This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...a great traveller. In company with his brother, he visited Rome. Wunebald stayed there, and after some years joined Boniface in Thuringia. Willibald, however, set off with two other friends, and journeyed to Sicily, Ephesus, Cyprus, and Palestine. They bathed in the Jordan, and stayed for a time in Jerusalem, where ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...a great traveller. In company with his brother, he visited Rome. Wunebald stayed there, and after some years joined Boniface in Thuringia. Willibald, however, set off with two other friends, and journeyed to Sicily, Ephesus, Cyprus, and Palestine. They bathed in the Jordan, and stayed for a time in Jerusalem, where they visited the holy places, and among them the Holy Sepulchre, "a square house cut out of the rock with a chapel above it." After a tour of seven years Willibald returned to Rome, and, in obedience to a request of Gregory III., went to help Boniface. Some of these English fellow-workers Boniface consecrated as bishops, and others he set over monasteries. Lul, or Lullus, who had been brought up from childhood Their work in the abbey of Malmesbury, and had worked with in Germany. J 'him for many years, he made his coadjutor at Mainz; Burchard he consecrated Bishop of Wiirzburg; Willibald, the traveller, Bishop of Eichstatt; and Wittan, Bishop of Buraberg in Hesse. Wunebald became abbot of Heidenheim, where he was succeeded by his sister, whose English name Walburh appears as Walpurga, and has, in some strange way, become connected with witches' festivals, but there were perhaps other saints of the same name, and one of them may have given her name to the Walpurgis night. Lul's aunt Chunihilt and her daughter Bertgith, both skilled in secular learning, Boniface made teachers and probably abbesses in Thuringia; Chunitrud taught the Scriptures in Bavaria, Tecla he appointed abbess of Kitzingen, and Lioba abbess of Bischofsheim on the Tauber. As abbess, Lioba gathered round her a large number of disciples, and many of them were chosen to rule other German convents. She ever had the Scriptures in her hands, studied them diligently and lectur...
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