His body was taken to Tynemouth, and was buried in the church of the Blessed Virgin, near that of S. Oswin.

FOOTNOTES:

[58] S. Eucher, De laude Eremi, p. 342.

[59] So far Montalembert's Monks of the West, Vol. I., Book III.

[60] There is not space to give an account of S. Fursey's vision, which seems to have been the original of Dante's Divina Commedia.


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