A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

710 A Source Book for Ancient Church History(f) Bede, Hist. Ec., III, 18. (MSL, 95:144.)Sigebert became king of the East Angles about 631 and died637. The facts known of him are briefly recorded in DCB.[650]At this time the kingdom of the East Angles, after the death ofEarpwald, the successor of Redwald, was subject to his brotherSigebert, a good and religious man, who long before had beenbaptized in France, whilst he lived in banishment, flying from theenmity of Redwald; when he returned home and had ascended thethrone he was desirous of imitating the good institutions whichhe had seen in France, and he set up a school for the young tobe instructed in letters, and was assisted therein by Bishop Felix,who had come to him from Kent and who furnished him withmasters and teachers after the manner of that country.(g) Bede, Hist. Ec., IV, 2. (MSL, 95:173.)Theodore arrived at his church the second year after his consecration,on Sunday, May 27, and held the same twenty-oneyears, three months and twenty-six days. Soon after he visited allthe islands, wherever the tribes of the Angles dwelt, for he waswillingly entertained and heard by all persons. Everywhere hewas attended and assisted by Hadrian, and he taught the right ruleof life and the canonical custom of celebrating Easter. 278 Thiswas the first archbishop whom all the English Church obeyed.And forasmuch as both of them were, as has been said, well readin sacred and secular literature, they gathered a crowd of scholarsand there daily flowed from them rivers of knowledge to waterthe hearts of their hearers; and together with the books of theholy Scriptures they also taught them the arts of ecclesiasticalpoetry, astronomy, and arithmetic. A testimony of which is thatthere are still living at this day [circa A. D. 727] some of their278 V. supra, § 100.