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Title: The saints and missionaries of the Anglo-Saxon era : First (and second) series
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Adams, Daniel Charles Octavius
Subjects: Anglo-Saxons -- Religion Saints, English Great Britain -- Church history
Publisher: Oxford (etc.) : Mowbray & co.
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Malmesbury remarks on it that "though Wulstan
"was not a proficient in profane literature, yet in
"all learning which befitted his office, and in the
"rules of ecclesiastical discipline he was extremely
"well versed. However, be this as it may, a Council
was called at Westminster, and Wulstan was cited to
appear, there to deliver up to the King and the
Archbishop the insignia of his office. And how did
he escape ? How came it to pass that, doomed as he
was to disgrace, he not only retained his dignity, but
was also received into the king's confidence and
friendship? The result of this days proceedings was
so strange and unexpected that we can scarcely
wonder that it was believed of old to have been due
to miraculous intervention. Here is the old story, as
given by William of Malmesbury. On the day in
question, he tells us, Wulstan appeared before the
Council assembled in Westminster Abbey, and was
there ordered by Archbishop Lanfranc to resign the
insignia of his See. The man of GOD stood up,
calm and undisturbed, and expressed his willingness
to resign an office of which he never thought himself
worthy. He would therefore gladly give up his
Pastoral Staff; but to whom? Not to Archbishop
Lanfranc, who had not given it him, but to the King
(Edward) from whom he had received it. So saying
he proceeded to the tomb of the holy Confessor,
and invoking him as a witness of the truth of his
words, affixed the staff into the recumbent stone


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