Rodoald, king of Lombardy, i. 7. Rodolf, king of Burgundy, i. 22. Rodolf, I., emperor, i. 94. Rodolf II., emperor, i. 94. Rodolf, duke of Transjurane Bur- gundy, ii. 47.
Rodolf III., king of Arles, ii. 51. Rodolfo, bishop of Eugubio, i. 211.
Rodolph, emperor, i. 130.
Roger L, grand count of Sicily, i. 114.
Roger II., count of Sicily, crowned king of the Two Sicilies by the antipope Anacletus II., i. 115. His title confirmed by Innocent II., 117. His death, 118. Rollo, the Dane, duke of Nor. mandy, ti. 47.
Roman jurisprudence, ii. 124. Roncaglia, the diet of, resolutions of, i. 37.
Rosamund, wife of Alboin, her per- fidy and tragical fate, i. 6. Rota, the abbey of, founded in 1096, by Robert of Arbrissel, ii. 291. Rudolf of Hapsburgh, elected em- peror of Germany by letters patent; renounces all claim over nearly all the territories com- prised in the gift of Charlemagne, and the bequest of Matilda; he sanctions the concordat, i. 164. His talents and valour; his war with Ottocar of Bohemia, ii. 112. His death, 113.
Ruined Stone Wall, a Saxon frag. ment, iv. 30.
Sabas Malaspina, i. 251.
Saberct, king of Essex, iii. 158. St. Abelard, abbot of Corbey, ii. 167. Founder of the. New Corbey, in Westphalia, 168.
St. Adalbert, bishop of Prague ; his labours for the reformation of the clergy and their flocks; his moral cowardice; his dislike to Prague, ii. 272. Hit humility while in the palace of Otho III, 273. His dislike to the Bohe- mians; he repairs to Poland, and preaches the Gospel to the pagan Prussians, 274. His murder by a pagan priest, 275.
St. Adelaide, widow of Otho the Great, ii. 51.
St. Ado, archbishop of Vienne, ii.
St. Agobard of Lyons, ii. 254
St. Aidan, a monk of Iona, founder of the see of Lindisfarne; his efforts for the conversion of the Northumbrians, iii. 180.
St. Ailred, the celebrated abbot of Rivaulx, iv. 247. Author of the Lives of St. Edward the Confes- sor, St. David king, and St. Mar- garet queen, of Scotland; his Homilies on Isaiah; his work in three books on Spiritual Friendship, 248. Extract from his Nun of Walton, 249. Ex- tract from his Speculum Chari- tatis, 254.
St. Alcuin, born in 735, extracts from his works; his Farewell to his Cell, iv. 111. His treatise on Dialectics, 130. His treatise De Anima, 131.
St. Aldhelm, an Anglo-Saxon monk, birth of; early education of; the first Englishman who composed Latin verse according to known rules, iv. 75. Elected governor of the monastery of Malmesbury,76. Anecdote of, 77. Nominated to the bishopric of Sherburn; death of, in 709, 78. His works; his style; his work on the dignity of the number seven; his letter to the monks of St. Wilfrid, 80. Ex- tracts from his poem De Laude Virginum, 83. His treatise De Octo Principalibus Vitiis, 92. St. Ambrose, the church of, at Milan; two philosophical schools attached to, in the eleventh cen- tury, i. 234.
St. Ambrose Autpert, author of a commentary on the Apocalypse, ii. 244.
St. Anscar, his character, ii. 207. His mission to Denmark, 209. His mission to Sweden; he falls in with Scandinavian pirates, 210. Return of, to France ; anointed bishop of Hamburg; appointed papal legate, 211. Deprived of the means of support; again applies himself to the northern mission, 212. His death, on the 3d day of February, 865, 215. St. Anselm, born in Italy, in 1033, iv. 150. Becomes prior of Bec; his elevation to the dignity of abbot, 151. Nomination of, to the archbishopric of Canterbury, 152. Proceedings instituted against him in the king's name by the notorious Flambard, 153, He refuses to abjure the autho rity of Pope Urban II.; hostility of the king in consequence, 154. His authority abjured; his letter
to pope Urban on his resolving to leave England, 155. Recall of, on the accession of Henry I., 156. His first interview with Henry I.; he visits Rome, 157. Receives an order to remain in exile until he should sanction the preten- sions of the crown; his recon- ciliation with Henry I., 158. His death, in 1109; his works, 162. A condensed view of his work, De Concordia Præscientiæ et Prædestinationis necnon Gratiæ Dei cum libero Arbitrio, 163. St. Anthelmo, the Carthusian, i. 211
St. Antony of Padua, born at Lis- bon, in 1195; becomes a Francis- can prior; his mission to Africa, i. 308. His doctrine; his preach- ing; his death, on the 13th of June, 1231; two or three samples of the miracles related concerning him, 311.
St. Augustine, arrival of, in Eng- land, iii. 155. His interview with Ethelbert, king of Kent, 156. The archiepiscopal see of Canter- bury, with the primacy, conferred on him by the pope, 157.
two celebrated interviews with the chief ecclesiastics, on the confines of Cheshire and Wales, 159. His correspondence with pope Gregory, 162. Miracles at- tributed to, 165. His death, in 605, 166.
St. Austregesil, bishop of Bourges, extract from his life, ii. 191. St. Avitus, bishop of Vienne, born at Auvergne, celebrated for his defence of the Athanasian creed, ii. 220. His poems, 221. St. Bartholomew, born in the neighbourhood of Whitby, in Yorkshire; vision of, iv. 236. His eremetical life, 238. Miracles as. cribed to, 239.
St. Benedict, the patriarch
monks, born in 480, in the city of Nurcia, i. 180. His parentage, 181. Becomes abbot, 182. An attempt made to poison him, 183. He erects the monastery of Monte Casino; his death, in 543, 184. His famous rule, 185.
St. Benedict of Aniana; his pa- rentage; his austerities, i. 285. He builds a monastery on his He patrimonial estate, 286. founds the monastery of Aix-la- Chapelle, 288.
St. Benedict Biscop, born in Nor- thumbria about the year 630, iii. 194. He founds the monastery
of Wearmouth; he visits Rome five times; he founds the mo- nastery of Jarrow, 195. Death of, in 690, 196.
St. Bernard, his sermon against the Manichæan errors, i. 299.
St. Bernard, born near Dijon, in 1091, ii. 285. The perverse suc- cess of his proselytism, 286. Becomes abbot of Clairvaux; his character, 287. His zeal for the crusade, 288. His death, Au- gust 20., 1158; his personal character; observations on his literary qualifications, 289. St. Bernard, surnamed of Tiron, born in Ponthieu, abbot of St. Cyprian, ii. 292. Persecution of, by the monks of Clugny, 293. Refuses the dignity of cardinal; he founds the monastery of Char- tres, in 1109, 293.
St. Boisil, prior of Melrose, iii. 202. Death of, 203.
St. Boniface, the apostle of Ger- many, a native of Devonshire, ii. 195. Consecrated bishop; his labours in Thuringia for the ex- tinction of idolatry, 196. Ap- pointed archbishop and papal legate; his letters to his friends at Winchester, 197. His policy, 198. His prophetical letter to the priest Fulred, 200. His instruc- tions to St. Lully; his martyrdom, 201.
St. Bruno, a native of Cologne, i 278. Founder of the celebrated order of Carthusians; he founds another monastery in the desert of Calabria: his death, in 1101,280 St. Buonaventura, born in Tuscany, in 1221; his death, i. 218.
St. Burchard, bishop of Wirsburg, ii. 203.
St. Catherine, a Dominician sister, extract from her life, written by her confessor, i. 219. Her im- positions, 220.
St. Cesarius of Arles, born at Châ- lons-sur-Saone, in 470.; receives the tonsure at eighteen; his aus- terities; his preaching; banish- ment of, ii. 224. His treatment of the prisoners after the ineffec- tual siege of Arles, 225. His in- terview in Italy with Theodoric; his death in 543; his sermons; his character as a preacher, 226 An extract from an exhortation of, on the frequent perusal of the Holy Scriptures, 227. His homily on the last judgment, 229. St. Chad, the celebrated bishop of Lichfield, iii. 192,
St. Clair, a native of Assisi; her austerities, i. 217. The order of the rule of, 309.
St. Columba, founder of the mo- nastery of Iona, iii. 179. St. Columbanus, a native of Lein- ster; his future greatness pre- dicted by his mother before his birth; enters the monastery of Bangor, in the county Down, ii. 178. His mission to France, 179. Rigour of his rule; his disputes respecting the time of Easter; pertinacity of his cha- racter, 180. He addresses a letter to the Gallic prelates; his un- compromising hostility to vice, 181. His exile, 182. Anecdote of, 183. Second exile of; he founds the monastery of Bobbio, in Lombardy, 185. His rule; his compositions, 187.
St. Cuthbert, the time and place of the birth of, unknown, iii. 197. Miracles ascribed to, 198. Made prior of Melrose, 202. Made prior of Lindisfarne, 203. Be- comes an anchoret in the island of Farne; his predictions, 204. Consecrated bishop of Hexham, 205. Becomes bishop of Lindis- farne, 206. His dying discourse with Herefrid, abbot of Lindis farne, 207. Fate of his bones, 208.
St. Domingo de Gusman, founder
of the Dominican friars, born in the year 1170, in the diocese of Osma, i. 291. Made canon of the cathedral of Osma, 292. St. Dominic Loricatus; his auste- rities; death of, at Bologna, i. 207. St. Dominic, preaches a crusade against the Albigenses; his cha- racter, i. 303. His cruelties; at- tends the fourth council of La- teran, 304. Adopts the rule of St. Augustine for his order; mar- vels related of, 305. He founds a monastery at Madrid and another at Segovia, 306.
St. Dunstan, born in Wessex, iii.
261. His infancy, 262. His in- troduction to the court of Athel- stan; the extraordinary manner in which he was expelled from court, 263. His conversion, 264. His monastic profession, 265. A legend respecting; obtains the abbacy of Glastonbury, 266. His dream; appointed to the bishop- rics of Worcester and London,
He succeeds Odo in the primacy, 268. Portents respect- ing the birth of, 269. Another account of his early life, 270. Vindication of, from various charges, 276. Pontificate of, 277. His efforts for the reformation of the clergy, 286. Accusation of murder brought against, 289. Death of, in 988, 295. Character of, 296.
St. Ebba, abbess of Coldingham, iii. 215.
St. Edilthryda, the queen of Egfrid, abbess of the monastery of the isle of Ely, iii. 211.
St. Edmund, archbishop of Canter- bury; his education; his reluct- ance to accept of the primacy; his election to the primacy, iv. 256. His attempts at the re- formation of the church, 257. His voluntary exile; his death,
St. Elfleda, abbess of Whitby, iii. 215.
St. Elizabeth, surnamed of Scho- nage, born in 1130, in the diocese of Trèves, ii. 299. Her pretended revelations; her death, 301. St. Elphege, a monk of the monas- tery of Deerhurst; his early life; he founds a monastery at Bath, iii. 298. Consecrated bishop of Winchester, 300. His auste- rities, 301. His elevation to the dignity of primate, 302. His sufferings and death, 304.
St. Emmeren of Poitiers, ii. 193. St. Ermenilda, abbess of the mo- nasteries of Sheppey and Ely, iii. 215.
St. Ethelberga, abbess of the abbey of Barking, iii. 234. St. Ethelgiva, iii. 234.
St. Ethelwold, a native of Win- chester; his early life; obtains the deaconry of Glastonbury; he founds the monastery of Abing- don; made bishop of Winchester, iii. 282.
St. Eusebius of Vercelli, i. 226. St. Faustus, the biographer of St. Maur, ii. 173.
St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans, i. 211. His conver- sion, 212. His rule, 213. He founds the severest monasteries, 214. His conversation with the sultan; his death, 216. The order of the Brethren of Peni- tence founded by, 308. The order of nuns, subject to St. Clair, founded by, 309. St. Frideswitha, iii. 217.
St. Gall, the monk of, author of a history of Charlemagne; extract from his works, ii. 256. Another extract from the work of, exhi- biting the credulity and super- stition of the country, 258. St. Généviève, ii, 169. St. Germanus, ii. 169.
St. Gilbert of Sempringham, born in 1083, presented with the two livings of Sempringham and Tor. rington, iv. 241. He founds thir- teen double monasteries, 243. His honourable conduct towards Tho- mas à Becket, 245.
St. Godelef, one of the most cele- brated saints of the Netherlands; her marriage with a Flemish no- bleman; becomes the victim of ill usage, ii. 298. Her violent death, 299.
St. Goimbold, abbot of Winchester, iii. 234.
St. Gregory the Great, born at Rome in 540; his parentage; he founds six monasteries in Sicily, i. 192. His mission to Constan- tinople; his homilies on the book of Job, 193. His epistle to Narses; his pastoral, 194. The first who introduced singing into the ser- vice of the church, 195. death (in 604); his dialogues on the life and miracles of St. Bene- dict, 195. His character of the Lombards, 229.
St. Gregory of Tours, his original name, Georgius Florantius; his early life, ii. 230. Elected bishop of Tours in 573; he defends St. Pretextatus against Chilperic and Fredegund; his character and death in 595, 232. His works, 233. An extract from his Historia Ecclesiastica, 234. Extracts from his works, illustrative of his de- scriptive powers, 235. Further extracts; his family, 238. His account of the sedition and ex- cesses committed in the nunnery of Poitiers, 239.
St. Gregory of Utrecht, the man- ner in which he became connect- ed in the fortunes of St. Boniface, ii. 263. An anecdote character- istic of his moderation; his death in 776, 204.
St. Guthlake; his character, iii. 219.
His predatory career, 220. His eremetical life, 222. A legend respecting his friendship with Ethelbald, king of Mercia; his death in 714, 226.
St. Hilda, abbess of Whitby, iii. 214.
St. Hildegarde, ii. 301. St. Hildelita, abbess of the monas- tery of Barking, iii. 215. St. Ina, king of the West Saxons; laws of, iii. 70. Founds the monastery of Glastonbury; abdi- cation of, 232. His death, 233. St. Isidore, his collection of ecclesi- astical laws, i. 245.
St. Lawrence, archbishop of Can- terbury, troubles during the primacy of, iii. 166.
St. Leger, bishop of Autun, ii. 15. St. Libanus, an English missionary, ii. 204.
St. Louis, king of France, marriage of, with Margaret of Provence; his character, ii. 57. Joins the crusade in Syria; his captivity, and ransom; he assumes the cross a second time, 58. His code of laws, 74.
St. Ludger, a missionary of the Frisans and Saxons; a story re- lated of the mother of, 206. His death, in 809, 207.
St. Nilus of Calabria, a Greek by
birth; his mode of life, i. 205. His death, 207.
St. Norbert, founder of the order
of the Premonstratensians, born in 1080, in the duchy of Cleves; anecdote of, ii. 294. Elected archbishop of Magdeburg; seve- rity of his institute, ii. 296. St. Odo, archbishop of Canterbury, iii. 234. His early life; his ex- emplary conduct, 255. His seve rity towards himself and others, 257. His death and character, 259.
St. Oldegario, a native of Barcelona, first archbishop of Tarragona; his death, i. 289.
St. Oswald, king of Bernicia, iii. 181.
St. Oswald, canon and dean of Win- chester, resigns his dignity and becomes a Benedictine monk, iii. 279. Made archbishop of York, 281. He founds the monastery of Ramsey, 288. His death, in 992, 285.
St. Oswin, king of Deira, his tragical fate, iii. 182.
St. Otho, bishop of Bamberg, a na- tive of Swabia, ii. 276. His mis- sion to Pomerania; return of, to Bamberg, 277.
St. Peter Damian, born at Ravenna, in 1007; becomes bishop of Ostia, and a cardinal; his fame as an expounder of the Holy Scriptures, i. 209. His death, in 1072, 210. His character, 211. St. Peter of Verona, i. 218. St. Peter Celestin, founder of the order which bears his name, i. 221.
St. Plegmund, archbishop of Can- terbury, iii. 234.
St. Pretextatus, bishop of Rome; his dubious character; his con- duct with respect to Brunehild, ii. 170. His assassination, 171. St. Raymundo of Peñafort, a native of Barcelona; his virtue and learning; obtains the degree of doctor and a professor's chair at Bologna, i. 314. Assumes the habit of the Dominicans; draws up the constitution for the Order of Mercy; becomes confessor of Don Jayme, 315. His works; his death, 316.
St. Raymundo Lully, born in Ma- jorca; his early life, i. 315. His conversion; he composes his first work, the Ars Major, or Gene- ralis, 316. He translates several treatises into Arabic; his reasonings on the Trinity with the Moors, 317. He is stoned to death by the Moors; his charac- ter by himself, 318.
St. Robert, surnamed de Molême, a gentleman of Champagne, founds the order of the Cistercians, at Citeaux, ii. 283. Return of, to Molême; his death, 284.
St. Robert, a Cistercian monk, abbot of a Cistercian monastery near the Tyne, ii. 235.
St. Romuald, founder of the order of Camaldula, i. 196. His conver- sion, 197. His austerities, 198. His death, 199. St. Rusticola, an extract referring to the close of her life, ii. 189. St. Seine (Sequanus) founds a mo- nastery in Burgundy; an extract of his life, ii. 190.
St. Sexburga, abbess of the monas- teries of Sheppey and Ely, iii. 215. St. Stephen, the third abbot of the Cistercians, the first dignitary who instituted chapters general, ii. 282.
St. Sturm, a native of Bononia, founds the monasteries of Hirs- field and Fulda, ii. 205. St. Swithin, bishop of Winchester, iii. 234.
St. Thomas à Becket, born in Lon- don, in 1117; his parentage; his education; rapidity of his pro- motion; presented with the chan- cellorship, iv. 172. His vast and magnificent household; his fami- liarity with the king; his em $ bassy to Paris; surprise of the French at his princely retinue, 173. His able and beneficial ad- ministration, 174. His appoint- ment to the see of Canterbury, 175. He resigns the chancellor- ship, 176. A remarkable change takes place in his conduct and character, 177. His austerities, 178. He institutes proceedings for the recovery of the church lands, 179. He incurs the royal dis- pleasure, 182. Deprived of the manor of Rye and the castle of Berkhampstead, 183. He consents to observe the "customs;" he refuses to sign the constitutions of Clarendon, 186. Is summoned to appear before the parliament at Northampton; the charges brought against him; his defence, 188. His answer to the bishops who came to preach submission to him, 193. His magnanimity and courage at his trial, 194. His flight, 197. His reception by Louis VII. of France, 198. His reception by the pope; assumes the Cistercian habit in the mo- nastery of Pontigny; confiscation of his estates, 199. The sentence of confiscation and banishment pronounced against all who were connected with him by blood or friendship, 200. An unfortunate change takes place in his habits, opinions, and feelings, 201. His interview with Henry II., in a meadow near Freitoille in Tou- raine, 203. Duplicity of Henry II. towards him, 204. Return of, to England, 208. Murder of, 210. A few observations on the cir- cumstances which led to his fate, 213. Canonisation of, 221. St. Thomas Aquinas, born in 1225, in the Campania of Naples; his illustrious birth, i. 247. Becomes a Dominican monk; he explains the Book of Sentences, by Peter the Lombard, 248. Obtains the degree of doctor; his treatise in defence of his order; refuses
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