Historiae Coenobii Burgensis scriptores varii’ (ed. Sparke, 1723).

8 Hugo Candidus, p. 50.

9 Ibid., pp. 77-8.

10 ‘Brachium Sancti Oswaldi coopertum foliis argentiis, praeter manum’.-We Sparrow Simpson, ‘Two inventories of the cathedral church of St. Paul, London’. (Archaeologia, 1887, vol. 50, p. 470).

11 Bede, E.H. 3, 13.Google Scholar