[253] Emer, Vita. ap. Mab. Act. SS. tom. iii. 199.
[254] Bede's Eccles. Hist. b. iii. c. xxv.
[255] "Idemque vir Dei quatuor Evangelica et Bibliothecam pluresque libros Novi et Veteris Testamenti cum tabulis tectis auro purissimo et pretiosis gemmis mirabili artificio fabricatis ad honorem Dei." Dugdale's Monast. vol. ii. p. 133.
[256] In 665 he was raised to the episcopacy of all Northumbria.
[257] He was deprived of his bishopric in the year 678, and the see was divided into those of York and Hexham. But for the particulars of his conduct see Soame's Anglo. Sax. Church, p. 63, with Dr. Lingard's Ang. Sax. Church, vol. i. p. 245; though without accusing either of misrepresentation, I would advise the reader to search (if he has the opportunity), the original authorities for himself, it is a delicate matter for a Roman or an English churchman to handle with impartiality.
[258] His Saxon name was Winfrid, or Wynfrith, but he is generally called Boniface, Archbishop of Mentz.
[259] The mere act of baptizing constitutes "conversion" in Jesuitical phraseology; and thousands were so converted in a few days by the followers of Ignatius. A similar process was used in working out the miracles of the Saxon missionary. He was rather too conciliating and too anxious for a "converting miracle," to be over particular; but it was all for the good of the church papal, to whom he was a devoted servant; the church papal therefore could not see the fault.
[260] Ep. iii. p. 7, Ed. 4to.—Moguntiæ, 1629.
[261] Ep. iv. p. 8.
[262] Ep. xiii.